German trade union (DGB) Confederation demands more diversity instead of better pay:
Public service: more diversity action needed
Not even half of the services in this country offer diversity measures, as a representative Forsa survey on behalf of the DGB has shown. According to this, only 43 percent of the civil servants surveyed say that such measures exist at their place of work. 77 percent of respondents are quite open to diversity in working life, among those under 35 it is even 82 percent. Elke Hannack, Deputy DGB Chairwoman, said at the Schöneberger Forum on Wednesday in Berlin:
"Public employers need to launch more equal opportunities programs and non-discriminatory cooperation, as well as providing the necessary money and staff. But diversity and diversity programs must not be a fig leaf for the positive self-portrayal of employers. Diversity is not a fluke, but a constant process that needs to be regularly reviewed and readjusted. And it is important to take all employees with you.
In an aging and more colorful society, it is more important than ever for the civil service to do justice to it. Promoting diversity in the services also means showing signs of anti-democratic currents that our society faces. The public service should serve as a role model here. It is not just a question of equal opportunities, but also of interest to public employers, who depend on a wide range of knowledge and skills. "
source: dgb
http://www.dgb.de/presse/++co++fb69cd1a-ed67-11e8-a6fb-52540088cada
Social-Democrats and Left-Party continue privatisation of schools in Berlin (Germany) despite popular initiative:
Report presented - popular initiative warns against school privatization
In January of this year, the initiatives "Kommuningut in BürgerInnenhand" and "Attac" launched a popular initiative against the school construction offensive planned by the Senate. Because a large part of the projects by the state-owned housing company Howoge, so a private enterprise to be supported, the activists fear a privatization of school buildings.
...
source: rbb
https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2018/11/berlin-schule-neubau-volksinitiative-warnt-vor-privatisierung.html
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rbb24.de%2Fpolitik%2Fbeitrag%2F2018%2F11%2Fberlin-schule-neubau-volksinitiative-warnt-vor-privatisierung.html
Comment on the Berlin School Building too much secrecy in the state government
New friction within the red-red-green state government is emerging: the Greens move away from the previous plans for "school construction offensive" from. They want to pay the new buildings and renovations as far as possible with billions from the state budget.
This Finance Minister Matthias Kollatz means that the project will succeed only if the state-owned housing company Howoge loans in the amount of about 1.7 billion euros and takes over decades as a landlord opposite the districts. Only then could Berlin bypass the debt brake. A risky game.
...
source: berliner zeitung
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik/meinung/kommentar-zum-berliner-schulbau-zu-viel-heimlichkeit-in-der-landesregierung-31623270
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Employers want immigration law later this year
Employer President Kramer has urged the grand coalition on the planned immigration law to hurry. He criticized plans to abolish Hartz IV.
...
source: tagesspiegel
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ingo-kramer-arbeitgeber-wollen-zuwanderungsgesetz-noch-dieses-jahr/23667472.html
Austria bans symbols of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gray Wolves, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Hamas and the military part of Hezbollah:
Beat against Gray Wolves and Muslim Brotherhood
The new Symbols Law will pass the Council of Ministers on Wednesday and will be adopted by the National Council in mid-December.
Because political Islam as well as left and right-wing radicalism in Austria should have no place, the government is now serious and extends the ban on the use of extremist symbols clearly: In addition to the prohibition of extremist symbols in the law is explicitly stated that gestures that contradict the basic democratic values are punishable. Both concrete symbols and gestures will be specified in the regulation.
Currently, the law only includes symbols of the IS, al-Qaeda, and its affiliates and successor organizations.
In the future, the ban should concern symbols of the following further groupings:
...
source: heute at
https://www.heute.at/politik/news/story/Schlag-gegen-Graue-Woelfe-und-Muslimbruderschaft-55689943
INTERNAL POLICY - Prohibition of extremist symbols on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers
In addition to the terrorist organizations Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda, the Federal Government now wants to ban the symbols of extremist organizations, especially those from Islamic countries, whose goals contradict the basic values ??of the Republic of Austria and social plurality. The review did not only criticize the Islamic Religious Community (IGGÖ).
