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The column "My Judgment" explains that a parental leave once applied for cannot basically be unilaterally canceled, even if the personal circumstances of the employee change before the start, except in special hardship cases. #Elternzeit #Arbeitsrecht #Bundesarbeitsgericht (translated)

The debate about the membership of government officials in Freemason lodges and their need for disclosure has been reignited by recent rulings from Strasbourg and London, which show different approaches to balancing privacy and transparency. #Freimaurerei #Privatleben #ÖffentlichesRecht (translated)

The article by Steffen Martus discusses how social media has become a public tribunal that encourages spontaneous judgment and shaming, using the example of a beach chair affair involving the politician Philipp Amthor and the associated wave of outraged reactions. #SocialMedia #Politik #Hasskultur (translated)

Florian Warweg wrote that the EU maintains the sanctions against the German journalist Hüseyin Dogru. According to Warweg, the EU Council does not consider the presumption of innocence to apply to Dogru, and press freedom is only granted to him in "good faith." The Council judges this itself, wrote Warweg, and described it as absurd. He also referred to his current article on the Dogru case. https://t.co/aXby9zecEX #Pressefreiheit #Rechtsstaat #Sanktionen (translated)

Zara Riffler described the decision as good news and wrote that the administrative court had dismissed a lawsuit against the ban on prayers at a Berlin high school. According to her, the principal had prohibited Islamic prayers after pressure on non-Islamic students had increased. According to Riffler, the ruling could allow schools to prohibit the demonstrative practice of religious rituals on school grounds. The court justified this with the interest in maintaining school peace. She wrote that the ruling was not yet legally binding. https://t.co/Egwu6cjZBh #Bildung #Religionsfreiheit #Gerichtsurteil (translated)

The Higher Regional Court of Cologne plans to award the abuse victim of a woman who was severely sexually abused by her foster father and priest during her childhood a record compensation of between 500,000 and 600,000 euros, thereby correcting the original ruling of the Cologne District Court. #Missbrauch #Schmerzensgeld #KatholischeKirche (translated)

The Bundestag has passed a reform for emergency care, while the EU heads of state and government are discussing the EU budget in Brussels and, according to a ruling by the European Court of Justice, banks are obliged to initially refund the lost money to victims of account fraud. #Notfallversorgung #EUHaushalt #Kontobetrug (translated)

"The procedure has impressively shown how Iran exports its terror to Germany. This has been expressly determined by the recognizing Senate." "This ruling must not go without political consequences. The Iranian ambassador must be expelled immediately! The presence at the embassy must be drastically reduced to a minimum." Beck also said: "This ruling must not go without political consequences. The Iranian ambassador must be expelled immediately! The presence at the embassy must be drastically reduced to a minimum." #Antisemitismus #Iran #Terrorismus (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann recalled that the conservative politician Sir David Amess was stabbed to death on October 15, 2021, during a constituency surgery at a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She named the perpetrator as Ali Harbi Ali, a 26-year-old Somali with a British passport. Amess died at the scene; the act is classified as an Islamist terrorist attack. Kussmann wrote that Ali Harbi Ali was later sentenced to life in prison. During the trial, it became known that he had planned further attacks on politicians, including Michael Gove, whom he considered harmful to Muslims. The jury reached their verdict after 18 minutes. When the verdict was announced, Ali refused to stand. Amess is survived by his wife and five children, Kussmann wrote. #Terrorismus #Politik #Gedenktag (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann recalled that the conservative politician Sir David Amess was stabbed on October 15, 2021, during a public meeting in a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. The 26-year-old Ali Harbi Ali, a Somali with a British passport, had repeatedly stabbed Amess; he died at the scene. Kussmann described the act as an Islamist terrorist attack. In the later trial, Ali Harbi Ali was sentenced to life in prison. It became known that he had planned further attacks on politicians, including on Michael Gove, because he was harming Muslims. According to Kussmann, the jurors took 18 minutes to reach their verdict; at the sentencing, Ali refused to stand up. Amess left behind a wife and five children. #Gedenken #Terrorismus #Politik (translated)

Florian Warweg wrote that he did not want to share a certain form of whataboutism. At the same time, he asked how Friedrich Merz evaluates his own meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu after the Chancellor, through the government spokesperson, described the visit of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to Vladimir Putin as "immoral." According to Warweg, Netanyahu is wanted by international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. Merz based his moral judgment of Schröder's meeting on the "immeasurable suffering of civilian victims" in the war, Warweg wrote. This argument could also be applied to Merz's encounters with Netanyahu: At the meeting in December 2025, the number of identified dead children in the Gaza Strip was already at 20,179, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), along with 10,427 dead women. Warweg also referred to a meeting between Merz and Netanyahu on February 12, 2024, in Jerusalem, when Merz was still the opposition leader. The night before, the Israeli Air Force had targeted a refugee camp in Rafah; more than 100 people, including numerous children, lost their lives in the attack. #Whataboutism #Kriegsverbrechen #Moralität (translated)