Today it's about billions against hunger and destruction, precious minutes in the air and the question of whether burnout can be increased
24 votes for Moscow
Today in Berlin it's all about money.
"Christian Lindner paid," Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck announced the day before yesterday when he stood in front of the employees of the refinery in Schwedt and they asked how the plant could be saved even in the event of an oil embargo.
But a federal finance minister cannot decide on his own how "further measures to mitigate the consequences of the Ukraine war" are to be financed.
That is why the Federal Council is holding a special meeting today to discuss the corresponding Ukraine supplementary budget.
Billions are earmarked for economic aid and humanitarian aid.
They should not only flow to Ukraine, but also to developing and emerging countries that are falling into a food crisis as a result of the war.
My colleague Maria Marquart has written for you how the war is stopping grain exports from Ukraine.
The UN Human Rights Council in New York is also meeting today on the situation in the war-torn country, where Russian troops have massacred the civilian population.
Incidentally, up until a month ago there was still a Russian delegation on this body.
Moscow's membership was only suspended on April 7, ie after Bucha's murders became known - by 93 votes in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions.
Seems a lot of UN member states have a neutral to positive stance on a country that would like to wipe its neighbor off the map.
You can find more news and background information on the war in Ukraine here:
That happened at night:
shelling of residential buildings is reported from south-eastern Ukraine.
Joe Biden's billion-euro war aid package clears important hurdle.
And: Minister has to flee to bunker when visiting Kyiv.
The overview
"You are a very brave politician" - "And you are a very brave country":
dispute between Kiev and Berlin - was there something?
Foreign Minister Baerbock is the first German cabinet member to travel to Kyiv, Bucha and Irpin.
When she visits, she shows courage and finds clear words.
"The Russians are targeting our waterworks":
People in the Ukraine are in danger of running out of drinking water.
Olexandr Shkin, director of a water board, on Russian sabotage and why he is now most concerned about untreated sewage.
My neighbor, the occupier:
The Metchkalos had just finished settling in when Putin's soldiers marched into the settlement in Irpin.
While some complained of homesickness, others terrorized and killed.
I fly my plane
Are the joint holiday flights by Minister and Minister Lambrecht in government planes now a scandal?
Or is Christine Lambrecht the target of an evil media campaign, as the defense minister defended herself yesterday in the SPD parliamentary group?
As is so often the case, the legal situation meets gut feeling.
From a legal point of view, members of the government are allowed to take their relatives with them on official flights, provided they register this and pay an economy fare for it (although according to the »Bild« report, Lambrecht has apparently not yet transferred the money).
But is it a good idea to travel with your son during the war of all places?
And before going on holiday to Sylt, as an alibi, to visit a Bundeswehr location as close as possible, where there is apparently only one antenna field that intercepts electronic signals?
If Christine Lambrecht were an asset of the federal government, a defense minister who was passionately driving the turn of the era, motivating her troops, organizing the arms deliveries perfectly and calming the Germans with level-headed interview statements like a cooling hand on a feverish forehead, yes, then Lambrecht's family outing would be maybe just a message in the miscellany.
But the SPD woman is not Annalena Baerbock, who shone as the first German minister to visit Kyiv, if one can shine at all in a war zone.
But because the secretary of defense seems strangely passive and uninterested in her post, because it's known that she would rather have been secretary of the interior, and because the color of her shoes and nail polish seem more coordinated than her House's statements with the rest of the federal government - then she can turn a mosquito into a cheetah shell.
Two other things about the story fascinate me: Who in their early 20s still goes on vacation with their mother so often?
The Lambrechts are said to have made seven trips abroad in the last legislature when their mother was still Minister of Justice – to Slovenia, Helsinki, Liechtenstein, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Paris and Prague.
Well, maybe you should really only travel to Liechtenstein with your parents, that costs a lot of money, but Paris?
Prague?
Does Lambrecht Junior have no other friends?
And who do you think took the now-deleted Instagram photo of him in the government helicopter that sparked the scandal?
Was it the mother herself in the end?
The picture is not only an embarrassing boast, it also opens up a view of the cockpit of the Bundeswehr helicopter.
A defense minister should actually be more sensitive when displaying military equipment.
At the very least, she should have warned her son to only show the photo around in the shared kitchen.
