The small-minded vaccination envy
In
Brussels
, the
member states of the EU are
arguing
about whether there should be a
Europe-wide vaccination
pass with which corona-vaccinated people can prove their status.
Especially the vacation countries in the south are in favor.
The initiative for an EU-wide vaccination certificate came from
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
, the Prime Minister of Greece.
"The people who are vaccinated must be able to travel freely," said Mitsotakis.
The 27 heads of state and government want to agree on a joint approach to
"vaccination certificates"
by the end of January
.
It is still controversial whether this should actually enable freer and easier travel.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Photo:
Giorgos Zachos / AP
In Germany, too, the discussion about so-called "privileges" for vaccinated people has long since begun - although unfortunately there is hardly any substance to vaccinate these days.
Most of the country's vaccination centers are currently reminiscent of the disused Tegel Airport.
»Vaccination privileges«!
The very term is unfair framing.
In truth, it would only be about the return of self-evident freedoms.
Provided that the vaccines not only prevent disease but also prevent the virus from spreading.
We will soon know.
And then?
I myself will probably be one of the last to receive a "vaccination offer" (Jens Spahn).
Still, it doesn't make sense to me how one can seriously object if people who have been vaccinated can do what enriches their lives again.
Especially since it will mainly be about
older people
whose time to enjoy life is statistically scarcer than mine.
I would simply be happy for you if you
could carefree
visit
cafes, restaurants or theaters
again.
Those who are actually better off when others are not allowed to do what they are not (yet) allowed to do themselves, will probably not have a very cheerful life anyway.
Coronavirus summit: EU countries want to tighten travel rules
The official chairman
In a few hours the
CDU will
officially have a
new chairman
.
The
result of the postal vote
is to be announced today.
Armin Laschet
had
just
won
the
online vote last Saturday
in the runoff election against
Friedrich Merz
.
For legal reasons,
the delegates of the digital party congress
still had to confirm their vote by post.
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Friedrich Merz and Armin Laschet
Photo: Michael Kappeler / dpa
Objections of the loser to the postal ballot result and the legality of the election are, unlike recently in the USA, not to be expected.
As an exemplary loser, which he has been known to have been for years, Friedrich Merz had called on his own supporters to also vote for his competitor Armin Laschet in the postal vote.
Political staging:
So isser, the Laschet.
For real?
"A disastrous year"
Under the motto "Gas is not a bridging technology!" The
"Fridays for Future" movement
wants to
demonstrate
today in various cities against the
Nord Stream 2
pipeline, among other things
.
The activists criticize the commitment of the
state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
for the project - and the establishment of a
»Foundation for Climate and Environmental Protection MV«
, which from the movement's point of view is just a fig leaf for the construction of the pipeline.
The unswerving commitment of Prime Minister
Manuela Schwesig
for the prefabricated building
recently
described the climate activist
Luisa Neubauer as
“implemented climate crisis denial”.
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Luisa Neubauer
Photo: DER SPIEGEL
Neubauer was just a guest in the SPIEGEL talk "Top talk".
When asked whether 2020 was a good or bad year for the climate, Neubauer said: "I wouldn't say that it was a bad year for the climate - I'd rather say that it was a catastrophic one."
If you want to know whether she is
pleading
for
Annalena Baerbock
as candidate for chancellor of her party (Greens), or for
Robert Habeck
- and how she would react to the offer to become Federal Environment Minister, then take a look.
The talk will be available
today from 12 noon on spiegel.de
.
Climate crisis and livelihoods:
who has the power to break contracts?
Loser in general ...
... is the
AfD
.
The
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
will possibly
classify you
as a
right-wing extremist "suspected case"
in the coming week
- and thus enable telephone monitoring, observation and the use of informants.
For party members who are police officers, teachers or other officials, observation could become a specific problem.
For the AfD as a whole, it means the final
end of self-marketing as the so-called »professors' party«
.
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Alexander Gauland, group leader of the AfD
Photo: Kay Nietfeld / dpa
In the leading article of the new SPIEGEL edition, my colleague
Ann-Katrin Müller
, one of the AfD's most accurate observers,
writes
that the party has "honestly earned this observation: with the growing influence of the Völkisch, with the ingratiation of the would-be revolutionaries, of them some wanted to storm the Reichstag building - and with the smuggling of people into the Bundestag who harassed MPs there. ”In addition, according to Müller, the party
lacks any insight
.
AfD co-founder Konrad Adam: "Gauland stands in front of the ruins of his so-called life's work"
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Parler fails with lawsuit against Amazon:
Parler has been offline for days.
The reason: Amazon has terminated the cooperation.
A US court has now rejected an injunction
Liverpool lost a home game for the first time since April 2017:
Five games without a win, six points behind the leaders: Liverpool FC is deeply in crisis.
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