1.
Francis' impotence
"Carry on":
The Pope has rejected Cardinal Marx's offer of resignation, as can be seen from a letter that became public today.
“That is exactly my answer, dear brother.
Carry on as you suggest, but as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, «writes Francis.
"I agree with you that we are dealing with a disaster: the sad history of sexual abuse and the way the Church has dealt with it until recently."
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There can be a continued like this.
Photo:
Peter Kneffel / dpa
My colleague Annette Langer comments on the decision as follows: "The pontiff's reaction is passive, defensive, shaped by theological, power-politically necessary, perhaps age-related mildness that recognizes the problem but does not address it." While Marx speaks of a "dead point" , at which the church had arrived, the pontiff now extended the death.
Read the full comment here: Die Hard
2.
Spahn's passwords
Jens Spahn finally has something good to announce
, at least for the moment the health minister of the CDU can leave all the reports about "botch masks" ("Bild am Sonntag") behind and announce: The digital vaccination certificate is coming.
The CovPass should be available to everyone by the end of June.
"We keep our word here," says Spahn.
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Yellow, I need somebody
Photo: Michael Kappeler / dpa
"The most German thing about digital vaccination certificates is that a lot of people will receive it by post," says my colleague Patrick Beuth from our Netzwelt department. “And that you can't apply for it digitally.” But at least: “It will be distributed immediately, even if it will be weeks before all vaccination centers, medical practices and pharmacies are able to do so.” Which way you can Obtaining proof and what you have to do for it depends on where you are vaccinated or have already been vaccinated.
The pharmacy will probably also
earn money
from the digital vaccination certificate
, as my colleague Alex Preker reports.
"Around 19 million people in Germany are already fully vaccinated and have received confirmation of this on paper," he writes.
“Pharmacists should also take care of the digitization of this certificate.” By issuing the required QR codes, the Federal Ministry of Health has commissioned precisely those professional groups who, according to the Federal Audit Office, “clearly overcompensated” when the FFP2 masks were made available in the spring. was reimbursed from tax revenues.
Now a generous remuneration is planned for them again: 18 euros per QR code.
(More here.)
And read here: How to get your digital vaccination certificate
Current background information on the mask dispute can be found here: And the protagonists?
remain silent
3.
A flux compensator called Uefa
So tomorrow it begins, the 2021 European Football Championship, which was condemned to resubmit by the pandemic last year.
Officially, the tournament is still called
Uefa Euro 2020
.
Either, thesis 1, the football association is concerned about the salvation of the continent and at least wants to create the pleasant illusion that the Corona year never happened.
Or, hypothesis 2, Uefa didn't want to throw away all the stuffed animals, stickers, collector's pictures, T-shirts, pens and other fan articles on which the logo was already emblazoned with the old year.
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Proposal: All future European championships are called Euro 2020. That could save a lot.
Photo: ANATOLY MALTSEV / EPA
Two sub-theses on thesis 2: Either
Uefa
drives
concern for the environment and a newly discovered spirit of sustainability.
Or it acts out of a marketing logic that tries to transcend the boundaries of logic, semantics and space-time and from which I shouldn't actually say that I work at Spiegel, but rather have to confess: "I work at DER SPIEGEL."
My colleague Peter Ahrens from the DER SPIEGEL sports department suspects that those responsible had decided “in a fit of residual sense, which is not necessarily a matter of course in these associations, not to crush all of the fan articles, but simply to crush the entire event with the old name to pull through a year later «. He says: "Marty McFly would be proud of the Uefa, they just do their Euro 2020 in a different year and don't even need a flux compensator." Perhaps it was also about the costs.
About the sport itself: My colleague Danial Montazeri presents the big Spiegel ranking list, excuse me, the DER SPIEGEL ranking list for UEFA EURO 2020. It shows who has what it takes to be a surprise team.
And how good the German team really is.
Because one thing is clear: In terms of sport, many fans hope to experience a new 1996 in 2020/2021.
Musically, a nineties revival is guaranteed - Bono from U2 sings the EM song.
You can find the ranking list here: These are the best teams in the European Football Championship.
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What else is important today
Bad climate protection destroys biodiversity:
electric vehicles help to protect the climate, but the extraction of raw materials for the batteries harms the environment.