The corresponding amendment to the Symbols Act will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. In December, she is to be decided in the National Council.
Affected are the Muslim Brotherhood, the Gray Wolves, the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Hamas, the military part of Hezbollah, but also the Croat-fascist Ustasha. Also symbols of sub and successor organizations of all named and in general of "groupings, which are specified in legal acts of the European union as terrorist associations, corporations or other organizations" may not be shown, carried or distributed. Who exactly affected here, the government can set by regulation. One does not want to turn against religious symbolism.
...
source: salzburger nachrichten
https://www.sn.at/politik/innenpolitik/verbot-von-extremisten-symbolen-am-mittwoch-im-ministerrat-61176367
CHRISTMAS MARKET - Breitscheidplatz becomes a test site for the defense against terrorism
Traffic chaos in City West: Two years after the terrorist attack, the Christmas market is being protected more massively than ever before.
Berlin. A group of Japanese people are happily turning back and forth between half-finished wooden stalls, unadorned Christmas trees and stacked concrete bollards. An elderly man with a hat is standing next to him and asks frankly curiously: "That was here with the truck, right?" - and looks interested in the waist-high concrete barriers around the Breitscheidplatz. Next Monday, the Christmas market will open again. For the 35th time, or, after a new count, for the second time - since the terrorist attack of 19 December 2016, in which 12 people died and more than 70 were injured.
...
source: morgenpost
https://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/article215848691/Breitscheidplatz-wird-zum-Testgelaende-fuer-die-Terrorabwehr.html
France: MEPs decide law against "Fake News"
In the future, election campaigns in France will be better protected against "fake news". But a proposed package of laws is being heavily criticized.
Despite fierce criticism from the opposition, the French National Assembly has passed a package of laws against deliberately dispersed false information during election campaigns. The deputies voted on Tuesday evening majority for two drafts - before the law had failed in the Senate. The deputies now had the last word. President Emmanuel Macron spoke out earlier this year for new rules against "fake news" during election campaigns.
...
source: heise
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Frankreich-Abgeordnete-beschliessen-Gesetz-gegen-Fake-News-4227977.html?wt_mc=rss.ho.beitrag.atom
France passes controversial laws against «Fake News»
The French National Assembly voted by a clear majority on Tuesday evening in the final reading for President Emmanuel Macron's plans to fight "Fake News". The French Senate had rejected the controversial bills.
...
source: nzz
https://www.nzz.ch/international/frankreich-beschliesst-umstrittene-gesetze-gegen-fake-news-ld.1438279
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzz.ch%2Finternational%2Ffrankreich-beschliesst-umstrittene-gesetze-gegen-fake-news-ld.1438279
Shams Ul-Haq warns of radicalization in mosques:
Radicalization in Grazer mosques?
Author Shams U-Haq moved undercover in Graz mosques. The Styrian police and the Constitutional Service call U-Haq's claims "obsolete", city councilor Kurt Hohensinner is surprised by the number of mosques mentioned.
"Your laws do not interest us!" The Pakistani-German author Shams Ul-Haq wrote his latest book on mosques in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, where he was traveling with a false identity. Ul Haq describes his perception of "'modern' hate preachers": they would not call for jihad, but would direct the faithful targeted in the direction of a desired radical Islam. "Outspoken savvy psychologists" are these preachers.
In Austria, Ul-Haq - who had already smuggled himself as a supposed refugee in German asylum reception centers - spent six months in Graz. Specifically, he visited mosques Tawhid in the Herrgottwiesgasse, Subul El Salman in the wholesale market street and the Afghan mosque in the Ungergasse. The city has become a hotspot of the radical Islamist scene, says Ul-Haq. The radical mosques are partly not officially run, are usually no different than the back room. The believers would be radicalized in combination of Koran and Islam teaching as well as in the evening and night prayer.