Dispute over helicopter flight: Lambrecht speaks of "campaign" - SPD faction applauds
Guess who's coming to dinner!
Tonight the Federal Chancellor has a dinner date with what is presumably the greatest fun brake that a politician can encounter: the Federal Government's Corona Expert Council.
People are gathered here, most of whom see their task (possibly different: Hendrik Streeck) in having to warn the Germans and their federal government that the Covid 19 pandemic is far from over.
That it is sensible to continue to wear a mask indoors, to test yourself regularly and, of course, to get vaccinated and boosted.
It should be briefly noted here for the record that we media people naturally strictly adhere to the recommendations of this body.
Unless it's the federal press ball, then we jostle through the crowded corridors of the Hotel Adlon at the Brandenburg Gate, jubilantly and naked-faced.
In its latest statement from early March, the Expert Council writes that new virus variants are to be feared and that "the immune protection of the general population will not be sufficient" to prevent a new wave of infections.
And that it would be pretty good if politicians worked out “emergency strategies” that “can be implemented at any time”.
As you know the federal government, this preparation has certainly been in full swing since then.
Smiley!
No, seriously, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is actually preparing plans for the Corona autumn, which he should be presenting very soon.
Then the expert council will brood over the concept, and Hendrik Streeck will probably be the only one who cheers up the group with a joke.
And the only one who doesn't laugh is Christian Drosten again.
Incidentally, this topic inevitably raises the question of what actually became of the Corona General in the Chancellery.
Can Carsten Breuer also come to dinner?
Does anyone know if he is still in the Chancellery?
What do you think he does there all day, and does he do it in uniform?
Pertinent information from the readers of the situation is welcome.
Why the pandemic isn't ending: After Omicron is before Omicron
Just keep burning?
Diagnosis of burnout typically means a forced break from work.
After exhaustion and collapse, you have to struggle to pick yourself up again.
Even if it is difficult to imagine, psychotherapy has discovered an increase in burnout: "burn-on".
In an interview with my colleague Carola Kleinschmidt, the doctor Bert te Wildt explains what constitutes “burn-on”: patients who are deeply exhausted but do not collapse.
»You still go to work every day, function in everyday life.
It seems like they are about to collapse.
But they keep going.” They keep burning.
Those affected would sense that something was wrong with them, and the people around them would also notice.
"But when you ask them how they're doing, they keep insisting that their life is good and that their work is fun." Ultimately, it's like addicts who think they can continue to function.
"We really have to fight for access to these people," says Bert te Wildt.
Just looking around at my political interlocutors or in our industry, I fear: Mr. te Wildt is on the trail of something big.
Pressure to perform: "Even the best work makes you ill if you don't keep it moderate"
Winner of the day...
...is
Franz Müntefering
, 81. Tonight, SWR will broadcast an interview with the long-time SPD politician, who was Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister and State Minister, and who at some point has held almost every leadership role in his party and parliamentary group.
And the best thing about Münte: Although he would have a lot to say, especially in times of war, when the SPD is very much criticized for its Russia policy, he resists the temptation to constantly criticize or lecture the comrades who are active today.
The interview is broadcast from the Hofgut Himmelreich, a restaurant that strives to include disabled people in everyday working life.
I'm curious what the Social Democrat has to say.
Most recently, he only communicated with our editorial team by fax machine, but unfortunately the creaky Münte sound was not transmitted.
The latest news from the night
The first president of independent Ukraine dies at the age of 88:
He was one of the signatories of the agreement that sealed the dissolution of the Soviet Union: Leonid Kravchuk is dead. The head of the Ukrainian presidential office praised him as a "truly historical figure".
US government is against Bayer in billions of dollars:
This step could have a signal effect: In the ongoing dispute over the drug glyphosate and possible health risks, the US Department of Justice has positioned itself against Bayer.
The company is talking about billions.
Sri Lankan Defense Ministry issues order to shoot:
Sri Lankan authorities have ordered security forces to shoot at people who damage property or endanger life.
Earlier, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had called for an end to the violence.
The SPIEGEL + recommendations for today
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high energy prices?
He doesn't care, his house isn't connected to the electricity grid.
Graduate engineer Siegfried Delzer says: "We live self-sufficiently, and have been for 34 years." Here he reports how it works.
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I wish you a good start into the day.
Yours, Melanie Amann