1.
Off to the south!
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Let the Greeks take off
Photo: Matt Dunham / AP
British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson gave
a speech in front of Parliament
yesterday
in which he presented a roadmap for "a road to freedom".
The schools should open in March, the pubs and restaurants in April, the cinemas in May, and everything should be back to normal at the end of June, as it was before Corona.
Why?
Johnson expects enough people to be vaccinated by then.
Around a quarter of the population has already received a first dose of the vaccination.
And how do the Britons react to Johnson's announcement?
They make vacation plans.
The world's largest tour operator Tui counted a booking increase of 500 percent overnight.
At Easyjet, flight bookings rose by more than 300 percent compared to the previous week, and vacation bookings even increased by 600 percent.
Particularly popular: beach destinations in southern Europe such as Malaga, Alicante and Palma in Spain, Faro in Portugal and Crete in Greece.
Would you like to spend your vacation there this year too?
Better to plan for 2022. In Germany, only four percent have been vaccinated at least once.
And Angela Merkel said today in an online meeting of the Union parliamentary group: The fact that there is a third corona wave cannot be defined away.
You have to live with the mutation.
Read the full story here: Boris Johnson wants to lift all corona measures by the end of June
2.
The future of living
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Texts about living -
renting, buying, building
- are of great interest to you, dear readers, as a rule.
If you don't have that much money, you want to find out whether the housing market will relax at some point.
Anyone who has a lot of money and some leftover wants to know whether the investment in the second home is still worthwhile as an investment.
In this respect I would like to recommend the following story to you: Many believe that the subject of housing could determine the federal election campaign.
My colleagues Benjamin Bidder and Henning Jauernig from our economic department therefore looked at the German housing market - and identified three problems:
The rents are too high.
Too little is being built.
It is not being built with enough vision.
Good and (not so) beautiful.
What interests me most personally: As part of a double-income academic household, do I have a realistic chance of ever buying an apartment or house in a good location, in Hamburg or any other larger city?
Henning's answer is clear:
"You can get rid of that, at least as long as you don't inherit."
If you are like me, I can only advise you: try to find a good relationship with your landlord.
Read more about the background here: Germany's three problems with living and building
3.
Complaints about corona reporting
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If you are annoyed about the reporting in SPIEGEL, you can write a letter to the editor - or
complain to
the
press council
.
The press council was founded in 1956 and is a kind of voluntary self-regulation of the press, i.e. newspapers, magazines and online media.
The press council can issue a reprimand, the criticized medium should then publish this criticism.
The Press Council cannot draw any further conclusions; it is not particularly powerful.
Nevertheless, angry readers turned to the Press Council more often than ever in 2020: 4085 complaints were received, almost twice as many as in the previous year (2175).
The committee has several explanations for this: On the one hand, there were a lot of reports on individual articles, for example on the police-critical column by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah in the "tageszeitung" (In this context, by the way, I can again give you the portrait of my colleague Xaver von Cranach about Yaghoobifarah recommend).
On the other hand, there were many complaints about reporting on the corona pandemic.
The spokesman for the press council, Sascha Borowski, wrote in the report: "In the exceptional situation caused by the pandemic, readers wanted clear and reliable facts and turned to the press council particularly often when they had doubts about the truthfulness of the reporting." There was also one against SPIEGEL some complaints, in one case a reprimand was issued.
Read more here: More complaints than ever before with the German Press Council
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What else is important today
The suspect is Reemtsma kidnapper Thomas Drach:
Thomas Drach hit the headlines because of the kidnapping of multimillionaire Jan Philipp Reemtsma.
Now he has been arrested: He is said to have been involved in three robberies in Cologne and Frankfurt am Main.
Scheuer's next construction site:
The Ministry of Transport wants to fight white spots in the cell phone network with a new GmbH.
The CSU prestige project is controversial anyway - internal documents now show: The construction is slow and chaotic.
Catholic Bishops 'Conference elects women general secretary for the first time:
She sees the Catholic Church "in an exciting phase": Beate Gilles is the new General Secretary of the German Bishops' Conference - and thus the first woman in the office.
Malaysia deports hundreds of refugees to Myanmar:
Contrary to a court decision and despite the coup in Myanmar, Malaysia is deporting hundreds of people back to the country.
The EU wants to give the persecuted Rohingya more support.
My favorite story today: which club do you want to hear?
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Musk have
Photo:
JOE SKIPPER / REUTERS
A few weeks ago my sister sent me a message, "Do you have an invitation to this
clubhouse
?" I had no idea what she was talking about.
Then I turned on the internet - and understood: It felt like everyone was talking about this app, so exclusive that you need an invitation.
An app in which people open virtual rooms and then: just talk.
Doesn't sound as exciting as it got - when I finally got an invitation.
My colleague Philipp Oehmke described what makes it so fascinating. He has spent a lot of time there over the past few weeks.
He was there when Elon Musk interviewed the head of financial services company Robinhood about the hedge fund attack on the video game chain GameStop.
When soccer player Max Kruse talks to young women about sexual preferences.
When DJ Ötzi played his new love song at half past one in a room with 300 people.
It is possible that people just have too much time, that everything will be done after the shutdown.
Philipp believes that Clubhouse will at least go down in the collective memory: "It won't be the melancholy books or the stupid songs about Corona that you will remember in 30 years when you think back to the times of lockdown," he writes.
"It's about how we talked again for a few months in 2021, and hey, it wasn't that bad."
Read the full story here: And suddenly Elon Musk is hanging out in your living room
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
"I don't want us to end up like the USA":
some cheer her, others despise her: no left-wing politician polarizes as strongly as Sahra Wagenknecht.
Here she talks about referendums, leftists in prefabricated buildings - and her own role in politics.
The centenarian who was vaccinated so that Corona disappeared:
"We survived Corona": In Hamburg, the city's largest old people's home has now been vaccinated.
The facility is seen as a laboratory for what is in store for society on a large scale.
How has everyday life changed here?
How Donald Trump ensured that the Hamburg bank Melli lost its telephone connection:
Did Deutsche Telekom illegally cut the service of a bank - in advance obedience to the then US President?
The European Court of Justice should clarify that.
The verdict could be groundbreaking.
Leap into the void:
Oberstdorf has made itself beautiful for the major event Nordic World Cup, millions have been put into the sports facilities.
But now no spectators are allowed to come.
The costs remain.
Which is not so important today
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Open communication, crossed arms?
Photo:
Rob DeMartin / AP
Who is the boss?
Barack Obama
, 59, former US President, and rock veteran
Bruce Springsteen
, 71, started a podcast together.
Spotify announced that eight episodes will be about "fatherhood, marriage and the future of America".
"On the surface, Bruce and I don't have much in common," Obama said on the first episode of the podcast.
“He's a white guy from a small town in Jersey.
I am a black man with mixed race parents, born in Hawaii.
He's a rock and roll icon.
I'm ... not that cool. "
Typo of the day
, corrected in the meantime: At least Germany is still considered a clear gold candidate in the team - even though Norway and Japan have several strong combiners.
Cartoon of the day:
headline with a link to the photo gallery
And tonight?
Perhaps you guessed it: why not spend an evening at
Clubhouse
(see above).
If you don't have access yet, ask around in your circle of friends, someone will surely have an invitation left.
I can't tell you who will get together tonight, but something will happen.
I once got into an
art talk
by chance
- and learned more about contemporary art in one hour than in my entire school days.
If you don't have an iPhone (unfortunately the app only works there so far), then simply have Philip's text read out to you instead, this function is available in the text.
It's a bit like you were there.
A lovely evening.
Sincerely,
Laura Backes
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