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Scholz wants an apolitical decision on Nord Stream 2. Chancellor Scholz has spoken out against combining the operating license for the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with efforts to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine. It is a private-sector project, as he emphasized after the EU summit in Brussels. For commissioning, compliance with European law has to be clarified in one aspect. An authority in Germany decides on this quite apolitically. The heads of state and government have extended the sanctions against Russia. France and Germany want to work together more closely on energy issues. Go to Article
First summit for Chancellor Scholz: Brussels nights are long. The Corona crisis, high energy prices and Russian provocations: The topics at Scholz’s first summit in his new role are serious, but the Chancellor is received with many kindnesses. He reacts coolly as usual to his colleague’s enthusiasm and then has an experience that is typical of such meetings: the schedule is shifted. Go to Article
CDU announces the result of their primary election. Almost two thirds of the approximately 400,000 party members took the opportunity to have their say in their next chairman. The result should be available in the afternoon. Friedrich Merz is considered the favorite to succeed Armin Laschet; Norbert Röttgen and Helge Braun apply next to him. If none of the three candidates achieve an absolute majority, there will be a runoff between the top two. Go to Article
How Kim Jong-un rules North Korea. When his father died ten years ago today, observers predicted the end of the regime in the isolated country. But since then the dictator has refined the methods of oppression. The first goal of his policy is to keep the Kim dynasty in power. At the same time, his People’s Republic is doing badly, because of the coronavirus fear it is more isolated than ever. To the article (SZ Plus)
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What a compulsory vaccination can do. Indonesia, Turkmenistan, and soon Austria – in very different countries, people have to be immunized against the coronavirus. An overview shows what experiences have been made there and that such a regulation is not a panacea. To the article (SZ Plus)
Saxony worries. In Freiberg, many despair of their fellow human beings, who not only go for a walk, but also threaten society as a whole. Of a radicalization that also worries the secret services. To the report (SZ Plus)
US health agency advises against Johnson & Johnson. The risk of brain thrombosis in connection with the preparation from Johnson & Johnson is higher than previously known. The EU recommends getting a boost no later than six months after the second injection. Messages from all over the world
48 million euros commission through mask deals for Andrea Tandler. In the case of the mask affairs in Bavaria, this offers a new arithmetic measure. The commission for Tandler, daughter of the CSU grandee Gerold Tandler, together with a partner, corresponds to twenty times what the long-standing CSU politicians Sauter and Nüßlein received for comparable deals. Go to Article
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1306 stubby legs. The world is all right again: millipedes rightly bear their name! Go to Article