Daily Archives: 3. April 2019


03.04.2019 - 22:36 [ junge Welt ]

Milde für Waffenhändler

Wegen illegaler Lieferung von Pistolen nach Kolumbien: Manager von SIG Sauer zu Bewährungsstrafen verurteilt

03.04.2019 - 22:24 [ Reuters ]

Brazil‘s president calls Nazis leftists after Israel Holocaust museum visit

Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said “there is no doubt” that Nazism was a leftist movement, just after visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum.

03.04.2019 - 22:02 [ Trend.az ]

Plane carrying Iranian minister makes emergency landing

The emergency landing was caused by a problem in the engine of the aircraft. On instructions of President Hassan Rouhani, the Minister went to the Lorestan Province affected by floods. The Iranian minister will continue the flight on another plane.

03.04.2019 - 21:15 [ KBS ]

Verteidigungsministerium äußert erstmals Bedauern über Jeju-Aufstand

Der stellvertretende Verteidigungsminister Suh Choo-suk wird heute einen Gedenkraum für die Opfer des Jeju-Aufstandes auf dem Gwangwhamun-Platz in Seoul besuchen und seine Anteilnahme äußern.

03.04.2019 - 20:55 [ Granma ]

Jetzt ist SIP an der Reihe

Es soll niemand glauben, dass die Interamerikanische Pressegesellschaft (SIP) ein Synomym für Journalismus ist und noch viel weniger, dass sie die Presse vertritt. Sie hat vielmehr den Auftrag, die Interessen der Eigentümer der großen Medienmonopole zu verteidigen

03.04.2019 - 20:21 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

IT-Sicherheitsgesetz 2.0: Wir veröffentlichen den Entwurf, der das BSI zur Hackerbehörde machen soll

Das ist ein Interessenkonflikt, denn Polizei und Geheimdienste wollen Sicherheitslücken ausnutzen, beispielsweise für Staatstrojaner. Die Bonner Behörde hat bereits staatliche Schadsoftware mitprogrammiert, aber öffentlich eine Beteiligung abgestritten.

Der neue Entwurf verbietet dem BSI nicht, Sicherheitslücken geheim zu halten und an Hacker-Behörden wie das BKA oder den BND zu geben. In Zukunft soll die Behörde eine Rolle beim „Hack Back“ spielen.

03.04.2019 - 20:21 [ BrexitCentral ‏/ Twitter ]

BREAKING: MPs PASS by 315 votes to 310 (maj: 5) Second Reading of Yvette Cooper’s EU Withdrawal (No. 5) Bill which seeks to mandate the PM to seek an Article 50 extension.

Committee Stage follows immediately

03.04.2019 - 20:10 [ BrexitCentral / Twitter ]

After a mere hour’s debate, MPs are voting on the Second Reading of Yvette Cooper’s EU Withdrawal (No. 5) Bill which seeks to mandate the PM to seek an Article 50 extension

03.04.2019 - 19:54 [ Arj Singh, Deputy Political Editor @HuffPostUK ‏/ Twitter ]

One MP leaves the Tory 1922 Committee meeting early complaining that Liam Fox is giving them a “dry” lecture about trade as if they don’t know anything about it

03.04.2019 - 19:45 [ Chris White ‏/ Twitter ]

Majority 1 All eyes on 2nd Reading, potential Reasoned Amendment and 3rd Reading votes this afternoon. Expect extremely tight votes…

03.04.2019 - 19:43 [ Chris White ‏/ Twitter ]

The 14 Conservative MPs who backed the Business Motion to allow debate on the Letwin-Cooper Bill:

Bebb
Clarke
Djanogly
Freeman
Greening
Grieve
Gyimah
Harrington
Lee
Letwin
Morgan
Sandbach
Spelman
Vaizey

03.04.2019 - 19:30 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Deutschlands Partner-Sultanat

Deutschland intensiviert seit Jahren seine Beziehungen zu dem aktuell heftig kritisierten Sultanat Brunei. Brunei stößt international auf Protest, seit Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah angekündigt hat, die Todesstrafe für außerehelichen Geschlechtsverkehr und für Homosexualität einzuführen. Das entsprechende Gesetz ist am heutigen Mittwoch in Kraft getreten. Die Hohe Kommissarin der Vereinten Nationen für Menschenrechte, Michelle Bachelet, hat es als „grausam und unmenschlich“ verurteilt.

