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No, it's not. The hurdles to ban a political party in Germany are extremely high. Only three institutions can request that the Bundesverfassungsgericht (similar: supreme court) rules on a party's compatibility with the liberal-democratic basic order. The government, the Bundestag (cf. House of Representatives), or the Bundesrat (cf. Senate). There's no majority for such a process in either of these chambers or the Government. One of the main reasons is the fear that the court will not rule to ban the AfD and that the court proceedings would just damage the democratic parties and the constitutional order.

I can't say I blame them. That this process to ban the AfD would be successful is not very likely. The decision would have to be made by the court with a 2/3 majority and several points need to be proven:

They have to be unconstitutional: "Parties which, by their objectives or the behavior of their supporters, aim to impair or eliminate the free democratic basic order or to endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany are unconstitutional."

However, simply being unconstitutional is not enough: "Rather, there must be an actively combative, aggressive attitude toward the existing order. This attitude must systematically undermine its functioning and, in the process, seek to eliminate it itself." (From the proceedings of the ban of the communist party)

In addition, the party must intend to impair or eliminate the free democratic basic order. Elimination means "the abolition of at least one of the essential elements of the free democratic basic order or its replacement by another constitutional order or another system of government".

Furthermore, they also need to have the means to be able to reach that goal.

Because of these high hurdles, only two such bans were successful in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the 50s, a Nazi Party and the Communist Party were banned. No party was sussessfully banned since then.

Das geht doch besser

Better article

"don't know" it's right there in the article

No polling institute would make such stupid mistakes

We might need a car at some point in the next 12 months, that's why I look online from time to time for a used BEV to get a feeling how much money we will need. I had the feeling that ID4s usually lose more value over time than ID3s, but I didn't analyse it much further than that. Roughly, the numbers I saw were new ones are 30k€ for an ID3 and 40k€ for an ID4 while you apparently can get both used for 20k€.

What's your opinion on used ID4s from 2021ish? Used ones are surprisingly cheap to get and I'm a little unsure why that is

You can't just build a hotel in a residential area, that usually goes against zoning laws which Airbnb circumvents

Why's the disc not flat? Did some conspiracy nut draw this?

No, they didn't. It was a toss up in all polls right till the end with a slight tendency towards Trump. The polls were pretty much on the nose

The shadows are on the move. The question is not how do we stop them, the question is what do we want?

Ah, there it is: the one joke Americans are able to make when talking about Germany.

Thanks for fulfilling the quota, I was worried Nazis won't be mentioned once. Thank you for your service 🫡

What's the significance of 230?

There's never such a thing as "enough" as long as Trump is still president but it's impressive and a good start. And it gives hope especially to those protesting that they are not alone and resistance is not futile.

Now, Europeans, what was you saying?

I know that's a somewhat rhetorical question, but that's how Der Spiegel reports on it (Google Translated):

Mass protests against the US government

They are now in resistance against Trump II.

Donald Trump is massively pushing ahead with the restructuring of US democracy. Resistance has been limited so far. Now people are taking to the streets nationwide, in Washington, New York, Chicago. They are warning the Republican: "Hands off!"

"We shall overcome," the protest brass band sings upstairs at the Parkman Bandstand, and demonstrators below sing along in chorus. Thousands of people gathered at 11 a.m. this Saturday morning in Boston Common Park, around the venerable bandstand. To protest the Trump administration. And to have fun. Even though it's five degrees cold and rain is forecast.

Over a thousand registered demonstrations

When the brass band plays "O when the saints," some of the demonstrators even dance along. Almost everyone here has brought a homemade sign. "Hands off our democracy," it reads, "President not King," or "There isn't a big enough sign to list all the reasons I'm here."

"Hands off" is the motto of this rally and the approximately 1,200 other protest events that have been registered for this Saturday: in every US state, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Organizers had previously estimated that there could be more than 250,000 participants nationwide. Initially, given the large number of events, there was no reliable information on the total number of participants.

• In the US capital, Washington, thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument near the White House.

