The Prime Minister will answer questions from lawmakers for an hour today. This may be the last time Olaf Scholz holds this role in the Bundestag. At the same time, Congress seems to be blocked. Although the agenda is rarely full, few decisions will be made. Senior correspondents Rasmus Buchsteiner and Gordon Repinski discuss why not much is happening in the federal parliament until new elections in February.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Rowle (CDU) appears as a guest in the 200-second interview. He talks about the states’ dissatisfaction with the implementation of the announced asylum diversion and the need for better protection of citizens, on which he believes the federal government has an obligation.
Senior political columnist Jonathan Martin discusses President Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden, concerns about restructuring the FBI in the Donald Trump era, and how former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell is left empty-handed by Trump’s distribution of posts Discuss about.
And: the EU is downgrading the protection status of wolves, which may secretly please Ursula von der Leyen.
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