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News of the day: Foreigners in - the Union has a migration problem

2022-12-01T16:55:26.922Z


How the conservatives can't find common ground on the issue of immigration. Why Pediatricians Cry. And how Germany still wants to stay in the World Cup tournament. This is the situation on Thursday evening.


1. Foreigners in

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Union faction leader Merz, regional group leader Dobrindt: No united position of the deputies of the CDU and CSU

Photo: Michael Kappeler / picture alliance / dpa

When the Bundestag votes tomorrow on whether only tolerated foreigners should be given a new, better right to stay in the future, the Union will not present a unified picture.

The leadership of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group wants to reject the traffic light coalition's draft law.

But according to information from my colleague Florian Gathmann, several Union politicians will probably deviate from this line.

After 19 members of parliament drafted a declaration that they did not find the traffic light law bad in every way, they could abstain tomorrow.

For example, the former CDU leader Armin Laschet and ex-Secretary General Hermann Gröhe.

What is the so-called right of residence?

The coalition wants foreigners not to be deported if they have lived in Germany for five years, have not committed a crime and meet other conditions within the next 18 months.

For example, they have to prove their identity, prove their knowledge of German and provide for their livelihood.

Then, but only then, can they get a permanent right to stay.

Well-integrated, law-abiding, hard-working: one would think that it should be a matter of course for conservatives in particular to accept such people in Germany with a kiss.

In fact, Germany even has a double migration problem.

Too few people come to us.

And too many hard-working and well-qualified people are leaving.

Instead of talking about limiting immigration, the Union should therefore also discuss the opposite questions from morning to night: How do we manage to get more people into the country and how to keep them?

Foreigners in - this demand does not come from multicultural dreamers, but from practically everyone who deals with the economy and our social security systems in a serious way.

The Federal Statistical Office has predicted it with cold precision: Without immigration, the number of people in work, currently around 44 million, would fall by up to 25 percent by 2060. No welfare system in the world is able to cushion this.

Especially not the German pension fund, which is similar to a snowball system.

The immigration debate should finally be turned on its head, and that also applies to the Union.

  • Read the whole story here: Union faction must reckon with dissenters in the fight against the traffic light law

2. Cough, cold, RSV

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A doctor listens to a child with a cold with a stethoscope

Photo: Robert Kneschke / Zoonar / picture alliance

As if Germany's doctors didn't already have enough to do with corona and flu, the next epidemic is now rolling on.

Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV for short.

It causes symptoms such as a runny nose, coughing, sore throat and, in severe cases, fever.

It is particularly dangerous for infants and small children, but also for adults with immunodeficiency or chronic respiratory diseases.

Apparently it's particularly bad in Berlin at the moment.

Paediatricians complain that there is hardly a free bed in the hospitals, and that there are also shortages in the surrounding area.

Sick children lay overnight in the rescue center.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach knows about the problem, but cannot offer a quick solution either.

My colleague Milena Hassenkamp accompanied him when he visited a children's clinic in Berlin.

There the minister advised that one should wear a respiratory mask to prevent infections - as if one had ever done anything else in the past Corona years.

Milena then called a pediatrician who has his practice near the hospital.

The doctor reported on his everyday practice, on long queues and long waiting times.

He commented on the minister's mask tip: "You start to cry."

  • Read more here: "That's when you start to cry" 

3. Will the World Cup continue for Germany?

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Costa Rica's winning goalscorer against Japan: Keysher Fuller

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IMAGO/UWE KRAFT / IMAGO/Uwe Kraft

Tonight from 8 p.m. Germany's national soccer team will play their final, decisive group game against Costa Rica.

A win is needed, otherwise the World Cup is over.

Actually, that shouldn't be too much of a problem;

after all, Costa Rica lost 7-0 to Spain.

But as my colleague Klaus Ehringfeld writes in his preliminary report, our opponent is building on the blockade strategy: "Close up, stand low, fight, don't let anyone in.

And so maybe still slip into the round of 16.«

And even if Germany wins, things could go wrong, as my colleague Christoph Scheuermann analyzed in his World Cup column today:

We go through with a win by at least two goals if Spain and Japan draw.

We go through a win by one goal if Spain and Japan draw and then Japan have scored fewer goals overall.

I read these sentences, but the letters blur in front of my eyes, like the lecture on higher mathematics in the basic course "Environmental Protection Technology".

They are the scenarios of hell.

I'm looking forward to the game.

Maybe we'll get there, maybe not.

I hope that the ARD moderators will explain to me in good time what will happen.

The national team's wives were allowed to go to their husbands' hotel before the game against Costa Rica. The DFB chef said he doesn't serve any red meat on the day of the game, only poached fish, pasta and vegetables.

And rice pudding.

The chef's name is Anton Schmaus.

Everything suddenly matters.

Everyone seems well prepared except me.

And that's good.

  • Read more here: How Strong (or Weak) Is Costa Rica Really? 

  • The mini column on the World Cup:

    The Scenarios of Hell

  • Click here for the World Cup live ticker

News and background to the war in Ukraine:

  • Xi reaffirms political solution to end war in Ukraine:

    China's President has again warned of a further escalation of the Ukraine war.

    However, Xi did not express any clear criticism of Moscow.

