Due to the high financial burden caused by the Corona crisis, Chancellor Helge Braun is calling for the debt brake to be suspended.
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The
Corona *
lockdown has
been
extended
in
Germany
.
The
restrictions
apply until mid-February.
The first
demands
for school
openings are now being made
at the beginning of the month.
Chancellery Minister Helge Braun is calling for the
debt brake
to be
suspended
for a longer period of time
due to the financial burdens caused by the
Corona crisis
.
Update from Tuesday, January 26th, 2021, 10.15 a.m.: In
view of the
Corona crisis,
Chancellor Helge Braun calls for
the
debt brake
to be
suspended
for a longer period.
The
CDU
politician
said this
in a guest article in the newspaper "Handelsblatt".
In the coming years, the
debt brake will
not be adhered to despite strict spending discipline.
Social contributions should be stabilized by the end of 2023.
Braun rejects tax increases up to this point.
The federal government is currently using
an exception
to suspend the
debt brake
, which is actually intended for natural disasters.
Instead, according to Braun, the recovery strategy for the German economy should be combined with an amendment to the Basic Law that allows for higher borrowing in the coming years.
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Helge Braun, Head of the Federal Chancellery, in conversation with Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs.
(Archive image)
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Corona lockdown: first school openings possible at the beginning of February
First
report
from
January 25th
, 2021
:
Frankfurt - Apparently the first school
openings are
already conceivable from the beginning of February 2021.
At least that's what Britta Ernst (SPD) says.
She is chairwoman of the conference of ministers of education and education minister of Brandenburg.
"Certainly not completely,"
emphasizes Ernst and adds: "But I think that if there is a corresponding
infection
situation, for example with alternating lessons," Ernst told the "Rheinische Post".
In the beginning, however, this could only apply to final grades and the first grades, she explains.
Teaching at a distance is particularly harmful to primary school students.
Corona lockdown: schools open in early February?
The infection situation on site must be in the foreground.
"No country should have to wait for another to open its schools," said the 59-year-old.
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The chairperson of the Standing Conference can envision school opening at the beginning of February 2021.
(Archive photo)
© Sven Hoppe / dpa
After all, this is presented very differently: “I think it's right when the federal states make different use of the leeway that resolutions offer them.” (Tu)
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