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The topic of the day: Will the basic rent save the GroKo?
The dispute over the basic pension reveals once again the great problem of the Grand Coalition: No matter how good a compromise may be in the end, it always remains a bitter aftertaste.
This time, the Union and the SPD have agreed on a package that will provide many pensioners with about 35 years of contributions better. (Read more about the details here.) You can see that as political success. But in the end, the memory of months of arguments and of all the tactics during negotiations prevails. And it remains completely open, how it goes with the government.
I think that's because nobody in a Grand Coalition can honestly treat anyone else. This distinguishes a purpose alliance of political opponents from a wish alliance within a political camp that pursues common ideas. The GroKo is always about the question of who can win the triumph in the end. These side effects have a destructive effect on the confidence in politics.
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CSU boss Markus Söder, CDU chairman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, SPD interim boss Malu Dreyer
They could actually be happy in the SPD. The Social Democrats have - as required - prevented a means test for the basic pension. But a few are not satisfied with the compromise. Others, who are afraid of a GroKo out, do not want to cheer too loud, so as not to baffle the Union. Because there the agreement encounters greater resistance. There were three opposing voices in the CDU executive committee, and the group meeting is eagerly awaited on Tuesday.
Until their congresses in the coming weeks, CDU and SPD can now think about what they make of the basic pension for themselves. The compromise may have been calm for a moment. He is not a solution for the GroKo misery.
The quote of the day: "A quite challenging process"
This is how Austria's ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz describes what he is about to face: coalition negotiations with the Greens. And that is certainly still nicely worded. Because after the conservative ÖVP had ruled for two years with the right-wing populist FPÖ, an alliance with the Greens would equal a 180-degree turnaround - definitely in a political style. But, for example, both parties would have to move far in terms of migration to find each other. My colleague Walter Mayr explains the background.
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Ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Greens chief Werner Kogler
News: What you need to know today
- After the Spanish election, Catalan separatists have blocked a border crossing with France: Political stalemate threatens again in the country. The backgrounds.
- In Hong Kong riots, police have shot a demonstrator: there have been renewed clashes between security forces and government critics in several places in the city.
- According to one report, the G20 countries do not do enough to limit global warming: the greenhouse gas emissions of the 19 industrialized and newly industrialized countries and the EU continue to rise, according to the "Brown to Green" report.
- Bolivia's President Evo Morales railed on a "coup": After weeks of protests, the head of state makes his office available - but he does not quietly.
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Evo Morales
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"If you do not want to invest in Berlin - where then?": In Berlin there should be virtually no rent increases for five years. Governing Mayor Michael Müller explains how he wants to enforce the law. The interview.
How to fight the Schmalzlawine: People over 65 produce a lot of earwax. That is not nice and can even be dangerous. Unless you follow Harald Schmidt's tips. The video column.
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Harald Schmidt
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The woman who can smell Parkinson's: Scientists are interested in the nose of Joy Milne from Scotland. Because her sense of smell helps to explore the disease. To the text of Timofey Neshitov it goes along here.
If saving makes poor: The zero interest eats up the assets of the Germans. What can you do for your money? Our reporters have traveled around the world looking for ways out of their misery. Read the SPIEGEL title story here.
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
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Adam Driver as Daniel Jones
What you might see: The Report has been in theaters since last Thursday. The film by Scott Z. Burns deals with the US Senate report on American torture methods after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the lead role plays Adam Driver's Senator Daniel Jones, who collects insights into all sorts of atrocities in a cellar office: waterboarding, sleep deprivation , Abuses. "A quiet political drama," writes my colleague Hannah Pilarczyk, in which ex-President Barack Obama does not get along well.
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