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1. Christmas with friends - do you remember?
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Sorry, an earwig could torment you in a moment.
"Quit Playing Games With My Heart", that was always going on in the village pub where my colleague Maria Stöhr met her old friends and former classmates for the "Welcome Home" party on the day before Christmas every year.
"At these Christmas parties, those who stayed and those who came back were strangely united," writes Maria.
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"The way to adulthood led us all through the door of the same bar." This door does not open today, the Café Nanu in the Allgäu had to close, due to corona, one of those 2020 words.
Star chef
Tim Raue fears
a
downright wave of bankruptcies in the catering industry
, as he said to my colleague Alex Kühn: "In January and February, bankruptcies will fall like needles from your dry Christmas tree that you put outside the door after Christmas." Interview).
But to also give a little hope: Here my colleague Irene Berres explains which three factors depend on whether and when
Corona
can be
defeated
.
And here comedians give tips on how to get through Christmas, because they finally provide good answers to annoying questions from relatives.
Here you will find all current developments on the pandemic: The Corona Update
2. Orderly Brexit - You can forget!
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Drowning Street No.
10?
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"Quit Playing Games" would also be a resolution for
Boris Johnson
.
The British health service NHS pleaded with the prime minister to postpone Brexit - the fight against the pandemic is going ahead, so no additional "disruptive changes" are needed.
In any case, the damage is enormous, even if the farewell were postponed a little more.
“After nerve-wracking negotiations overshadowed by lies, breaches of the law and constitutional crises, the hardest possible Brexit is imminent,” reports my colleague Jörg Schindler, our correspondent in London.
"Chaos is guaranteed in any case, the only question is when it starts and how long it will last." (Here is his analysis.)
The chaos has already broken out in southern England: Thousands of truck drivers have been stuck in the corona traffic jam since the continent quarantined the island because of the new corona mutant (more about the danger of the virus variant here).
Although France has reopened the borders for the movement of goods under certain conditions (drivers have to show a negative test), things are not really moving forward.
The truckers at Dover harbor vented their anger with a concert of horns.
"We want to go home," they yelled.
Corona desperate, does the word already exist?
Read more here: Out of the EU, into misery
3.
Erdoğan's prisoners - we mustn't forget!
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Likes to show the flag
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A Turkish court today sentenced the journalist
Can Dündar
to 27 years and six months imprisonment, in absentia because the former editor-in-chief of the daily Cumhuriyet fled to Germany in 2016.
At the beginning of this week, the European Court of Human Rights
renewed
its call for the release of the opposition politician
Selahattin Demirtaş
, who has been held by the Turkish government since 2016 as an alleged terrorist helper.
Erdoğan has already made it clear that he does not feel bound by the judgment from Strasbourg, even though his country is a member of the Council of Europe.
The Turkish President continues to dismantle democracy.
Two years ago the »Welt« colleague
Deniz Yücel was released
from Turkish custody.
He was released mainly because civil society in Germany kept putting pressure on him.
"People like Demirtaş do not have the privilege of having a German passport," says my colleague Maximilian Popp.
“They still deserve not to be forgotten.” (You can read his analysis here.) We therefore have a focus on Erdoğan's forgotten prisoners on the page today:
An interview with the captured politician Demirtaş: "That has nothing to do with right"
And an interview with the convicted journalist Dündar: "Erdoğan has his back to the wall"
What else is important today
Von der Leyen is growing in favor of the voters, Spahn at an all-time high:
The popularity ratings of EU Commission chief von der Leyen and Health Minister Spahn are increasing, as the SPIEGEL politicians' stairs show.
There are winners and losers among the candidates for the CDU chairmanship.
1,300 refugees are waiting without shelter:
No electricity, no water - despite the onset of winter: a reception center for refugees has been cleared in Bosnia.
Some of the homeless people set tents and containers on fire.
Alleged right-wing extremist series of attacks in Neukölln - two suspects arrested:
For years, numerous attacks in Berlin-Neukölln had not been cleared up, even if right-wing extremists were suspected of the acts.
Now the investigators have reported a success.
Musk offered Apple Tesla for sale:
Apple CEO Tim Cook may have missed the deal of his life a few years ago.
Elon Musk said he had offered to buy Tesla.
Model Stella Tennant is dead:
She was the face of Chanel and ran for numerous designers: Stella Tennant has died.
The Scottish model was "a wonderful woman and an inspiration," said her family.
My favorite story today: 100 people, one year
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Special circumstances require special measures:
The corona pandemic touched the life of almost everyone in Germany this year, it changed our society in such a serious way that many consider it the greatest challenge since the Second World War.
At SPIEGEL, we have therefore tried to do justice to the extent of the pandemic in a special way: In the spring, a team of 52 colleagues decided to accompany people through this year without knowing what would happen to them when making the selection.
Among them are a stand builder and a virologist, an intensive care nurse, an undertaker, a cashier, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig and comedian Otto Waalkes.
The youngest is 9, the oldest 91 years old.
The hundred people who are now reporting on their year have been contacted again and again over the past few months, there have been personal encounters, telephone calls and e-mails.
This is how the
Corona protocols came
about - statements, thoughts and experiences quoted.
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Little ones, stuff
The journalistic show of strength was coordinated by my colleague Britta Stuff, who accompanied three people through the year: a nurse in an old people's home, a mother who fled to a women's shelter with her three children, and the undertaker Dominik Kleinen from Berlin, who found it difficult to live can come to terms with the fact that he can no longer shake hands with the mourners to express his condolences.
Britta says: "With all the suffering, all the terrible things, it's just crazy how many creative thoughts, how many new ideas, despite everything, have emerged during this time." (Here in the video.)
And here you will find the whole cover story: The Corona Protocols - Anger, strength and tears
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
"Every dictator's dream":
The secret service expert Andrei Soldatov sees one thing above all in Putin's FSB: a tool to intimidate Russia's elites - despite the embarrassment of the poison attack on opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
"We can only ask the relatives for forgiveness":
North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister speaks in an interview about his fight against the pandemic - and says what he wants to do better now.
40 stitches in the neck:
At the federal base in Chemnitz, underage athletes were apparently injected - without their parents' knowledge and consent.
Now the gymnastics scandal is also occupying the public prosecutor's office.
How mourners survive the holidays:
every year, Christmas challenges grieving people.
What rituals can help you?
And how can grief be integrated into the festival?
Which is less important today
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Come in and find out?
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Pre-Christmas legends
: The well-known actor
Michael Douglas
, 76, has become a grandfather for the second time, which is directly related to the fact that the less well-known actor
Cameron Douglas,
42, has become a father for the second time, which he announced to the interested public via Instagram.
The grandfather commented there that he was "so happy" about the "holiday present".
Typo of the day
, corrected in the meantime: media mogul Jimmy Lai may release prison under certain conditions.
Cartoon of the day:
clown Boris
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And on the holidays?
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Roast goose (not in the picture)
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Could you use the short break between cookies and raclette to see what you have learned about nutrition this year?
After all, last year was the time when food became more food for the nerves than ever and baking sourdough bread became a collective hobby for coping with stress.
For example, do you know how effective intermittent fasting really is?
How has Corona changed our drinking habits?
Or what was Ötzi in his stomach when he died?
My colleague Maren Keller has put together a nutrition quiz - you can find it here.
If you don't do quite as well, no problem.
"The most important thing is that you can answer a question about nutrition: What will you have for dessert later?" Says Maren.
Good Appetite!
I wish you relaxing and relaxing days!
Until next Monday,
yours, Oliver Trenkamp
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