News about the Corona crisis
Again new highs for incidence and new infections. The Robert Koch Institute reports an incidence of 249.1 and 50,196 new infections. Both values are higher than ever in this pandemic. According to a survey, two thirds of Germans are in favor of compulsory vaccination. Go to Article
Reker is pushing for nationwide 2-G rule in North Rhine-Westphalia. If the mayor of Cologne has its way, “this 2G rule, or even better 2G plus, should apply throughout the country – and immediately,” she says. Reker justifies the carnival celebrations that begin today: A cancellation would be “totally inappropriate this year”, and the 2-G rule applies in bars, for example. Go to Article
Chambers of industry and commerce sometimes earned 55 euros per emergency aid form. Someone had to process the many applications for corona state aid. In some places these were also the chambers of industry and commerce. Now it comes out how many million euros they got for it. In Bavaria, for example, the IHK received a total of 11.7 million euros for its work. Go to Article
What is important today
EU is considering paying for the construction of a wall on the border with Belarus. In the Belarus crisis, Council President Michel takes the side of Poland and brings into play the financing of a “physical border infrastructure” by the EU. You are facing a “brutal, hybrid attack” on the EU’s external borders. In a cynical and shocking way, Belarus used the plight of migrants as a weapon; the EU must now find a common answer to this. Go to Article
China and USA surprisingly agree to work together at the climate summit. At the climate conference, the two biggest climate sinners in the world surprisingly forge an alliance. This is seldom the case between the two superpowers at the moment, because there is plenty of conflict around trade issues, human rights, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Go to Article
EXCLUSIVE How the German car lobby hinders climate protection. For many German car manufacturers, everything seems to be focused on electromobility. Every fourth electric vehicle in Europe now comes from Volkswagen, and the subsidiary Audi plans to phase out combustion engines by 2032. But industry lobbying in Brussels paints a different picture. And most German manufacturers have not signed the Glasgow Declaration, in which numerous countries and car manufacturers are committed to the end of the internal combustion engine. To the article (SZ Plus)
Matthias Maurer is on the way to the ISS. The German astronaut flies from Florida to the International Space Station. The start went without any problems. The four-person crew brings a Space-X Falcon 9 launcher into space. If everything goes according to plan, the capsule docks twelve hours after take-off at the ISS, which orbits the planet at an altitude of around 400 kilometers. As part of the “Cosmic Kiss” mission, Maurer will spend six months in space. Go to Article
Elon Musk sells 930,000 Tesla shares. At the weekend, he had a vote on Twitter whether he should bring shares back to the market for the first time after 2016. He will probably use the income of $ 1.1 billion for tax payments. Musk still holds more than 170 million Tesla shares. At least on paper, he is currently the richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of nearly $ 300 billion. Go to Article
After the federal election
Greens deny report on alleged waiver of Treasury Department. “There is no renouncement of any ministry and no definition of who will do what,” says a spokesman for the party Süddeutsche Zeitung. The traffic light negotiations are entering the next phase. “To the article
CDU chairmanship: Jens Spahn cancels, Helge Braun wants to run for it. The previously expected duel for the CDU chairmanship is turning into a three-way battle. The Chancellery Minister and Merkel confidante had hardly anyone on the slip up to now. The camps of the possible competitors Merz and Röttgen are calm. To the articleel
Best things
Be a frog man! In a frog species newly discovered in Australia, the males set an example in terms of equality. You can of course learn a lot from this. Go to Article