...
source: die presse
https://diepresse.com/home/innenpolitik/5533070/Radikalisierung-in-Grazer-Moscheen
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdiepresse.com%2Fhome%2Finnenpolitik%2F5533070%2FRadikalisierung-in-Grazer-Moscheen
note:
"Criticism of Islam means by no means attacking Muslims, but protection from his inhuman outrages directed against women, homosexuals, the self-thinkers and so-called infidels - including millions of Muslims. "
Samuel Schirmbeck
France on strike: Mass ‘Yellow vest’ protest against rising fuel prices continues
source: rt
OPINION: Macron beware - France's 'yellow vest' rebels will not retreat easily
The unpredictable and leaderless "yellow vest" rebellion in France might appear to be on the wane but it's entering a danger zone and the French government would be mistaken to underestimate the volatile movement, not least because it could lead to an ugly "battle of Paris" at the weekend, writes John Lichfield.
...
source: the local
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181121/what-happens-next-the-french-government-must-not-underestimate-the-yellow-vests
What is happening with global inequality?
With domestic inequalities and “populism” taking center stage, the changes in global income inequality have understandably moved out of the focus. My access to the data—many of them still best obtained from the World Bank especially for poorer countries not covered by LIS—has also diminished since I left the World Bank. But one can still put together a quick update (thanks also to the contribution by Christoph Lakner) that covers the period up to 2013. One small technical point is worth making at the outset. When one compares, as I will do here, 2013 results with the past, going back to 1988, one faces the following choice: either (1) to use the best 2000-2013 numbers which are all based on detailed micro data and 100 percentiles of the population from each country, plus better income data from India, or (2) to compress these numbers into country-deciles to make them more comparable with the 1988 data (when indeed we had much less detailed information with many fewer fractiles). I decided here to go with the solution No. 2—but if I were to compare a more recent period only (say, after 2000), I would have preferred to use No. 1.
...
source: Branko Milanovic
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-is-happening-with-global-inequality.html
Public service: more diversity action needed
Not even half of the services in this country offer diversity measures, as a representative Forsa survey on behalf of the DGB has shown. According to this, only 43 percent of the civil servants surveyed say that such measures exist at their place of work. 77 percent of respondents are quite open to diversity in working life, among those under 35 it is even 82 percent. Elke Hannack, Deputy DGB Chairwoman, said at the Schöneberger Forum on Wednesday in Berlin:
"Public employers need to launch more equal opportunities programs and non-discriminatory cooperation, as well as providing the necessary money and staff. But diversity and diversity programs must not be a fig leaf for the positive self-portrayal of employers. Diversity is not a fluke, but a constant process that needs to be regularly reviewed and readjusted. And it is important to take all employees with you.
In an aging and more colorful society, it is more important than ever for the civil service to do justice to it. Promoting diversity in the services also means showing signs of anti-democratic currents that our society faces. The public service should serve as a role model here. It is not just a question of equal opportunities, but also of interest to public employers, who depend on a wide range of knowledge and skills. "
source: dgb
http://www.dgb.de/presse/++co++fb69cd1a-ed67-11e8-a6fb-52540088cada
Social-Democrats and Left-Party continue privatisation of schools in Berlin (Germany) despite popular initiative:
Report presented - popular initiative warns against school privatization
In January of this year, the initiatives "Kommuningut in BürgerInnenhand" and "Attac" launched a popular initiative against the school construction offensive planned by the Senate. Because a large part of the projects by the state-owned housing company Howoge, so a private enterprise to be supported, the activists fear a privatization of school buildings.
...
source: rbb
https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2018/11/berlin-schule-neubau-volksinitiative-warnt-vor-privatisierung.html
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rbb24.de%2Fpolitik%2Fbeitrag%2F2018%2F11%2Fberlin-schule-neubau-volksinitiative-warnt-vor-privatisierung.html
Comment on the Berlin School Building too much secrecy in the state government
New friction within the red-red-green state government is emerging: the Greens move away from the previous plans for "school construction offensive" from. They want to pay the new buildings and renovations as far as possible with billions from the state budget.
