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A sports official and the Chancellor candidate of the Greens used racist words - because they apologized, they should be able to hope for forgiveness
Unfortunately, many people currently underestimate the talent of being able to forgive other people after they have publicly admitted their mistakes. Of course, I can very well understand that today many people are outraged about the racist derailment of the German cycling official Patrick Moster at the Olympic Games. But I also think it's right and important that Moster apologized. The German Olympic Sports Confederation announced today that it is convinced that Moster's "public apology for the racist remarks he made is sincere" - but at the same time they want to send Moster home early because of his disparagement of the opponents of a German athlete.
It has only been a few days since Annalena Baerbock, the Greens' candidate for chancellor, was accused of using racist language. In an interview, she described a case of everyday racism and used the N-word, which many people felt to be discriminatory. "That was wrong and I'm sorry," she said in her apology. My colleague Kevin Hagen describes today Baerbock's attempt to fight against the annoyance of those people who resent her for the language mistake and other mistakes of the last few weeks. The past few weeks have been hard on the Green leader and her party. "The anger about additional income, a faulty curriculum vitae, the plagiarism in Baerbock's book put her on the defensive," writes the colleague. »The Greens want to try something againget up, take the initiative in an election campaign in which nothing seemed to be going on for them. And Baerbock, who last looked pale and insecure, is right in the middle. "
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Baerbock in Heidelberg
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Baerbock's credibility has been damaged by the mishaps and blunders of the past few weeks.
Now she wants to make a comeback in the favor of voters.
To do this, she needs their forbearance and forgiveness - for many mistakes that, in retrospect, appear avoidable.
Can she hope for this indulgence?
"Nobody can lift himself higher than when he forgives", it says in Goethe's singing epic "Reineke Fuchs".
From an election point of view, the horrors of the flood disaster in western Germany last week could prove to be an opportunity for the Greens.
Climate change, the core issue of the eco party, is again a central issue in the political debate.
"Baerbock now just has to hope that it is her issues that determine the final spurt of the election campaign," says my colleague Kevin.
“If everyone is talking about the climate, the Greens certainly have a good chance of getting things done again.
Otherwise it will be difficult. "
Crisis greens: Baerbock's longing for the turnaround
Racism scandal about German bicycle official Moster: The damage is now much greater
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Health Minister Jens Spahn wants stricter rules to apply for travelers returning from Sunday - whether he will get through with the appointment still seemed uncertain today
From August 1st, that is the coming Sunday, all travelers returning to Germany who have not been vaccinated or recovered should submit a negative test before their entry, regardless of which country or which route they are traveling to Germany from.
It provides for a regulation advocated by Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn, which was negotiated today in the grand coalition.
The Ministry of Health also warned of a "trend reversal" in the corona numbers.
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Health Minister Spahn (archive picture)
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Clemens Bilan / EPA
My colleague Cornelia Schmergal and my colleague Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt report in their text about the upcoming tightening of the travel rules - and about the fact that risk areas should no longer be classified in three, but only in two categories: in high-risk areas and virus variant areas. This procedure should, they quote from the draft for the regulations, "make the regulation more understandable for the citizens". Whether the start date on Sunday can really be kept, however, remained open for the time being; the talks in the federal government and the ruling coalition continued today. The SPD-led Ministry of Justice had registered an objection. Other social democrats also see a need for discussion because they have doubts about the legal basis of the regulation.
Will the same test, quarantine and vaccination requirements apply to travelers traveling by car, train passengers and plane users from Sunday onwards?
"The new rules will be less confusing for vacationers," says colleague Cornelia.
“Especially since there will only be two types of risk areas in the future.
However, little will change in one problem: The controls are likely to remain patchy, especially where holidaymakers enter by car. «You can only appeal to reason, says Cornelia.
»Anyone who has themselves tested before their return journey and, if in doubt, goes into quarantine first, also protects others.
Even if nobody controls it. "
New corona rules for those returning from vacation: Spahn stays with the start date on Sunday
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The container ship "Ever Given", which blocked the Suez Canal in March, has arrived in the port of destination Rotterdam - it remains unclear at what price the Egyptian authorities released it
It is an instructive business crime and of course also a disaster story that took place in the Suez Canal at the end of March when the container ship "Ever Given" of the Evergreen shipping company ran aground and caught itself spectacularly.
Strong cross winds were probably to blame.
This morning the ship, now famous all over the world, finally arrived at the port of destination Rotterdam with its cargo, with a long delay.
Actually, it should have arrived on March 31st.
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The accident on the "Ever Given" caused shipping traffic to jam at both ends of the canal. After a team of around 600 engineers, tug masters and salvage specialists got the container ship free, the Egyptian authorities held it in the Suez Canal for around three and a half months. That was how long it took for the shipping company and canal authorities to agree on compensation for the blockade. Egypt had first demanded over $ 900 million and later $ 550 million in damages. The actual amount of the payment is unknown.
