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From now on the entry ban applies.
That happened then quickly: powerful Entry ban for people from countries where there is a particularly contagious high prevalence Coronavirus-Varianten there, in force. According to the federal government’s decision, until February 17 a corresponding transport ban applies for airlines, railways, buses and shipping companies. They are initially affected Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa and Brazil.
The government ordinance establishes that the propagation dynamics of the variants in these countries is “worrying”. The measures were designed to “contain” its spread.
The exceptions to the rule apply to all Germans and foreigners living in Germany, as well as diplomats, transit passengers, and movement of goods. The Basic Law would prohibit the government from prohibiting Germans from returning to their own country of origin.
The Federal Police and the airlines in particular now have to do additional work. the Lufthansa It currently offers 55 round-trip flights per week to the affected countries, for example. It is not yet known for sure how many flights will be canceled. In any case, the airline must now ensure that all regulations are followed during transportation. At the same time, the federal police must strengthen its controls on the entry of people from the affected areas.
Even more drastic measures meanwhile the neighbor imposes France: The country closes its borders to all countries outside the European Union. The entry and exit of countries outside the international community will be prohibited from Sunday, Prime Minister Jean Castex said in Paris on Friday night. Exceptions should only be made if there is a good reason.
New protests expected in Russia
In Moscow and 80 other Russian cities there will be new ones on Sunday Protests against President Vladimir Putin and against the imprisonment of the Kremlin opponent Alexey Navalny expected. Putin and his security authorities are apparently so nervous that they are trying to silence the Kremlin critic’s close confidants before the demonstrations.
It’s Old School Soviet Tactics: Navalny’s Brother Oleg navalny and the head of his Moscow office, Oleg stepanow, they were like their doctor Anastasia Wassiljewa Placed under house arrest by a court from Friday until March 23. At the moment, you are no longer allowed to move freely or use the telephone or the Internet. In recent days, the security authorities had searched numerous apartments of members of the opposition.
The attorney general’s office also warned on Friday that if unauthorized demonstrations escalated into violence, participants could be prosecuted for “mass riots.” Navalny, who is currently in custody, encouraged his fellow campaigners. “Most are on our side. Let’s shake them, ”he said in a message.
Meanwhile, pressure on Putin from abroad is also growing. In Washington it was learned that the president of the United States Joe biden he had called for Navalny’s immediate release from prison when he called Vladimir Putin earlier this week. Next Wednesday the UN Security Council deal with the case. Hopefully the US government in particular Russia for dealing with the opposition will criticize harshly. This is new: under the old government of Donald trump Washington rarely criticized Moscow on human rights issues.
Scholz is thinking about more debt by 2022
After the proposal strongly criticized by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Helge Braun (CDU) to loosen the debt brake, it is now clear that the federal government wants to make another exception to the rule for next year’s budget due to the corona pandemic. This is what SPIEGEL reports, citing information from the Federal Ministry of Finance.
As in 2020 and 2021, the federal government is likely to incur much more debt than the maximum allowed of around 12 billion euros.
Consequently, one is expected in the Ministry of Finance. Debt amount of just under € 60 billion. The new loans would become finance ministers Olaf Scholz (SPD) in 2022 to save the resource to the asylum reserve, with which it wanted to cover the biggest budget holes for next year. Its experts are considering saving the reserve for the years from 2023 onwards. With the funds accumulated in this, the budgetary gaps that then arise could be closed and the requirements of the debt brake could be met again. In the past, nearly € 50 billion has accumulated in the reserve, of which Scholz actually wanted to withdraw € 28 billion in 2022.
Loser of the day …
… is the republican United States-Kongressabgeordnete Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Donald Trump supporter in Georgia was elected to the House of Representatives in the Congressional elections. Her faction even promoted her to the education committee. Now his presence there is causing a lot of trouble. Several Democrats ask him to lose his seat in parliament. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy pelosi, said the leadership of the Republican faction had to do something about Greene.
Because new details about conspiracy myths, which Greene is said to have supported prior to her time as a deputy, are known almost every day. She has long been seen as a supporter of the QAnon craze, according to which the United States (and the world) are supposedly ruled by a group of child eaters. According to US media reports, it should also be in Facebook they have spread that “Jewish bankers “ with – attention – laser beams from space said to have set off the California wildfires. The supposed objective: they would have wanted to accommodate a high-speed train.
Greene rejects all criticism of himself. She speaks, who is surprised? – of a conspiracy. Sure.