Just one of many examples of misguided actionism, say experts from the World Biodiversity and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Stiko does not make a general recommendation for the corona vaccination of children:
The Biontech vaccine has been approved for children from the age of twelve since the end of May.
However, it should initially only be used in exceptional cases, recommends the Standing Vaccination Commission.
Hesse's interior minister dissolves SEK Frankfurt
: Several officials are said to have exchanged right-wing extremist content in chats.
Interior Minister Beuth has now drawn conclusions from the scandal.
Giffey loses doctorate:
Due to the ongoing allegations that she plagiarized her doctoral thesis, Franziska Giffey had already resigned as family minister.
Now the Free University of Berlin recognizes the academic degree.
My favorite story today: Why did five year old Nahla have to die?
"Favorite story" sounds crooked as a category for my colleague Maria Stöhr's text, but few stories have touched me as much in the past few weeks.
Maria writes about the five-year-old girl Nahla, who died in Syria after being chained for weeks by her father and suffering from hunger.
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Nahla al-Othman, five years old, a few months before her death in a refugee camp in northwest Syria
Photo:
Hussein Al Hamad
“While researching, I asked myself: Why did no one step in to help the girl?
Why didn't anyone stop the father? ”Says Maria.
“There are videos of her, photos.
So many people knew how bad Nahla was. ”She spoke to the director of the refugee camp where Nahla's family has lived in a tent for three years.
He said: "Nobody here can afford to take responsibility." That is not an excuse, but the result of ten years of civil war.
"The people there have no prospects, they are hungry," says Maria.
“You can't make it out of the country, the borders with Turkey are closed;
even children torment themselves with suicidal thoughts. "
It is a story that unfortunately gives little hope.
You can find the text here.
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
The Telegram billionaire and his dark empire:
Telegram is one of the most popular chat apps in the world - and possibly the most dangerous.
The platform is hardly regulated and is therefore popular with criminals and terrorists.
Who is the head behind it?
Johnson's summit dreams:
Three days on the beach, pats on the back with Joe Biden and a barbecue included: The annual general meeting of the leading industrial nations should be a triumph for Brexit Britain.
If it weren't for annoying demonstrators and critics.
Two tons of explosive power, no pilot:
Military tests show: AI-controlled fighter jets are clearly superior to human pilots.
Critics warn against the autonomous weapon systems that kill without a conscience.
Too late.
$ 544 million in income - tax-free:
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett: Although the wealth of the super-rich is constantly growing, they hardly pay taxes.
A new revelation shows how little accurate.
Is the scandal enough to change the system?
Which is less important today
Stove affinity:
Jan Böhmermann
, 40, gets his own cooking show with the title »Böhmi sizzles«, as the ZDF announced. The series is currently being produced in Cologne and will be broadcast from the end of July. The guests are the presenter Aminata Belli, 29, the dancer Motsi Mabuse, 40, the science journalist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, 33, the star pianist Igor Levit, 34, the entertainer Riccardo Simonetti, 28, and the rapper and music producer Xatar, 39. In his podcast "Fest und Flauschig" the presenter said that he saw himself in the tradition of Alfred Biolek in his program "Alfredissimo": "Come in, clear your throat, I'll pop two Kölsch in the first minute."
Typo of the day
, now corrected: "For billionaires," the Okönom Zucman told the New York Times, "income tax, the foundation of US taxation, has become a voluntary tax."
Cartoon of the day:
Mail from the tax office
And tonight?
Could you follow a recommendation from my colleague Carola Padtberg from our cultural department and watch the two-part "Lost Women Art - a forgotten piece of art history" in the Arte media library.
"If you ask people on the street about the ten most famous artists in the world, nobody will even name one artist," says the documentary.
The filmmaker Susanne Radelhof asks: Why is that so?
Why are there so few works by women in the permanent collections of museums, namely only about five percent?
»There were and are so many innovative, pioneering women artists who are simply not famous because they couldn't market themselves as well as men, or didn't act as aggressively.
This documentary brings some of these women to light, «says Carola.
A lovely evening.
Sincerely
yours, Oliver Trenkamp
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