This Finance Minister Matthias Kollatz means that the project will succeed only if the state-owned housing company Howoge loans in the amount of about 1.7 billion euros and takes over decades as a landlord opposite the districts. Only then could Berlin bypass the debt brake. A risky game.
...
source: berliner zeitung
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik/meinung/kommentar-zum-berliner-schulbau-zu-viel-heimlichkeit-in-der-landesregierung-31623270
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.berliner-zeitung.de%2Fpolitik%2Fmeinung%2Fkommentar-zum-berliner-schulbau-zu-viel-heimlichkeit-in-der-landesregierung-31623270
Employers want immigration law later this year
Employer President Kramer has urged the grand coalition on the planned immigration law to hurry. He criticized plans to abolish Hartz IV.
...
source: tagesspiegel
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ingo-kramer-arbeitgeber-wollen-zuwanderungsgesetz-noch-dieses-jahr/23667472.html
Austria bans symbols of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gray Wolves, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Hamas and the military part of Hezbollah:
Beat against Gray Wolves and Muslim Brotherhood
The new Symbols Law will pass the Council of Ministers on Wednesday and will be adopted by the National Council in mid-December.
Because political Islam as well as left and right-wing radicalism in Austria should have no place, the government is now serious and extends the ban on the use of extremist symbols clearly: In addition to the prohibition of extremist symbols in the law is explicitly stated that gestures that contradict the basic democratic values are punishable. Both concrete symbols and gestures will be specified in the regulation.
Currently, the law only includes symbols of the IS, al-Qaeda, and its affiliates and successor organizations.
In the future, the ban should concern symbols of the following further groupings:
...
source: heute at
https://www.heute.at/politik/news/story/Schlag-gegen-Graue-Woelfe-und-Muslimbruderschaft-55689943
INTERNAL POLICY - Prohibition of extremist symbols on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers
In addition to the terrorist organizations Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda, the Federal Government now wants to ban the symbols of extremist organizations, especially those from Islamic countries, whose goals contradict the basic values ??of the Republic of Austria and social plurality. The review did not only criticize the Islamic Religious Community (IGGÖ).
The corresponding amendment to the Symbols Act will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. In December, she is to be decided in the National Council.
Affected are the Muslim Brotherhood, the Gray Wolves, the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Hamas, the military part of Hezbollah, but also the Croat-fascist Ustasha. Also symbols of sub and successor organizations of all named and in general of "groupings, which are specified in legal acts of the European union as terrorist associations, corporations or other organizations" may not be shown, carried or distributed. Who exactly affected here, the government can set by regulation. One does not want to turn against religious symbolism.
...
source: salzburger nachrichten
https://www.sn.at/politik/innenpolitik/verbot-von-extremisten-symbolen-am-mittwoch-im-ministerrat-61176367
CHRISTMAS MARKET - Breitscheidplatz becomes a test site for the defense against terrorism
Traffic chaos in City West: Two years after the terrorist attack, the Christmas market is being protected more massively than ever before.
Berlin. A group of Japanese people are happily turning back and forth between half-finished wooden stalls, unadorned Christmas trees and stacked concrete bollards. An elderly man with a hat is standing next to him and asks frankly curiously: "That was here with the truck, right?" - and looks interested in the waist-high concrete barriers around the Breitscheidplatz. Next Monday, the Christmas market will open again. For the 35th time, or, after a new count, for the second time - since the terrorist attack of 19 December 2016, in which 12 people died and more than 70 were injured.
...
source: morgenpost
https://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/article215848691/Breitscheidplatz-wird-zum-Testgelaende-fuer-die-Terrorabwehr.html
France: MEPs decide law against "Fake News"
In the future, election campaigns in France will be better protected against "fake news". But a proposed package of laws is being heavily criticized.
