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The mood at the moment is anything but good, michaela kaniber (CSU) admitted right at the start of her speech. She also does not want to paint anything in rosy colors. The situation had already been discussed at the meetings held at the "zur sonne" inn assembled farmers also little use. Although there were no demonstrations in lonnerstadt during the minister’s visit, as there had been the day before in kulmbach, there was still a lot of criticism. Nevertheless, the discussion was heated, and the minister had to deal with a lot of criticism.

The farmers have rough problems: forest ban on grassland, orchards as biotopes, dung ordinance and the designation of red areas, reduction of pesticides, water margins and more are giving them a hard time. "The farmer can no longer manage all this in his brain", a farmer from schirnsdorf found. In the process, farmers feel they are being left alone. For all that "the farmers’ association is currently holding back heavily", was heard in lonnerstadt.

The federal government and the eastern german states are organizing the 1. July launches 40 million euro fund to pay for therapeutic treatment, counseling, and pension replacement benefits. A monthly cash payment is not planned for the time being, said the parliamentary secretary of state in the federal family ministry, hermann kues (CDU), in berlin on monday.

The reappraisal of GDR home education has shown that violence and coercion were part of everyday life for many infants, children and adolescents. For this suffering, the former home children could never be compensated. "The missed opportunities in life cannot be undone materially."The fund, which is set up for five years, should rather be seen as a request for apology, emphasized mecklenburg-vorpommern’s social minister manuela schwesig (SPD).

He referred to the decisions of the EU summit at the end of june, which stipulates that negotiations must be concluded by the end of 2012. German finance minister wolfgang schauble, however, interprets the decisions of the heads of state and government differently. The summit decision only talks about a review of the commission’s proposals by the end of the year. "We have complied with the request, we have already reviewed it"."

The supervisory authority is to be based at the european central bank (ECB) and, in the final stage, will control 6,000 money houses in the 17 euro countries. It is also the prerequisite for ailing institutions to be able to access loans directly from the euro rescue fund. The plans for a banking union, which would include not only banking supervision but also a common deposit guarantee fund, were only presented by the EU commission on wednesday.

In view of the impending shortage of fodder for livestock in many regions of germany, livestock farmers can count on rapid emergency aid.

Federal agriculture minister julia klockner (CDU) spoke in berlin of an alarming situation and promised rapid support – also in order to avoid emergency slaughtering. The states are now to quickly present aid programs, which the federal government will then support.