Is Corona also a sample for Europe?
Dispute over vaccine distribution, strict border controls - transit only with test result.
Where is this going?
Topic of the current
“maybrit illner” talk
on ZDF: Virus without borders - has Europe lost control?
Altmaier
defends
EU course on vaccine distribution
: "Do you now say: Ätsch, Ätsch, you've been unlucky or do we show solidarity?"
Green politician
Cohn-Bendit
calls for European responsibility for health and emergency laws in order to provide production facilities for vaccine.
Berlin -
Maybrit Illner
puts her
finger in the wound in the EU
during her talk on
ZDF
, looks at the USA and Great Britain.
Countries that, under the leadership of
Trump and Johnson,
seem to have responded better to vaccinations.
She provocatively inquires: Have we lost control?
The political talk "maybrit illner" on ZDF - these guests discussed with:
Peter Altmaier (CDU) -
Federal Minister of Economics
Christian Lindner (FDP) -
party and parliamentary group chairman
Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Alliance 90 / The Greens) -
MEP and publicist
Tonia Mastrobuoni -
Berlin correspondent for the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”, switched on
Diana Zimmermann -
Head of ZDF Studio London, switched on
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook -
political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School
Federal Minister of Economics
Peter Altmaier
emphasized the seriousness of the situation at the beginning: "These
virus mutations
are a real emergency," he warns.
It is now important “to prevent these mutations from spreading uncontrollably.” And make it clear: “The restrictions will remain in place for the next one or two months.” In addition, entry bans and stricter border controls would
apply
, especially for
people from risk areas
.
FDP boss Lindern demands an EU vaccination certificate from “maybrit illner”
Even
Christian Lindner
, otherwise often criticism happily, shows surprisingly cautious: "We are in a dangerous situation," says the FDP leader with haunting tone.
It is irresponsible to “relativize the virus and its mutation.” He advocates the
introduction of a European vaccination pass
.
The German
EU politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- he lived in France for decades,
back in Germany
since the
beginning of the Corona crisis
- positions himself clearly European in the panel discussion: “You want European responsibility for health?
Me too!
We fought for it for fifteen years!
But the nation states didn't want that! "
The question about the role of the
EU leadership
has not yet been answered, says Illner, and he once again
asked
Altmaier: “The EU
ordered
vaccination doses
three months
after Great Britain, the USA and Canada
.
But why do you abuse these companies now? ”.
The minister squirms: "The Chancellor, the Minister of Health and I supported the EU in buying as much vaccine as possible." In the end, however, it turned out, Altmaier continued, "that there were neighboring countries that had overlooked that there was a deadline. "And:" Do you now say: Ätsch, Ätsch, you've had bad luck or are we in solidarity? "
Green politician Cohn-Bendit calls for the Corona emergency at "maybrit illner"
Cohn-Bendit has the
answer
: “Not only Germany is affected!
All EU countries are affected!
Let's stay cool! ".
And as an old 68er, to the irony of history, calls for an emergency.
The
Green MEP
: "Then we need emergency legislation for the production of vaccines." He lists the major chemical companies in Germany and suggests that Hoechst and Co. should lend a hand in vaccine production: "Then BASF shouldn't Produce more glyphosate - but vaccine. "
Looking ahead,
Cohn-Bendit holds out the
prospect of high productions: “We have to vaccinate 350 million people in Europe.
And not just once, but for the next few years! ”Later he increased the global population:“ These companies have to
produce vaccines for nine billion people
and bring them to market. ”According to Cohn-Bendit, there is mutual dependency:“ As long as we don't have vaccinated the world, we will not be safe either. "
Altmaier
is extremely receptive to the proposal to convert the production.
Curevac is
already
cooperating
with the
chemical giant Bayer, Biontech
with Beiersdorf AG, and plants in Marburg and Saxony-Anhalt have
been converted.
Altmaier makes it clear: "If that should fail somewhere because there is no good will, then I would be willing to talk about coercion in such a case." Then Lindner intervenes: "Such a thing can also be regulated through contracts, there does not have to be nationalized. ”“ State participation, ”corrects Altmaier with a sharp eye and with regard to the purchase of federal shares in the company
Curevac
.
The US has vaccine but big problems with distribution
At the end of the switch to Great Britain and the USA.
It quickly becomes clear: Not all that glitters is gold: Although vaccinations are “really being done with all their might”, says correspondent Zimmermann, the
willingness to vaccinate is also very high
- but the health system is at its end and will be not recover next years.
The colleague Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, connected from the USA, draws a similar conclusion: "The first 100 million cans are there, but they are distributed incredibly poorly." There is a lack of syringes and vials and distribution systems, the last few
months under Trump are virtually no more been ruled
.
Biden
am currently trying to
catch up
with
emergency legislation
.
Clüver Ashbrook makes it clear: "This is about the survival of American society."
Conclusion of the “maybrit illner” talk
“What a show,”
Maybrit Illner
said
himself at the end.
The talk was also a ride for the audience.
A lot of information and argumentation, an emotional roller coaster of feelings and the certainty: what we are currently experiencing is not over in summer, but only the beginning of a long process of change with an uncertain outcome.
And yet a little light shimmered of a possibly growing solidarity: cross-party, cross-border, maybe even global.
(Bernd Pipo)
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