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The incidence is falling for the first time in three weeks. The Robert Koch Institute puts the new incidence 0.2 lower than the previous day at 452.2 and the number of new infections within one day at 45 753. To the article
Groundbreaking judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court expected. Several urgent applications were submitted against corona measures such as curfews, contact restrictions and school closings in the spring – the Federal Constitutional Court rejected them. A really well-founded constitutional examination should only be carried out in the main proceedings. On this Tuesday the time has come: the court has examined the federal emergency brake, the basis of many restrictions, and wants to present its result in a few hours. Go to Article (SZ Plus)
EXCLUSIVE Mask affairs: Abusive commercialization of the mandate. The judiciary is calling on the Bundestag to change the bribery paragraph for MPs so that cases like Nüßlein and Sauter will be punishable in the future. Paragraph 108e has so far been restricted to processes in parliaments. Nüßlein and Sauter had not advocated the purchase of corona protective masks in the Bundestag or in the state parliament. But at federal and state ministries. Go to Article
Study sees unvaccinated people as the drivers of the pandemic. According to a new analysis, the coronavirus hardly spreads between immunized persons. Unvaccinated people, on the other hand, play a role in eight to nine out of ten new infections. To the article (SZ Plus)
“We have too much information and a lot is wrong.” The anthropologist Heidi Larson researches why people do not want to be vaccinated. A conversation about why in some countries there are fewer people who refuse to vaccinate than in others and how you can sometimes convince them. To the article (SZ Plus)
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The tricky search for the right staff. While the Greens and FDP have nominated their ministers, the future Chancellor Scholz is taking his time. The fact that it takes so long not only has to do with the fact that Scholz does not want any personalities to be dictated to him. He has also announced parity between men and women in his cabinet. If the office of Chancellor has been assigned to Scholz and his head of the Chancellery has to be named Wolfgang Schmidt and Hubertus Heil is appointed as Minister of Labor, there would be no more space for another male applicant. Not even for the health expert Karl Lauterbach, who was so present in the pandemic. To the article (SZ Plus)
Ukraine warns of Russian invasion. Shortly before a NATO meeting, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is alarmed. He named the number of allegedly 115,000 soldiers on Russian territory on the common border. In the worst case, Russia tries to redraw the borders in Europe by force. Go to Article
Republicans Block US Defense Budget Over Nord Stream 2. The Republicans in the US Senate had demanded binding sanctions against the pipeline, which the Democrats have denied them. The Democratic majority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, calls the decision “inexplicable and outrageous”. Go to Article
Barbados renounces the British Crown. The Caribbean island has declared itself an independent republic. The judge Sandra Mason was sworn in as the first female president of the island state at midnight on Tuesday night in the capital Bridgetown. She replaces Queen Elizabeth II as head of state – on Barbados’ 55th Independence Day and almost 400 years after the arrival of the first British settlers. Go to Article
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And those wrapped up greet each other every day. Beer from 3 p.m., fish & chips and “Oasis” music: In northern England, 60 concert-goers have snowed in in a pub – for three entertaining days. Go to Article