• In New York, too, despite the drizzle, thousands demonstrated against Trump and his close advisor Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire head of the electric car company Tesla. In Bryant Park, they held up signs with slogans like "Pull the plug on Elon" or "I can only write this because there was a Department of Education."

• There were also larger protests in other cities – such as Atlanta, Miami, and Chicago.

And in Boston, too. "Hands Off" is intended to be the first nationwide mass protest against Trump II. Many participants believe it is high time. Because so far, public resistance in the USA has been limited

First they come for the scientists

Here in Boston, where the American Revolution began a good 250 years ago, frustration is great, especially because the Trump administration is targeting science. Boston, with its world-famous elite universities like MIT and Harvard and its biotechnology companies, is the knowledge mecca of the USA. And the new administration has not only cut research funding for various scientists. It is also putting pressure on Harvard and other universities to allow interference with their independence.

Pamela, 61, who does not want her last name published, wrote "First they come for the scientists" on her sign – in reference to the quote by Martin Niemöller: "When the Nazis took the communists, I kept silent, I wasn't a communist."

She says she is not a scientist herself, but Trump, Musk, and Robert Kennedy Jr. are on the verge of undermining the USA's exceptional position in research. "We have made such great strides and breakthroughs in recent years," says Pamela, but now politics is putting everything at risk: "our economy, scientific progress, our health."

Gravestones for Democracy

Although it has started to rain, the crowd is growing. Thousands are moving toward City Hall. "No, No, No. Donald Trump has got to go," the people chant, and the trumpeters and trombonists of the brass band play along to the beat. The demonstration passes the Granary Burning Ground, the historic cemetery where heroes of the American Revolution such as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere are buried

A dozen gray gravestones made of construction foam hang on the cemetery fence today. They bear inscriptions such as "Here lies Free Speech," "In Memory of International Alliances," "Here lies Education for All," and "In Memory of Climate Science."

Caitlin de Angelis, 41, and her family designed them. They worked on the gravestones for a week, says the historian, who has researched this cemetery herself. "Donald Trump is attacking our civil rights, our economy, our foreign neighbors," says de Angelis. "It's important to show the whole world that so many people here are against it—in our entire country." Her parents are currently at a demonstration in Maine.

Whether in Providence, Rhode Island, or Portsmouth, New Hampshire: in several other cities here in New England in the northeastern United States, "Hands Off" protests with several thousand participants are taking place almost simultaneously, despite the weather.

"Hands Off" chants the crowd in Boston as Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu appears in the rain. "This is our city," Wu shouts, "and you will never get us down." When she finishes, the people sing "We shall not be ruled." Shortly afterwards, the demonstration is over, and the demonstrators crowd into the subway. Soaked, but inspired.

With material from the agencies

I was against shutting down already written off power plants early while coal power plants were still running. I was in favor of shutting down coal first, yes.

Geothermal energy is possible anywhere but not economical everywhere. Building wind and PV and building infrastructure to save the energy is more economical in many cases.

it's okay in some amounts since you're getting radiation doses every day even not living near anything nuclear).

And people get cancer every day. I don't share their argument that NPPs in normal operation are a risk, but OP is somewhat right, there's no safe radiation dose, just one we deem safe enough mainly because it doesn't significantly raise our risk of cancer compared to the natural exposure. And NPPs in normal operation emit less radiation than for example coal fire plants.

FFS, people are stupid.

There was a huge hysteria about nuclear when Fukushima happened. A clear majority was for immediate action. Merkel's coalition government would have ended if she hadn't done a 180 on nuclear and decided to shut down nuclear as soon as possible, which was 2023. I was against shutting it down back then but I thought you can't go against the whole population, so I get why they did it. People didn't change their mind until 2022. Nobody talked about reversing that decision in all these years when there was actually time to reverse the decision.

Now, that the last reactor is shut down, the same people that were up in arms in 2011 are now up in arms that we don't have nuclear. Building new plants will cost billions and take decades and nuclear doesn't work well with renewables because of its inflexibility. It makes no sense at all. It was a long-term decision we can't just back away from. What's done is done.