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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) was unable to attend, as stated. For example, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (Vice President) met yesterday with German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his trip to Berlin. He spoke to Steinmeier mainly about Russia and Israel, Kurz said after the meeting.
Video: Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP) was in Berlin to talk.
He held more intense talks with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) and Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU). However, the issue of vaccine distribution was not an issue here either, as it was “a European issue and not a bilateral issue,” Kurz said. In any case, it assumes that Germany will not block a decision at the EU level.
The subject of the meeting with Seehofer was the discontent of Tyrolean state politicians over the stationary border controls to Tyrol that Germany had extended for two weeks.
The Governor of Tyrol, Gnther Platter (VP), spoke of an “unjustified Chicana.” He referred to the Moselle region of France, where the proportion of the South African variant among those infected is four times higher than in Tyrol, but there are no restrictions on border traffic.
Seehofer had promised to dismantle border controls as soon as possible, “maybe even in March”, Kurz spoke of a “very positive outlook”. In any case, border controls would be lifted before the Green Pass takes effect.
In the evening, the Chancellor praised the founders of Biontech, zlem Treci and Ugur Sahin, who received the “Axel Springer Award” for their invention of the vaccine.
