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Hamburg has to save money due to falling tax revenues and increasing expenses, which also affects state universities. Since the red-green coalition, science has been recognized and promoted as the basis for future prosperity, which means that the University of Hamburg has the title of 'University of Excellence' and receives funding for clusters of excellence.
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HafenCity University will take legal action if no agreement is reached with the Senate.
Likely · Within months
The Citizenship's Science Committee will not make an immediate decision on the 2027/28 double budget.
Very likely · Within days
Federal Education Minister Karin Prien (CDU) has criticized the Heidenau city council's decision not to install any more stumbling blocks in public spaces and described it as a scandal. She emphasized that stumbling blocks make Jewish life visible and restore dignity. The majority of the city council voted for an application from the CDU and AfD. Stolperstein inventor Gunter Demnig also expressed incomprehension and criticized the decision as unworthy.

After right-wing extremist election successes in Saxony-Anhalt, the middle class is demanding that asylum policy be listened to and tightened, while the left-wing victory in Berlin leads to anti-Semitic accusations. At the same time, the housing shortage is becoming visible through the eviction of an old tenant in Madrid, while Pope Leo XIV is holding mass in France in front of over half a million people. In Heidenau, the CDU and AfD are allegedly working together to prevent the laying of new stumbling blocks in memory of Nazi victims.
US broadcaster CNN has been excluded from President Donald Trump's planned trip to Tennessee and replaced by Lindell TV, run by Trump-backed entrepreneur Mike Lindell. The press pool changes regularly and supplies other media with material. CNN, MSNBC and Politico had previously been granted access to the White House after several days of stay-at-home orders after a federal court temporarily lifted the ban.
73 of 158 newly elected representatives in the Berlin Parliament are moving into the House of Representatives for the first time. At 22, Asya Senyüz from the Left Party is the youngest member, followed by Richard Gamp (CDU, 23) and Klara Schedlich (Greens, 26). The proportion of women is 39 percent.
The US government has denied CNN permission to film President Donald Trump's trip to Tennessee as part of the TV pool, despite a judge previously restoring CNN, MSNBC and Politico's access to the White House. The measure could violate the judge's ruling, with legal experts arguing that the disinvitation violates the spirit of the order.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) confirms the federal government's reform course in the areas of pensions, health, care and taxes. At the same time, the DGB is calling for rallies against the social policy course in 15 major cities. The DOSB is deciding between Munich and Cologne-Rhine-Ruhr as Germany's bid for the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Olympics, with Munich narrowly leading, but the final decision rests with the IOC.