The situation on Friday: night of the gray faces

today we deal with the (missing) climate resolutions of the Coalition Committee, with the state of justice in Putin's Reich and with the employment agency Jens Spahn.

Prison camp for Ustinov?

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There are other topics than the climate on these days: today a Moscow court decides on the case of Pavel Ustinov . The actor allegedly attacked a police officer during a demonstration , but there is no evidence for that. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. This has outraged many Russians, especially in the cultural scene. The court should clarify whether Ustinov must take his punishment. Here more is negotiated than the Ustinov case, this is also about the question of whether there are elements of a rule of law in Putin's Russia.

• Videos of protesters: Russian media watchdog threatens YouTube

The long night of gray faces

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It was one of those nights that last forever , in which the faces are getting grayer and sunken, the coffee consumption rises and rises. At 5.30 pm, top politicians from the Union and the SPD met at the Chancellery to discuss a climate protection program. At 5 o'clock in the morning, at the editorial deadline of this situation, they were still sitting there and talking to each other, sometimes in separate rounds of Union and SPD, sometimes together. It's about a lot, and such talks should not end quickly, because otherwise the supporters of each side could think that their people had not negotiated hard enough.

A lot of time to rest does not remain for some participants of the round. For today, the so-called Climate Cabinet is scheduled to meet in order to approve the cornerstones of the program. Afterwards, there will be a press conference after planning.

Otherwise, this will be a big day of climate. Today begins the global strike week called by the Fridays for Future movement. The conference of the IPCC starts in Monaco on the topic "Influence of climate change on oceans and ice masses of the earth". Why are these events so common? Next week, the UN General Assembly in New York will discuss the climate issue.

• Climate Protest: The school strike splits the parenting

Robust liberalism

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The West is not lost yet, the West must not be lost , because the world needs the West. This is the thesis that Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff represents in his new book. It therefore also says: "The world needs the West" . Kleine-Brockhoff, Vice President of the German Marshall Fund, is thus opposed to pessimism about the role of the US and Europe.

Kleine-Brockhoff is shaping a new concept: Robust Liberalism. That should be the guiding idea of ​​the West. It no longer strives to be universal, but is aware of its limited reach. "Robust liberalism re-thinks the West, cutting back on overriding ideas and ending the liberal overstretching of past decades, preserving, and defending, its core of ideas, all the more decisively." Kleine-Brockhoff sets four maxims for this: freedom, multilateralism, self-restraint and preparedness to defend oneself.

He does not give up the USA, Trump says the connection between Europe and America is getting better again. His book, which will be published in Edition Körber next week, is an important, clever impetus for foreign policy debate in this country.

The pianist and the politician

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The Basic Law exists for 70 years. How current is it? What challenges are there? My colleague Susanne Beyer discusses these questions next Tuesday as part of the series "SPIEGEL-Gespräch live" in the Hamburg Thalia Theater with Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble and the pianist Igor Levit . Start: 19 clock. Location: Alstertor 1. The event will be broadcast live on spiegel.de and thalia-theater.de.

• Here you will find all upcoming "SPIEGEL conversations" at a glance

Winners of the day ...

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... is Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn . He is a traveling branch of the Federal Employment Agency. He teaches jobs, for example in Mexico today. There he is looking for nurses for Germany. Previously, he was on the same mission in Kosovo and the Philippines.

The outdated society does not find enough young locals to wipe their asses down drastically. How good that there is the option of immigration. Spahn is the winner of the day.

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I wish you a nice start to the day.

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