After Butscha: CSU calls for realignment of German foreign policy
Created: 04/05/2022, 09:05
By: Felix Busjaeger
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt calls for more weapons for Ukraine.
In addition, German foreign policy is to be realigned.
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More weapons for Ukraine and a new German foreign policy because of Vladimir Putin.
The CSU demands this in view of the Ukraine war.
The politics ticker.
CSU demands more weapons for Ukraine.
Criticism of the elimination of the obligation to isolate people infected with corona.
Karl Lauterbach as a target for Corona opponents.
The political ticker informs about important events of the day.
Help in the Ukraine war:
Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been fighting in the war in Ukraine* for more than five weeks and so far there is no end in sight.
While the massacre in Bucha is causing international horror, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj* has announced that he wants a full investigation into the crimes against civilians.
To this end, they work together with the EU and the International Criminal Court, among others.
In view of the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia's President Vladimir Putin*, the CSU government called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow further arms deliveries to the Ukrainians.
"The pictures from Butscha hit the marrow and bone and show an indescribable breach of civilization in Russia," said CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt of the Augsburger Allgemeine on Tuesday.
The politician explained that a "further strengthening of Ukraine's defense capability with weapons, protected vehicles and reconnaissance technology" is now needed.
This support would not only have to come from the Bundeswehr, but also from industry.
In addition, "a realignment of our foreign policy, including a newly defined deterrence strategy, is necessary".
After the federal-state summit of health ministers: criticism of the elimination of the obligation to isolate and quarantine in the case of Corona
Criticism of the elimination of the obligation to isolate:
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and the health ministers of the federal states recently announced that the obligation to isolate and quarantine should expire on May 1st.
This advance is now causing opposition from experts and patient advocates.
In view of the high infection rates with the Omikron* variant and the subtype Omikron-BA.2*, this is currently a wrong impulse.
Currently, infected people can test themselves after five days of quarantine*.
“It is becoming increasingly dangerous for the high-risk group.
These people live among us, ”said the board member of the German Foundation for Patient Protection, Eugen Brysch, to the editorial network Germany.
Should an obligation to isolate now become voluntary, this would downplay an infection with the corona virus to the corona deniers.
While the quarantine obligation in Germany will thus fall, the new omicron variant XE* was discovered and different symptoms can indicate omicron*.
"If a person shows symptoms, then they should sit out the corona infection at home instead of infecting more people," epidemiologist Hajo Zeeb told RND.
Especially with the omicron variant there is a risk of the virus being passed on very quickly.
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach as the target of hostilities
Criticism of the SPD Minister of Health: Karl Lauterbach* (SPD) is a polarizing person.
Even before his appointment as Federal Minister of Health under Chancellor Olaf Scholz* (SPD), the SPD politician was omnipresent on German talk shows because of the corona pandemic.
Apparently, that didn't just get approval.
As Lauterbach himself announced, he was often a target for opponents of the measures in the past.
In a Tiktok video published by the Funke media group, Lauterbach said that he too was asked several times for his vaccination card.
Sometimes he was also denied access to restaurants.
However, not because there were problems with his vaccination status, but because he was Karl Lauterbach.
One thing is certain: Lauterbach is an attractive figure.
After the incident became known, the hashtag #LoKarlVerbot went viral on Twitter.
According to RTL, it is not known how many restaurants actually threw out the Minister of Health.
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