03.04.2019 - 19:01 [ TicToc by Bloomberg / Twitter ]

JUST IN: U.K. Parliament has voted 312-311 to allow debate on a bill to stop a no-deal Brexit

03.04.2019 - 18:59 [ Parliamentlive.tv ]

House of Commons Wednesday: 3 April 2019

Meeting started at 11.33am

03.04.2019 - 18:57 [ Jakub Krupa ‏/ Twitter ]

Commons decide to allow the proceedings on Cooper No Deal Bill, winning by 312 to 311. Majority of ONE.

03.04.2019 - 18:41 [ Parliament.co.uk ]

Business for Wednesday 03 April 2019

3. EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) (NO. 5) BILL: SECOND READING (COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE AND THIRD READING MAY ALSO BE TAKEN)

Until 10.00pm (if the Business of the House Motion is agreed to)

03.04.2019 - 18:36 [ Conservative Home ]

Chris White: The Letwin-Cooper Bill would have constitutional consequences far beyond Brexit

On rare occasions, in times of great urgency, the Commons has concertinaed legislation in a single day. The Official Secrets Act was passed in just a few minutes in 1911 – apparently the Minister explained “in two sentences…that the measure should be passed”, whilst Committee, Report and Third Reading sailed by without a single intervention. Clearly this is a different situation, but the precedent exists for all stages to be debated in a day – certainly other Bills have been debated in a very short space of time.

03.04.2019 - 18:24 [ Jolyon Maugham / theGuardian.com ]

The Cooper-Letwin bill to stop no-deal Brexit is a dangerous distraction

The bill was published on Tuesday and the idea is that today the Commons will carve out parliamentary time for it to pass through the house and even – if all goes to plan – start its progress though the Commons. Let’s assume, ambitiously, it can clear the House of Commons on Thursday and the House of Lords on Friday and receive royal assent the same day.

03.04.2019 - 18:21 [ UK House of Commons ‏/ Twitter ]

MPs are debating a business of the House motion relating to @YvetteCooperMP‘s European Union (Withdrawal) (No5) Bill. If the business motion is passed, all Commons stages of the Bill will take place today. #EUWithdrawal5Bill Watch:

03.04.2019 - 18:09 [ Mirror.co.uk ]

Jeremy Corbyn says crunch Brexit talks with Theresa May went ‚very well‘

After the talks, which lasted just over two hours, Jeremy Corbyn told the Mirror that they had gone „very well“ and that he expected to sit down again with the PM soon.

Talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were took place in the Prime Minister‘s office in the Commons.

03.04.2019 - 18:04 [ BBC Politics ‏/ Twitter ]

Ian Blackford: „In all eventualities, there must be a people‘s vote“ SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru, Greens and the Independent Group issue joint statement saying they will push for a public vote to be included in #Brexit legislation

03.04.2019 - 17:53 [ Theo Usherwood, Political Editor of @LBC / Twitter ]

Tory MPs suggesting indicative vote at 5pm at the 1922 committee on the PM’s leadership. (They can’t hold a formal process because December’s vote gives May a one year grace period). Asked one rhetorically: “A lot of anger this afternoon.” “No,” he replied. “It’s fury.”

03.04.2019 - 17:51 [ Telegraph Politics / Twitter ]

Liam Fox will address the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs at 5pm. Reports are emerging that MPs are suggesting holding their own ‚indicative vote‘ on the Theresa May‘s leadership

03.04.2019 - 17:49 [ theSun.co.uk ]

Tory MPs launch bid to kick Theresa May out TODAY after soft Brexit bid

Sources said the MPs believe desperate action is needed before Downing Street thrashes out a soft Brexit compromise with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. One said: “They’re saying this is about the survival of the party itself.”

The ballot wouldn‘t be officially binding – but if Mrs May lost it could speed up her departure from No10.

