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Fireworks over Hamburg
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The federal states governed by the CDU and CSU and Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) were successful with their initiative: firecrackers are banned on New Year's Eve and New Year's.
SPIEGEL learned this from the deliberations of the federal and state governments to break the fourth corona wave.
The sale of firecrackers and fireworks is therefore again prohibited this year.
According to this, there should also be a ban on fireworks in particularly popular places.
Corresponding compensation is planned for the companies affected as part of the planned economic aid.
An agreement on the entire resolution paper with other points was still pending in the early afternoon.
The sale of New Year's Eve fireworks was already prohibited across Germany last year due to the pandemic.
The aim was to protect the hospitals from overload - among other things, by preventing injuries when fireworks were set off on New Year's Eve.
On Thursday morning, the heads of the federal and state governments met again to discuss further tightening of the corona measures.
In the switching conference of the Prime Minister with the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and her likely successor Olaf Scholz (SPD), a comprehensive package of measures was to be decided.
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