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One Child-Many Parents: Community of Responsibility for Multi-parent Rainbow Families

Discussion Paper on the "Responsibility Community" of the Traffic Light Coalition Agreement

The major reform of family law planned by the federal government includes the new legal institution of the "community of responsibility". Associations in the queer context have great expectations of the new legal institute, which is supposed to legally secure the new family form of multi-parent rainbow families. What do we know about multi-parent rainbow families? What needs to be taken into account in the legal design?

Elisabeth Hoffmann
January 23, 2023
Monitor
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Path to COP28

Lessons for International Climate Policy

No significant progress was made at COP27, with the exception of the planned fund to compensate damage and loss. Therefore, the question increasingly arises whether the UNFCCC process should be flanked more strongly in future by multilateral initiatives, for example within the framework of the G7 and G20, in order to develop more momentum.

André Algermißen, Kevin Oswald, Sabina Wölkner
December 28, 2022
Sustainability Monitor
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Europe and the Christian Orthodoxy

Statements given by Thomas Rachel (MdB) and Archpriest Radu Constantin Miron

Outside Europe, anti-Western narratives are often disseminated in Orthodox circles, whereas in Europe, concerns of Christian Orthodoxy are not uncommonly being overlooked. This problem of lack of mutual understanding is particularly evident in geopolitical conflicts with religious elements, such as the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine or restrictions on religious freedom in Turkey. What can European politics and the Orthodox churches do to improve this relationship?

Thomas Rachel, Radu Constantin Miron
December 6, 2022
Monitor
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Der Weg zur Ablösung der Staatsleistungen an die Kirchen

Wie die verfassungsrechtliche Pflicht zur Ablösung der Staatsleistungen nach Art. 140 GG i. V. m. Art. 138 Abs. 1 WRV zu erfüllen ist.

Laut dem Koalitionsvertrag der Regierungsparteien soll im Dialog mit den Ländern und den Kirchen ein Grundsätzegesetz auf Bundesebene erlassen werden, dass als fairer Rahmen für die Ablösung der Staatsleistungen dienen soll. Dieses Vorhaben bezieht sich auf das – bis heute unerfüllte – verfassungsrechtliche Gebot zur Ablösung der Staatsleistungen in Art. 140 GG i. V. m. Art. 138 Abs. 1 WRV. Doch was sind Staatsleistungen überhaupt und wie können die verfassungsrechtlichen Anforderungen an deren Ablösung erfüllt werden?

Prof. Dr. Michael Germann
December 1, 2022
Monitor

Diversity and democracy in the Conservative Party

Over time, the Conservatives have come to look and sound a little more like the country they aspire to run.

The British Conservative Party can lay claim to be one of the oldest and most successful political parties in the world for many reasons. Perhaps the most important is its near-legendary ability to adapt in order to reflect the society in which it operates.  It does this mainly by adjusting to changes in the economy and socio-cultural mores – some, that it helps to shape, some which it has little choice but to accommodate itself to.  Policy, however, is not everything. 

Tim Bale
November 7, 2022
Monitor
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Decarbonising the transport sector in the Global South

Possibilities, challenges, and reciprocities on the road to climate-neutral mobility

In Germany, the shift towards electromobility is underway, the advantages, but also the shortcomings of public transportation have become part of the public debate ever since the nine-euro ticket emerged, and mobility apps are gaining increasing popularity in cities. All this is supposed to contribute to the decarbonisation of transport. But what is the situation in the countries that are expected to experience the greatest population growth in the coming decades and thus have a steadily increasing need for mobility?

Lukas Lingenthal, Alex Aung Khant
November 2, 2022
Sustainability Monitor
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and its geopolitical significance

About the world's largest regional political organisation with economic potential

Since its foundation in 2001, the number of members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has increased from originally six to nine. Belarus is to be admitted as a member in 2023, Afghanistan and Mongolia have observer status. While in the early years the focus was on the security policy dimension, the SCO increasingly developed into a regional forum with different priorities: economy, trade, technology, culture, energy and tourism.

Jan Senkyr
October 25, 2022
Monitor
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Wahlanalyse der Landtagswahl in Niedersachsen am 9. Oktober 2022

Bericht zum endgültigen Ergebnis, zu den wesentlichen Bestimmungsgründen sowie zur Wählerwanderung und Sozialstruktur

Die SPD bleibt in Niedersachsen nach Verlusten stärkste Kraft und liegt vor der CDU, die ebenfalls Verluste hinnehmen muss. Grüne und AfD verzeichnen Stimmengewinne, während die FDP an der Fünf-Prozent-Hürde scheitert. Ausgehend von den Wahltagsbefragungen und Umfragen im Vorfeld der Wahl wird die Rolle der Spitzenkandidatinnen und -kandidaten, der wichtigsten politischen Themen und Parteikompetenzen für das Wahlergebnis analysiert.

Dr. Viola Neu, Dominik Hirndorf
October 10, 2022
Monitor Election and Social Research

Protection here and now?

The Temporary Protection Directive for displaced persons from Ukraine in the long run

The Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) is an EU legislative instrument for dealing with situations of mass influx of displaced persons. It was introduced in 2001, yet it was not activated until 2022. Activating the TPD was the right choice for the situation at hand, yet some issues remain unresolved six months into its debut.

Jana Lajsic
September 29, 2022
Monitor
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Deutschlands Sozialstaat kann von qualifizierter Erwerbszuwanderung profitieren

Auswirkungen von Arbeitsmigration auf Sozialstaat und die öffentlichen Haushalte – Ein Kurzüberblick über den Forschungsstand

Die Bundesregierung hat Reformen bei der Steuerung von Arbeitsmigration angekündigt. Eine „Chancenkarte“ soll die geltenden Regelungen liberalisieren und das bisher erforderliche Qualifikationsniveau absenken. Der vorliegende Text gibt einen Überblick über die Fachdebatte zu Auswirkungen von Arbeitsmigration auf den Sozialstaat sowie den Effekten unterschiedlicher Qualifikationsprofile. Er formuliert, was sich hieraus für die Steuerung von Erwerbszuwanderung ergibt.

Dr. Annette Ranko, Christina Thelen
September 28, 2022
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