03.04.2019 - 17:46 [ Alex Tiley ‏/ Twitter ]

#pmqs felt slightly surreal today, Corbyn & May going after each other almost felt like a symbolic highlighting of their differences to their own benches, with the most blarbed attacks being directed at both of them by the Conservative back benches.

03.04.2019 - 17:26 [ BBC Politics / Twitter ]

„No deal on 12 April at midnight has become a scenario that looks more and more likely,“ says @EU_Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, telling MEPs that finding an alternative „depends entirely on the UK“

03.04.2019 - 17:19 [ Sky News ]

LIVE: Second minister quits as Theresa May meets Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit talks

The latest as the PM faces a Tory backlash after calling for national unity and offering talks with Labour to agree a Brexit plan.

03.04.2019 - 17:14 [ Chris Heaton-Harris ‏/ Twitter ]

After much contemplation, I have decided to leave Theresa May‘s Government. I‘m grateful to the PM for giving me the opportunity to serve the UK and I will continue to represent my constituents as the MP for Daventry.

03.04.2019 - 11:59 [ Tom Harwood / Twitter ]

No Deal is now the most popular option in the country.

03.04.2019 - 11:58 [ YouGov / Twitter ]

…although Britons are less convinced of a national government‘s chances of success. 34% think it would probably help resolve Brexit, but 41% think it probably wouldn‘t

03.04.2019 - 11:56 [ YouGov.co.uk ]

What do the public think might break the Brexit deadlock?

Should the EU decide they’ve had enough of the Brexit process and refuse to give the UK an extension, then the country divides between the 44% who would want to leave without a deal and the 42% who would seek to stay in the Union.

03.04.2019 - 11:07 [ Kevin Gosztola / Medium.com ]

It’s Time To Reckon With Clinton Democrats Who Pushed Russiagate

Like the vast majority of the country, the Democratic Party establishment was in complete and utter shock when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Almost all of the most influential media pundits were convinced there was no way Hillary Clinton would lose.

03.04.2019 - 10:47 [ Nigel Adams, Member of Parliament / Twitter ]

Following yesterday’s cabinet, this morning I’ve been to Downing Street & resigned my position as UK Govt Minister for Wales & Govt Whip. I’m grateful to the PM for the opportunity to serve as a Minister since 2017 & will continue to serve my constituents from the backbenches.

03.04.2019 - 10:34 [ Spiked ]

Our unrepresentative democracy

The Brexit pile-up in parliament really is unlike anything we’ve witnessed in modern times. The government and MPs are refusing to implement the biggest democratic mandate in British political history, the clearest and most weighty demand ever issued to them by the public. And yet they are still straining to agree how best to bury it for good.

03.04.2019 - 09:51 [ Sky News / Twitter ]

Brexit minister Robin Walker tells @skysarahjane on #Sunrise that @Theresa_May will begin Brexit talks with @jeremycorbyn today. He says working with the opposition is „not comfortable“ but it‘s right for the „national interest“. Brexit updates here:

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03.04.2019 - 09:33 [ James Forsyth, Political editor of The Spectator and Sun columnist / Twitter ]

Understand that government wants this whole process, including any Commons votes, done this week. The next 72 hours are going to be quite something

03.04.2019 - 09:29 [ Sky News ]

May prepared to rip apart Tory family and put Brexit in Labour‘s hands

„It‘s really kicking off,“ one Brexiteer told me in the aftermath of Mrs May‘s statement.

„This cannot be allowed, that cabinet has to move against May. The 1922 [backbench committee] chairman [Sir Graham Brady] has to go and tell her she has to go.“

The Brexiteers can‘t stage of a vote of confidence – she secured a year‘s grace after winning the confidence vote last December, but they can try to destabilise her government.

03.04.2019 - 09:19 [ BBC Radio 4 Today / Twitter ]

Jeremy Corbyn is „somebody we can do business with“ says Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin #r4today

03.04.2019 - 08:49 [ Sky News ]

Mutiny! Tory MPs urge cabinet to oust May over Corbyn Brexit talks

She is likely to face an onslaught from Conservative Brexiteers at Prime Ministers Questions this afternoon after her controversial proposal to negotiate with the Labour leader.

Ominously for the PM, Boris Johnson has joined the Brexiteer backlash, which has seen some Tory MPs urge cabinet ministers to stage a mutiny and move to oust her immediately.

