They looked at the last projection and compared it to this one. Survey journalism can get annoying.

It is still a shift to the right from the current parliament. The green block will lose substantially and the social democrats as well. Only the left slightly gains some seats in the current projection.

Which is more of a problem with the expensive methods, that are used right now. With CRISPR there would be a market for other viable mutations, which are not patented.

Even more reason to legalize precise gene editing. It’s cheaper than the other two methods, because you don’t need years to create something usable. Cheaper means more companies can play around with it, creating more competition and probably better results, not just better resistance to the pesticide the same company sells.

CRISPR is actually much cheaper than the methods used now, so there could be more participants in the market.

Depending on the scenario you can find any number between 30 and 100cm in our lifetime.

Is the hill tall enough?

But that’s not, what they were asked. They were asked about their perception of bullying, so also bullying of others, not only of themselves. I agree, that it would be much better evidence, if they would have just asked if the students get bullied.
My problem with the perception thing is that everyone tells you, that school uniforms help against bullying and then you get school uniforms. So now you might feel, that there’s less bullying, because you have this foregone conclusion, that it must work.

I only know about the german manufacturers and they would be ready to increase their production but did not receive the orders yet.

Both studies focus on the perception of the issue, not on hard numbers on bullying. What I was looking for are, if cases of bullying drop when school uniforms are introduced.

He specifically wrote “tried to lynch”.

Can you link these studies? I would be interested.

So you got rid of one reason to bully, so bullies shifted to other stuff. How does this help now? Are there some studies, that prove school uniforms lead to quantitative less bullying? If yes, I would be interested in that.

From current polls: a centrist government with the S&D and the Greens (close) or Renew. On the right, EPP+ECR+RE would also have no majority, so they would need ID as well, which she kinda ruled out with this statement. From what I’ve heard Renew is often at odds with the German FDP, which I take as a good sign.

Conservatives always try to poach the hottest current topic from other blocks. Last election everyone was concerned about climate change and the green parties got quite some share in the polls, so conservatives campaigned on green policies. This year anti-immigration and right wing bullshit is widespread, so they will campaign on these topics. For them it’s more about conserving their political power than actual policies.

You are represented by the parties you vote for.

I still wonder why people think, that they vote for the commission president in the european elections. You vote for a party and then the parliament elects the president. If the front runner of the winning faction does not get a majority in parliament, they won’t be elected.

No, Germany loves to watch Eurovision, we don’t care, that our own country sucks all the time. By now it’s more of a meme and people are betting, how bad it’s gonna be this year.

Really? What’s on the ballot in your country? If it is the party, then you vote for the party and with this you vote parliamentarians on the list into the european parliament. I get that the media reporting muddled this process, because frontrunners make for a more interesting coverage, but that is not how it works at all.

I think, that the phrase “ignoring the election results” is too harsh. You vote for parties, not persons. Of course, they usually nominate their frontrunners for the election campaign, but if they can’t ensure a majority in the elected parliament, what else should they do?
VdL definitely was a sketchy back room deal, I am talking more about the general principle here.