After the Easter rest period was withdrawn, Angela Merkel (CDU) made a live government statement on Thursday morning.
It's about your corona policy and the EU summit.
Germany is in the third wave of the
Corona
* pandemic.
In a government statement, Chancellor
Angela Merkel
* (CDU)
comments
on her Corona policy.
The Chancellor will also speak about the
EU summit
starting today
.
Berlin - German Chancellor
Angela Merkel
(CDU) are on Thursday morning (25.03.2021) at 9 o'clock in the Bundestag a
government statement
on
EU summit
and its course in the
corona policy
from.
Important topics at the EU summit, which also begins today, will include further containment of the
corona pandemic
and relations with
Russia
and
Turkey
.
On Wednesday (March 24th, 2021), the
Chancellor
withdrew
the ambiguous regulation on the so-called
Easter rest
and apologized to the citizens for the uncertainties this caused.
In a confession that is unusually open for German federal politics, she took sole responsibility and admitted to both the public and the Bundestag an error in the current
Corona policy
.
Now live: Government statement by Chancellor Angela Merkel
“To put it bluntly: the idea of an
Easter shutdown
was designed with the best of intentions, because we absolutely have to manage to slow down and reverse the third wave of the pandemic.
Nevertheless, the idea of the so-called
Easter rest was
a mistake, ”announced
Angela Merkel
in her statement *.
She regretted the uncertainties of the citizens caused by the unclear decisions of the Bund-Länder-Round all the more, "as we are in the middle of the
third wave of the pandemic
triggered by the mutation
", the Chancellor continued.
In view of the next deliberations with the Prime Ministers scheduled for April 12th, she reminded them that despite the tilted regulation on the so-called
Easter rest,
the most recent resolutions of the Bund-Länder-Round are still
valid
.
Name: Angela Dorothea Merkel |
Spouse: Joachim Sauer |
Born: July 17th, 1954 (age 66) |
Party: CDU |
Place of birth: Hamburg |
Office: Federal Chancellor (since 2005) |
In addition to the
emergency brake regulation
for regional exit limits and contact restrictions,
this also includes
the expansion of
corona test capacities
and the progress of the
vaccination campaign
.
In view of the dynamic pandemic and increasing
corona infections
, Merkel once again addressed the citizens directly in her statement.
"Once again I would like to thank everyone who, with their behavior, helps
to slow down and stop
the third wave with the deadlier and more contagious mutation of the
corona virus
," the Chancellor called for further discipline.
+
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) made a statement after talks via video conference with the Prime Minister on Wednesday (March 24th, 2021).
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Government statement by Angela Merkel: EU summit and the containment of the corona pandemic
Containing the
corona pandemic will also be a
topic
at the
EU summit
.
The heads of state and government will not only talk about the distribution of the
vaccines
, but also prepare a joint strategy for opening up, reports the German Press Agency (dpa).
A renegotiation of the agreement with
Turkey
to ward off refugees at the
EU's external borders
* is also on the agenda.
In view of recent domestic political developments such as the withdrawal from the European Istanbul Convention to Combat Violence against Women and the application for a ban by the second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, relations with
Turkey
* are considered tense.
The same applies to relations with
Russia
following the imprisonment of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
US President Joe Biden
* has announced that he will be
a surprise guest at the two-day summit
.
(Joel Schmidt) *
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