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The topic of the day: The new leadership duo of the SPD
75 percent for Saskia Esken, almost 90 percent for Norbert Walter-Borjans: The SPD has officially confirmed the new chairmen at its party congress. For the first time a man and a woman lead together the largest German party.
"In the new time" was the motto behind the podium, and before that Saskia Esken also described how she imagines this new time. One must overcome Hartz IV and "dry out the low-wage sector", which the SPD had created itself. She promoted "clear edge, a clear course and clear language".
Her colleague Walter-Borjans, the actually more prominent of the two, took in his speech only on speed, as he questioned the black zero, more investment, demanded more tax justice.
- The message, the style, the reactions: Read the analysis of the congress here.
Columnist Thomas Fricke has looked at the content with which the new bosses now want to "into the new era". What the two suggest is reasonably economical. His classification can be read here.
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SPD glorification at the Young Socialists in Bad Godesberg, the SPIEGEL reporter Ulrich Fichtner visited
My colleague Ulrich Fichtner looks differently at the new SPD leadership. The comrades, he writes, it was the member vote above all about kicking the Parteioberen "with a start in the ass". Why Germany's oldest party sink into the swirls of populism, read in his editorial.
That Esken and Walter Borjans now triumph, two left underdogs, is mainly the success of Kevin Kühnert. He has turned the SPD on its head ever since he took over the presidency of Juso two years ago - now he wants to stand as vice-party secretary. Read here a portrait of the Strippenzieher Kühnert.
- The SPIEGEL is dedicated to the SPD in the current cover story. And asks: Is the SPD still to save? Our reporter visited comrades at the base.
The number of the day: 3045
So many cases of sexual violence reported by the carrier Uber for the year 2018 - the perpetrators were therefore passengers, drivers and third parties. These include 235 rapes, according to the new safety report. In 2018 there were a total of 1.3 billion Uber rides in the US, 99.9 percent of which had expired without assaults. The report was eagerly awaited as Uber is under pressure: it was only on Wednesday that 20 women filed a lawsuit for being raped or sexually assaulted in a Uber-mediated car.
News: What you need to know today
- The federal government tricked with information on consultant costs. According to their annual report to the Budget Committee of the Bundestag, all ministries together allegedly spent only EUR 175 million in 2018 for external consultants. In reality, it should be significantly more.
- The protection of the Constitution warned in 2017 of a danger to the later Tiergarten murder victim. At the end of August, a Georgian was shot dead by a cyclist in the Kleiner Tiergarten park in Berlin. The prosecutor investigates and traces the situation in "state agencies" in Russia.
- Mass protests against the planned pension reform paralyzed France. They could become the defining feature of Emmanuel Macron's presidency. Why he faces the biggest challenge of his term.
- The EU bans the insecticide Chlorpyrifos. Farmers use the remedy when growing citrus fruits. As studies show, it can damage the brain development of babies in the womb.
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Construction work of the railway in Lower Saxony
- Deutsche Bahn wants to stop the decommissioning of routes. In addition, dead sections are to be reactivated. A special unit is to be set up to support the climate protection goals of the Federal Government.
- The pictures from the biggest GDR art theft have reappeared. In 1979, five works by old masters were stolen from the Gotha Castle Museum. According to the SPIEGEL, they have been in the custody of the State Museums since the end of September.
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The EU bans the harmful insecticide Chlorpyrifos, which is used in citrus fruits
Opinion: The most discussed comments, interviews, essays
The impeachment process must be: The intended impeachment of the US Democrats against Donald Trump will probably fail. "Is it worth the effort?" Asks my colleague Roland Nelles. And sends the answer afterwards: Yes, the Democrats have no choice.
The mainstream has developed to the right: the political scientist Cas Mudde explains why right-wing populists are on the rise in the world and how liberal democracy can be defended. By Jan Puhl.
Nikolaus Greetings from a very special place: What do you do if you just before 16 clock has no theme for the video column, which should appear at 17 clock? Quite simply, says Harald Schmidt. One joins the ICE on the toilet! Here is the result.
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Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
"Many women regret the intervention of one day": To be sterilized is a decision for life. A specialist and a specialist explain what they advise women.
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Greta Thunberg challenges the powerful of the world
The disturbing girl: Greta Thunberg comes to the climate summit in Madrid and challenges the powerful of the world - and each and every one of us. A portrait of the person of the year.
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
What you might be paging: "You may think me naive, but recently I looked at an illustrated book and felt like I was on a journey." So my colleague Nike Laurenz begins her text before she writes that this book has beamed her away, that the first page was the beginning of a "madness trip". Scroll to the first picture and be there, in the middle of "Heartland", the new volume of the artist Oda Jaune. I recommend the text to you.
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High Commissioner Elisabeth Eyckhoff (Verena Altenberger) places at the birthday party in "Zabriskie"
What you could look at: the police call from Munich, this time can even serve as an excuse for the Christmas market visit. My colleague Christian Buß gives eight out of ten points. It is also as opulent as between punch and gingerbread stalls: critic Buß writes, this thriller about stock trading Bund örsengeschäft holds ecstasy danger, rapid intoxication and long hangover, greed and megalomania, small fraud and great pain.
I wish you a nice evening and a good second Advent.
warmly
Maria Stöhr from the Daily Team
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