The situation in the morning - has the traffic light already buried the general compulsory vaccination?

When you don't know what to do next ...

... call a conference of

! Today the rulers of the federal states are meeting again with

in the Chancellery. Are you that excited too? No? That is understandable, because there are no major changes in the draft resolution. Contact restrictions? Everything remains as it is. Clubs and discos? Still closed. Compulsory vaccination? No new details. Epidemic situation of national importance? Not reactivated, even if the traffic light government members of the federal states demand this, in order to be able to react quickly to the rolling omicron monster wave if necessary.

The most important and decisive change: From January 15, a fresh negative test should be necessary for visits to restaurants, including those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered. Only those who have been boosted are exempt in order to increase the incentive for the booster vaccination, as it is called from government circles. In addition, they want to relax the quarantine rules in order not to send too many people into isolation at the same time because of Omikron.

What does

think about the planned resolutions? No media appearance in the last time, whether on ZDF, RTL / ntv or in the editorial network Germany, where Lauterbach did not put stricter contact restrictions in the room. Which one exactly? Then the answers became vague. Nothing of the sort is now in the draft of the MPK resolution paper. Lauterbach's own expert council has only just warned that politicians must be ready to "further intensify the contact restrictions at short notice" because of Omikron. That would actually be a good topic of conversation for the MPK.

No major uprising is to be expected from Lauterbach,

.

In the draft paper, you are missing details on the compulsory vaccination that Chancellor Scholz had actually announced for "late February, early March".

But a Bundestag debate on the subject has just been postponed.

In general, there has been no legal concept so far.

It is sorely necessary if one does not only want to require certain professional groups to vaccinate, but the whole country.

How does the state want to record which citizens submit and which withdraw?

How exactly should refusers be sanctioned?

And what does the Federal Constitutional Court say about compulsory vaccination if the effect of the vaccine wears off after a few months?

When variants like Omikron cause the disease to progress more mildly?

From the beginning, the project of

seemed confused and ill-considered.

At first politicians rejected it across the board.

At the end of 2021, everyone suddenly felt in favor.

And at the beginning of the year nobody is talking about it anymore - only decided opponents like the liberal Wolfgang Kubicki.

Will that still be something?

Given the headlessness, one almost hopes for the opposite.

Practical for the traffic light: Since the issue has been raised to a decision of

, diligent officials do not work out a draft law, but the MPs themselves work in groups for and against.

This is a great way to drag on a topic.

Incidentally, in the

, the compulsory vaccination is on trial today: The

is examining whether Joe Biden's government was allowed to oblige health care workers and large companies to vaccinate.

• Analysis: When Omikron could become dominant in Germany - and where it has already happened

"Peacekeepers" from Moscow

Yesterday's loser

, President of

, has called on Russia for military aid against the protesters in his country. Even today, the political protests are unlikely to end, they are growing into an

against the authoritarian regime. Dozens of people died, hundreds were injured, and 2,000 protesters were arrested in the Kazakh capital alone. In order to stifle the demonstrations, Tokayev is apparently even prepared to sacrifice 30 years of independence of the ex-Soviet republic of Kazakhstan from Russia.

As our Moscow correspondent Christian Esch analyzes, it does not matter to Kazakhstan's president how many

Moscow actually sends him as reinforcements - it depends on the signal. “The signal is aimed at his own security forces, who are currently faced with the question of whether or not to go over to the demonstrators. If Russia and its troops are behind the regime in the capital Nur-Sultan, then that should deter potential deserters. "

The protests come at an inopportune time

for Russian President

So far, his energy has been focused on preparing for a possible intervention in Ukraine.

And it is unclear, said colleague Esch, how Kazakh society will react to the Russian presence.

One thing is clear: the situation in

is not easing a bit because of the unrest in Kazakhstan.

Today the NATO foreign ministers will connect by video and discuss the situation.

• Russian soldiers in Kazakhstan: Putin sees an opportunity

Trapped in the ECB tower

What can central bankers do to slow the

spiral? In the euro countries, all eyes are on ECB boss

. The Frenchwoman started out a good two years ago as a new type of

, with an openness to the fears of Europe's savers and sensitivity to the pressures of the climate crisis. But there is not much left of that, reports our Brussels correspondent Michael Sauga in an analysis that is well worth reading: "ECB boss Lagarde has become a prisoner of European financial policy," he sums up.

While other monetary watchdogs would again rely on more traditional instruments in the inflationary phase, in particular would raise the key interest rate, Lagarde downplayed the inflation surge as a "temporary phenomenon".

The head of the European central bank looks as if she is not up to date, criticizes Sauga, and ignores specific inflation risks such as the economic consequences of the corona pandemic.

In part, Lagarde's weak reaction to inflation can also be explained by the specific constraints of the euro zone, writes Sauga: "The central bank chief wants to keep interest rates low in order to protect the highly indebted governments of southern Europe." Ultimately, the French woman is a "prisoner of the Europeans." Financial Policy «.

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Loser of the day ...

...

, the best tennis player in the world, is currently in compulsory quarantine in an

. Djokovic is almost certainly not vaccinated against Corona. Therefore, he had obtained a medical exemption to enter the country and take part in the Australian Open. But shortly after his entry, his visa was withdrawn because the documents that Djokovic presented apparently do not provide any medical exemptions for unvaccinated people.

"Rules are rules," declared Prime Minister Scott Morrison. I can understand the hardship a little, because my best friend and family live in Australia, has not seen her (vaccinated) family in person for almost two years because of the tough entry and exit rules during the pandemic. Granted, my girlfriend doesn't play world-class tennis. But should that make a difference?

For Prime Minister Morrison, however, the Morrison case is also a welcome distraction from his domestic political difficulties, says my colleague Johannes Korge in Brisbane: The Omicron variant is rampant, currently almost 80,000 new infections have been counted within 24 hours.

Morrison's government would have been in great trouble, among other things, because it did not want to subsidize or finance the Australians' home tests.

The public test centers are therefore completely overloaded.

Djokovic has a long weekend ahead of his forced domicile, which is not very luxurious, before a court will deal with the question of his deportation on Monday.

The latest news from the night

• Canada's premier calls celebrating influencers "idiots":

  Videos show young people drinking vodka and without virus protection on an airplane: Justin Trudeau has now made clear statements about this derailment of his compatriots.

  The party people are stuck in Mexico for the time being

• Fight against Omikron:

  Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach demands further contact restrictions - especially for the interior of restaurants: "Only those who have been boosted can get in that way."

• "Offer home office wherever possible":

  The new mutant of the coronavirus is also having an impact on the world of work in Germany: Minister Hubertus Heil urgently pleads for more home offices - that is a question of social solidarity

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