Despite fierce criticism from the opposition, the French National Assembly has passed a package of laws against deliberately dispersed false information during election campaigns. The deputies voted on Tuesday evening majority for two drafts - before the law had failed in the Senate. The deputies now had the last word. President Emmanuel Macron spoke out earlier this year for new rules against "fake news" during election campaigns.
...
source: heise
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Frankreich-Abgeordnete-beschliessen-Gesetz-gegen-Fake-News-4227977.html?wt_mc=rss.ho.beitrag.atom
France passes controversial laws against «Fake News»
The French National Assembly voted by a clear majority on Tuesday evening in the final reading for President Emmanuel Macron's plans to fight "Fake News". The French Senate had rejected the controversial bills.
...
source: nzz
https://www.nzz.ch/international/frankreich-beschliesst-umstrittene-gesetze-gegen-fake-news-ld.1438279
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzz.ch%2Finternational%2Ffrankreich-beschliesst-umstrittene-gesetze-gegen-fake-news-ld.1438279
Shams Ul-Haq warns of radicalization in mosques:
Radicalization in Grazer mosques?
Author Shams U-Haq moved undercover in Graz mosques. The Styrian police and the Constitutional Service call U-Haq's claims "obsolete", city councilor Kurt Hohensinner is surprised by the number of mosques mentioned.
"Your laws do not interest us!" The Pakistani-German author Shams Ul-Haq wrote his latest book on mosques in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, where he was traveling with a false identity. Ul Haq describes his perception of "'modern' hate preachers": they would not call for jihad, but would direct the faithful targeted in the direction of a desired radical Islam. "Outspoken savvy psychologists" are these preachers.
In Austria, Ul-Haq - who had already smuggled himself as a supposed refugee in German asylum reception centers - spent six months in Graz. Specifically, he visited mosques Tawhid in the Herrgottwiesgasse, Subul El Salman in the wholesale market street and the Afghan mosque in the Ungergasse. The city has become a hotspot of the radical Islamist scene, says Ul-Haq. The radical mosques are partly not officially run, are usually no different than the back room. The believers would be radicalized in combination of Koran and Islam teaching as well as in the evening and night prayer.
...
source: die presse
https://diepresse.com/home/innenpolitik/5533070/Radikalisierung-in-Grazer-Moscheen
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdiepresse.com%2Fhome%2Finnenpolitik%2F5533070%2FRadikalisierung-in-Grazer-Moscheen
note:
"Criticism of Islam means by no means attacking Muslims, but protection from his inhuman outrages directed against women, homosexuals, the self-thinkers and so-called infidels - including millions of Muslims. "
Samuel Schirmbeck
France on strike: Mass ‘Yellow vest’ protest against rising fuel prices continues
source: rt
OPINION: Macron beware - France's 'yellow vest' rebels will not retreat easily
The unpredictable and leaderless "yellow vest" rebellion in France might appear to be on the wane but it's entering a danger zone and the French government would be mistaken to underestimate the volatile movement, not least because it could lead to an ugly "battle of Paris" at the weekend, writes John Lichfield.
...
source: the local
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181121/what-happens-next-the-french-government-must-not-underestimate-the-yellow-vests
What is happening with global inequality?
With domestic inequalities and “populism” taking center stage, the changes in global income inequality have understandably moved out of the focus. My access to the data—many of them still best obtained from the World Bank especially for poorer countries not covered by LIS—has also diminished since I left the World Bank. But one can still put together a quick update (thanks also to the contribution by Christoph Lakner) that covers the period up to 2013. One small technical point is worth making at the outset. When one compares, as I will do here, 2013 results with the past, going back to 1988, one faces the following choice: either (1) to use the best 2000-2013 numbers which are all based on detailed micro data and 100 percentiles of the population from each country, plus better income data from India, or (2) to compress these numbers into country-deciles to make them more comparable with the 1988 data (when indeed we had much less detailed information with many fewer fractiles). I decided here to go with the solution No. 2—but if I were to compare a more recent period only (say, after 2000), I would have preferred to use No. 1.
...
source: Branko Milanovic
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-is-happening-with-global-inequality.html
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