03.04.2019 - 08:42 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

All eyes on the ‚Furious Fourteen‘: May faces cabinet resignations as she shuns ‚clear majority‘ of ministers who backed No Deal and sets up Soft Brexit surrender talks with Jeremy Corbyn instead

– Theresa May made a dramatic shift as she promised new Brexit talks with Jeremy Corbyn to ‚break the logjam‘
– She said the Government wanted to strike a new deal on the final UK-EU deal both parties could live with
– If talks with Mr Corbyn fail then May promised to hand the decision to Parliament to find a way forward
– Warned there is no hope of changing the divorce treaty – a hint she is abandoning hard Brexiteers and the DUP
– Brexit Tories led by Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg exploded with rage at May‘s apparent concessions
– May said she wants to persuade the EU to agree to the new timetable next week and leave the EU on May 22
– Brussels has been clear any delay longer than May 22 would require Britain to hold EU elections next month
– May‘s announcement came after a marathon seven-hour Cabinet meeting with ministers locked inside No 10

03.04.2019 - 08:34 [ ITV.com ]

Prime Minister risks splitting her party to avoid no-deal Brexit in 10 days

„There was a very significant shift to a softer Brexit,“ said a senior minister.

„There is no turning back“.

And there you have captured the magnitude of the risk the PM is taking.

03.04.2019 - 08:31 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Theresa May ignores Cabinet support for no-deal Brexit as she turns to Jeremy Corbyn for help

Theresa May ignored the will of her Cabinet by ruling out a no deal Brexit and choosing to extend Article 50 as she asked Jeremy Corbyn to help her find a compromise.

03.04.2019 - 08:21 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

How seven hours of rows and recrimination at Cabinet produced a surprising shift towards a soft Brexit

It was billed as the ultimate Brexit showdown and in the end the seven-hour marathon cabinet meeting ended in rows and recriminations after a cabinet majority for no deal was ignored in favour of a customs union consensus with Jeremy Corbyn.

The fact that the epic political pow wow started with a brief delay should have acted as an omen.

03.04.2019 - 08:16 [ Spectator ]

Revealed: the Cabinet bust-up over May’s soft Brexit plan

(2.4.2019) When Theresa May stood in 10 Downing Street earlier this evening and announced that she would try and break the Brexit logjam by liaising with Jeremy Corbyn, she gave the impression of speaking with Cabinet backing. However, the full story is now emerging. In a stormy seven-hour meeting, minister after minister protested at her proposal to use Labour votes for a softer Brexit ( potentially a customs union) in order to pass a deal. As many as 14 ministers said they’d rather keep no deal on the table. It seems that only about ten supported her final plan.

03.04.2019 - 08:11 [ theSun.co.uk ]

‚SHE‘S F****D IT‘: Brexiteer fury after Theresa May turns to ‘Marxist’ Corbyn to hammer out soft Brexit with another delay betraying Leave voters

The PM effectively ruled out No Deal as she vowed to work with Jeremy Corbyn to get a deal through the Commons

03.04.2019 - 08:07 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Mays Statement: „Vielleicht der entscheidende Wendepunkt“

Die britische Premierministerin Theresa May will um eine weitere Brexit-Verschiebung bitten und sich mit der Opposition abstimmen – das kündigte sie am Abend an. ARD-Korrespondentin Annette Dittert sieht darin einen bedeutenden Schritt im Brexit-Drama: Mays Statement könnte „ein oder der entscheidende Wendepunkt“ sein.

03.04.2019 - 07:59 [ New York Times ]

With Trump, NATO Chief Tries to Navigate Spending Minefields

He flew across the ocean to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary with the largest and most important member of the military alliance. So to outsiders it appeared to be an awkward moment on Tuesday for Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, as he sat stiffly by while President Trump criticized German defense spending and predicted that the United States would get along with Russia.

03.04.2019 - 07:46 [ Haaretz ]

Putin Is Pulling for Netanyahu as He Did for Trump – but This Time in Broad Daylight

Thursday’s sudden summit in Moscow appears to be aimed at the crucial ‚Russian vote‘ and is meant to outflank both Lieberman and Gantz