I am constantly amazed at the details of the transport of goods by sea that became known in the course of the "Ever Given" story. In the video of my SPIEGEL colleagues about the arrival of the ship in Rotterdam, one of the things you learn is that nobody seems to know exactly what it really was. The approximately 18,300 containers on the ship have to be unloaded in Rotterdam, but the shipping company apparently cannot say in detail what they contain. "Bicycle manufacturers and dealers speculate on eagerly awaited spare parts, video game fans on whether there is a larger load of Playstation and Xbox game consoles on board," said the colleagues' report. "All of this will only become apparent in the coming weeks." The crew of the giant ship will not disembark in Dunkirk for a few days, by the way.There the crash ship "Ever Given" is to be examined for possible damage.
"Ever Given" arrived in Rotterdam: It is here - at last
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What else is important today
The situation on the labor market is easing:
The corona easing is having an effect; for the first time since 2006, the number of job seekers fell in July.
"The situation on the labor market continues to improve," says BA boss Scheele.
Seehofer wants to stick to free
corona
tests: should
unvaccinated people soon pay for corona rapid tests?
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is against it.
He also rejects compulsory vaccination.
In view of the paralyzing vaccination campaign, he calls for more "calm".
Decay, looting, poor medical care:
the infrastructure has been destroyed, the medical care is "terrifying" and it is being looted: internal letters from the police show how bad the situation is in the flood areas.
Inflation has exceeded the three percent mark for the first time since 2008:
goods and services in Germany are becoming noticeably more expensive.
For the first time in 13 years, the inflation rate has risen above three percent.
But this is mainly due to a special effect.
Explosion in the Chempark - three other people recovered dead:
After the accident in the Chempark in Leverkusen, the death toll has increased to five.
There is little hope for two more missing people.
My favorite story today: Golden Bunny, you stay here
In the colorful, wide and sometimes amusing world of the administration of justice, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe today announced the decision that the golden hue of the chocolate Easter bunny from the Swiss manufacturer Lindt enjoys trademark protection.
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Gold bunnies in a Munich shop (archive image)
Photo: Amelie Sachs / dpa
On the one hand, this is a decision that I understand, because apparently a majority of consumers in Germany who are interested in chocolate bunnies associate Lindt's gold-colored bunnies with gold-colored bunnies.
On the other hand, the finding of the Karlsruhe judges in no way means that the competitor sued by the Swiss, a German manufacturer, is not also allowed to sell chocolate bunnies wrapped in gold foil.
A Munich court, to which the case has been referred, must now decide on this.
Among other things, it should check whether there is any risk of confusion between the rabbits of the two companies, which are sometimes decorated with red collars and bells.
According to the Federal Court of Justice, Lindt's color shade enjoys trademark protection
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
"At the moment I'm dreaming of water":
Petra Schmitt from Ahrweiler lost everything in the flood: her car, her apartment, her campsite.
But she doesn't give up - and fights for her old life.
"And then there is a culture of fear in addition to the pressure":
In the job, psychological problems are often a taboo.
The US gymnast Simone Biles has made her overload public.
Does this have a signaling effect beyond sport?
Resilience coach Karsten Draht on unhealthy double messages.
What also changes for vaccinated people thanks to Delta:
Double vaccinations and still infected - such cases will increase.
One reason for this is the delta variant.
How big is the risk?
And what do you need to consider in the future?
“I do not wish anyone what I have experienced.
But now I'm here «:
As a child, he toiled in Iraq and only started boxing because his father wanted to.
Now, ten years later, Ammar Riad Abduljabbar is reaching for an Olympic medal for Germany.
"Here live those who the rest of you have already forgotten":
Chest pain, hair loss, shortness of breath: more than 200 symptoms can occur as a long-term corona consequence.
In the Flechtingen Rehabilitation Center, those affected try to return to their old life.
But nobody knows whether that will work.
Which is less important today
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Jessica Schwarz, 44, got married
.
The actress, who appeared in great films such as »Don't Regret« and most recently in the box office hit »The Perfect Secret«, announced the wedding not with a verbose statement, but with an Instagram photo.
The picture shows Black, who is generally more reserved towards the gossip press, in a white dress while kissing with her partner Louis, who is dressed in a black suit and of whom many media only know the first name.
The two jointly operate a hotel complex in Portugal.
The couple's Instagram picture is adorned with the comment: "It was time."
Typo of the day
, now corrected: "Hitler did not address the audience as 'ladies and gentlemen', but as 'national comrades'."
Cartoon of the day:
DOSB
And tonight?
Could you watch the first episode of the "Me and the Others" series that just started on Sky.
The really extraordinary six-part series by the Austrian director and author David Schalko is a surreal, wild trip through the head of the main actor played by Tom Schilling, a man named Tristan.
The series works like a fairy tale.
For example, Tristan only has to wish for people's affection, and the wish will come true - and he will be adored as if he were a savior.
He is practically invulnerable while other people suddenly do strange things, throw their belongings out of the windows onto the street and beat each other's skulls bloody.
"I had never read a script like David's before," enthused the actor Schilling when I recently went for a portrait with him in Berlin.
"I had to laugh on the first page." I also find the finished series very funny.
A lovely evening.
Sincerely
yours, Wolfgang Höbel
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