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The topic of the day: the dispute over the climate package
For hours, the Grand Coalition has struggled last Friday for the cornerstones of the Climate Protection Program 2030 - barely a week later, the compromise comes unstuck again. The climate resolutions are discussed in the Bundestag. At the center of the debate: the CO2 price. A tax that is not so called and should be charged per tonne of carbon dioxide, so it is beaten on about gasoline costs.
Ten euros per tonne - this is what the leaders of the CDU, CSU and SPD have agreed on. Far too low, find climate protectors, scientists and activists. In fact, in the discussion was also first of a very different price, as my colleagues have reconstructed: 35 euros had the people of German Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) calculated before the meeting. The SPD later suggested 20 euros, as the acting party leader Malu Dreyer now stresses. In the end, that was not consensus in the Union.
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Tired of bargaining: The tips of CDU, CSU and SPD
The result of the negotiations of the CDU, CSU and SPD then also "more packages as a package" analyzed my colleagues Stefan Schultz and Gerald Traufetter in the past week. In summary: There are higher taxes on airline tickets and a tax reduction for train tickets, strict controls on CO2 reduction, but few proposals for the development of renewable energies.
A gift for the citizens: From 2021 onwards, the commuter commute is to be raised from 30 to 35 cents per kilometer for people who travel further than 21 kilometers to work. However, this almost exclusively favors motorists, explains my colleague Florian Diekmann.
The Greens then expressed the hope that the federal government will improve. Through their participation in state governments, they can block laws in the Bundesrat. In the debate of the bill in the Bundestag union leader Ralph Brinkhaus now signaled willingness to compromise. The criticism of the negotiated climate package is "very serious," he said.
The number of the day: 50 percent
Old age poverty is female. This has been proven once again by a research group: in 2017, only 50 percent of women in paid employment were employed full-time, notes the group's leader in an interview. Above all, they are the ones who will have a hard time in old age. What helps? Another pension, housing and labor market policy. And save, recycle, cook.
News: What you need to know today
- France's former president Jacques Chirac is dead: he led the country between 1995 and 2007 and became 86 years old.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and the then President of France Jacques Chirac
- Authorities close three pharmacies in Cologne: After two deaths from a poisoned drug, the immediate closure was ordered for three pharmacies. All belong to the same owner.
- Ex-chief of the Lübeck white ring acquitted: The former leader of the White Ring in Lübeck had to answer for court appearances in court.
- More women on supervisory boards - but less so in executive boards: according to Dax companies, large public companies are also reporting more women on their supervisory boards. The percentage of women in executive boards and executive boards is decreasing.
- Whistleblower accuses White House of hushing up Ukraine call: Donald Trump seems to have been pushing for foreign interference in the US 2020 election. The White House wanted to prevent publication.
- The record of her phone call not only damages Donald Trump, but also Volodymyr Selenskyj: The Ukrainian president wants to please the US president. Does that hurt his country?
Opinion: The most discussed comments and interviews
Will Angela Merkel be my new boss? Although the Federal Chancellor keeps her future open: Why not publisher of a cheeky digital newspaper, such as Spiegel Plus, asks Harald Schmidt. Click here for the video.
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Harald Schmidt
"Extremists should no longer legally come to arms": Has Hesse's Interior Minister Beuth not got his police under control? Officials were increasingly attracted by neo-Nazi chats. The CDU politician announces a crackdown - even against armed neo-Nazis. Here's the interview.
Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
The Backward Party: The Social Democrats are looking for new top staff. It would be better to take care of a modern program. A union has shown how to do it. A column.
What would have helped the East German soul after the unity: After his escape from the GDR in 1988 Ralf-Raffael Brentano got a depression. As a psychoanalyst, he explains why many problems from the turn of the century still have their effects today.
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
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Movie "Midsommar", Photo: Isabelle Grill
What you could look like: On a rainy Thursday like today (at least in Hamburg), you have to go to the cinema, of course. Today, for example, the horror film "Midsommar" arrives, bringing the midsummer to the screen. Director Ari Aster manages to tell the nightmare of a Swedish municipality in glaring sunlight. Anything but genre-conform.
I wish you a nice finishing time.
warmly
Milena Hassenkamp from the Daily Team
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