    EU Council President Michel, on the other hand, was clearer.

  • Russia sends military satellites into space, cyber attack on the Vatican:

    Kiev thanks Germany for recognizing the Holodomor as genocide.

    Russia has put a military satellite into orbit.

    And: excitement in the Vatican.

    The most important developments.

  • War isn't just what the Germans think it is:

    the debate about arms deliveries to Ukraine and possible negotiations with Russia suffers from a skewed view of history: the Germans have forgotten what occupation means.

    The Ukrainians don't. 

  • Find all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine here:

    The News Update

What else is important today

  • Elon Musk meets Tim Cook – and there is no longer a trace of “war”:

    Elon Musk struck wild tones to Apple at the beginning of the week.

    Now the Twitter boss was a guest in Cupertino and verbally switched down a gear.

    He also made a short tourist video.

  • China's Deputy Prime Minister sees the "new stage" of the pandemic reached:

    China's leadership had recently come under increasing pressure for its strict zero-Covid policy, and there are now signs of a change of course.

    Measures have apparently already been lifted in some cities.

  • Berlin allows bicycles and e-scooters to be parked free of charge in car parking spaces:

    Anyone who parks their bike or e-scooter in a public parking lot in Berlin should soon no longer have to pay for it.

    The new regulation provoked an outcry among motorists.

  • F35 fighter jets are said to cost the federal government almost ten billion euros:

    Olaf Scholz wants to place the order for US F35A fighter jets before the end of this year.

    According to SPIEGEL information, the deal will cost around 9.99 billion euros - and is associated with considerable risks.

My favorite story today: A railroad manager fares black

Ironically, the technical manager of the railway subsidiary DB Sales, Ralf Gernhold, was recently caught doing fare evasion.

He had paid, but bought the wrong ticket out of ignorance: Welcome to the Deutsche Bahn tariff jungle!

Gernhold described his experience himself on a job portal.

He was traveling in Munich and bought a ticket for local transport for 3.90 euros.

During the check, it turned out that the price was right, but Gernhold had chosen the wrong tariff zone.

Now he has to pay 60 euros.

The fine is justified, writes Gernhold.

However, he did not act with illegal intent.

For him, the black ride is an argument for the need for a nationwide uniform local transport ticket.

  • Read the whole story here: Technical director of Deutsche Bahn subsidiary accidentally fares in the black

What we recommend at SPIEGEL+ today

  • Apple and Tesla are caught in the China trap:

    the Chinese zero-Covid policy is increasingly becoming a problem for American corporations.

    As the US government seeks to weaken its geopolitical rival, key companies have made themselves dependent on it.

  • The Jesuit who became a radical climate activist:

    He sticks to the streets, rails against lobbyists and neoliberalism: Jesuit priest Jörg Alt risks a lot to save the planet.

    Why is he participating in the "Last Generation" of all things? 

    The attitude entertainer:

    Since his youth in the Bavarian provinces, Riccardo Simonetti has been attacked for his exalted manner.

    Running the gauntlet has made him an LGBTIQ* icon – and a TV star.

  • "Now don't say speed limit" - "You know me":

    SPD, Greens and FDP have been governing together for a year.

    Here Kevin Kühnert, Britta Haßelmann and Volker Wissing say what annoys them about the coalition, what they want - and whether they hope for a continuation.

  • F35 fighter jets are said to cost the federal government almost ten billion euros:

    Olaf Scholz wants to place the order for US F35A fighter jets before the end of this year.

    According to SPIEGEL information, the deal will cost around 9.99 billion euros - and is associated with considerable risks.

What is less important today: bestselling author Jonas Jonasson on his new book

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Author Jonasson: "Reality surpasses imagination"

Photo:

Frank May / picture alliance

  • Bielefeld's invention: Jonas Jonasson ("The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared"), 61, sends the main characters of his new novel on another journey through the world - this time also to Bielefeld.

    "I have to admit that I just liked the name Bielefeld," said the Swedish bestselling author in an interview with my colleague Agnes Sonntag.

    »Then I looked for a company on the map on whose premises some scenes take place.« Jonasson compliments his German audience in an interview: »My cheerful books sell very well in Germany.

    So the Germans definitely have a sense of humor.« 

Typo of the day

, now corrected: He is grateful for the opportunities he gets and he is sure that many people in the media industry have now understood that a structural change is important. 

Cartoon of the Day:

Inflation Planning

And tonight?

»Three Nuts for Cinderella« is a TV classic around the Christmas holidays

Photo: DPA/ WDR

Last Sunday afternoon my family and I opened the Advent season with tea, Baumkuchen and »Three hazelnuts for Cinderella«.

Although we've seen the Czech Christmas classic from 1973 at least ten times (my daughters more like thirty times), we all sat in front of the TV with bright eyes, drank about the prince's tights and were happy in the end that the mean stepmother and her daughter in mud falls while Cinderella rides across the fields with the prince.

And this music, wonderful!

In the coming weeks, the film will be shown again and again on various channels;

our culture department has kindly provided an overview.

We'll keep you posted on the air dates for Love Actually and Home Alone.


A lovely evening.

Yours sincerely,


Alexander Neubacher

Source: spiegel

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