THE WEEKEND IN MUNICH
Peace doves and Russia flags 40 heads of government and almost 100 ministers meet hermetically sealed in the city for the security conference. The demonstrators are clearly in the majority. Left, right, lateral thinking – it’s not easy to keep an overview at the weekend.
Baerbock: “I look like I’m going to a wedding” On the fringes of the security conference, 100 women meet for a highly political exchange with Nobel Prize winners – and the Federal Foreign Minister explains why she doesn’t like bouquets of flowers.
From slumber to “turbo gentrification” A welfare organization is selling its hostel, investors are building and renovating properties for many millions – and the city refuses to oblige them to build cheap apartments. How an inconspicuous corner in Schwabing has mutated into a luxury square (SZ Plus).
“That was a big mistake. My knowledge of human nature failed me.” The cabaret artist Bruno Jonas grew up in the Munich laughing and shooting society, he is a shareholder – and may now have to experience the insolvency. A conversation about guilt, debts and insults (SZ Plus).
How successful is integration in the Bavarian education system? Around 2,000 children and young people from the Ukraine are currently attending schools in Munich: the younger ones receive normal primary school lessons, while the older ones learn German in 63 bridge classes.
Bill Gates visits the German Museum The US billionaire came to Munich for the security conference – and made a detour to the museum. What he was interested in there.
Munich street cleaning strikes at carnival After the work stoppages at the airport, Verdi is increasing the pressure in the wage dispute with another warning strike. When the city wakes up on Ash Wednesday, the garbage should still be there.
Motorists are allowed to step on the gas again The speed limit has been lifted on the A995 out of town between Unterhaching and Taufkirchen and on the A8 near Neubiberg. It didn’t hold up legally.
Laimer tube closed to cars due to construction work A detour will be set up via Landsberger Straße, Friedenheimer Brücke, Wilhelm-Hale-Straße and Arnulfstraße.
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