Corona law in the news ticker: Central demand from Karl Lauterbach should come

Showdown in the German Bundestag: Parliament is discussing the Corona draft law by the traffic light coalition this Thursday.

There are strong headwinds from the CDU and CSU.

The news ticker.

• Corona law in the Bundestag

  : This Thursday (November 18th) the parliament is deliberating on the draft of the "traffic light" (

  see first report of November 17th

  ).

• Still-Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), the rules do not go far enough, a central demand from Karl Lauterbach (SPD) should come.

• This

  news ticker on the corona legislative process in the Bundestag

  is updated regularly.

Munich / Berlin - Germany looks spellbound on the Platz der Republik 1 in Berlin this Thursday (November 18th).

Here, where the German Bundestag is located, the parliament comes together to deliberate on the Corona draft law of the possible traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP.

Ultimately, in order to vote on the draft resolution of the three parliamentary groups of the (probably) future federal government in the readings.

There was plenty of criticism from the Union in advance: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) * considers the current plans of the "traffic light" in the fight against the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic * to be insufficient.

Everything must be done to stop the exponential increase in the number of corona infections, said Merkel on Wednesday, according to information from the

at a hybrid meeting of the Union faction in the Bundestag.

Merkel is said to have said that what is currently being discussed by the traffic light parties is not sufficient for this.

Corona law (Bundestag) in the news ticker: Union and Angela Merkel put pressure on "traffic lights"

It was only in mid-November, but the situation was much more tense than it was before last winter, said the 67-year-old.

The Chancellor was further quoted as saying: “It worries me very much.

I would like to say something happier.

Unfortunately, I can't do that. ”The Bund-Länder-Round, i.e. the Corona summit, will also have to deal with the question of when to go beyond measures such as 2G - access only for convalescent and vaccinated people - this Thursday.

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After almost 33 months of pandemic, German politicians are once again refining the confusion of federal competencies on the most uniform corona rules possible - for retail, schools and day-care centers, the workplace, sport and gastronomy.

One thing was already considered certain a day before the debate in parliament: A central demand from SPD Corona expert Karl Lauterbach should come - namely a nationwide 2G rule * for almost all areas of public life.

Corona law (Bundestag) in the news ticker: Central demand from Karl Lauterbach (SPD) should come

"We have to rely on 2G wherever it is somehow possible", Lauterbach

had already told

the

at the beginning of November. A few days later, when asked by the

, the Rhinelander added

: “The most important decision would now be to introduce and control the 2G regulation across the board. In my opinion, no measure has a similar meaning for the infection process, and I don't understand why we hesitate for so long. ”Now politicians in Berlin obviously no longer want to hesitate to switch to the 2G rule *.

Follow the corona legislative process in the Bundestag this Thursday in the news ticker.

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