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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The countries go to the Crown summit with Chancellor Merkel with a joint proposal. For CSU, however, the proposals don’t go far enough, especially with schools. Bavarian Prime Minister Söder wants to “sharpen” the paper.
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder calls for further tightening of previous state proposals ahead of crown deliberations of the federal and state governments on Wednesday. It has yet to fine-tune and supplement in some places, Söder said on the verge of a session of the state parliament in Munich.
Among other things, he wants to discuss again whether the relaxation of the contact restrictions foreseen for Christmas should also apply during New Year’s Eve or if the period should not be shortened. A resolution proposed by the minister-presidents of state on Monday night has so far stipulated that a household must be able to meet with up to ten people from outside the home between December 23 and January 1. Children up to 14 years old should be exempt from this.
Söder is behind this regulation for Christmas. For the extension of the period until New Year’s Eve, it would be necessary to discuss again “if it makes sense,” he emphasized. He called the earlier national document a good “middle step.”
Furthermore, Söder “urgently” demanded a more comprehensive strategy for the special corona hot spots, for example with even more stringent contact restrictions. Which incidence value regions should be considered such hot spots is yet to be discussed on Wednesday.
The leader of the CSU regional group, Alexander Dobrindt, made a similar statement. “I hope that we will find more specific agreements at the school level, which will later also apply to all parts of Germany.” Hybrid forms of teaching should be used much more, as is already the case in universities. This also includes alternate lessons. After the lateral movement of the infection curve in recent days, the curve should now be bent, Dobrindt said.
The longer the more expensive
He criticized the federal states’ proposal to be able to remove restrictions in case infection rates are reduced in certain regions: “What still belongs there is a consistent hotspot strategy.” If the infection rate is higher in certain regions than in the rest of Germany, there must be an opportunity to take stronger regional measures, Dobrindt demanded.
Saying that you are facilitating certain regions is not convenient. This would lead to behavioral changes and new infections in these regions. To get acceptance of the measures, one must be guided by a uniform procedure. This was to be understood as an indirect criticism of the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig, who is struggling with the tightening in view of the lower number of infections in the country.
Dobrindt made it clear that he expected more proposals from the Foreign Ministry for the meeting with the Prime Minister. “It would be surprising if the federal government did not add more ideas to this debate.” The federal government has a strong interest in rapidly reducing the number of infections. “The longer the off light lasts, the more expensive it will be.”
The federal government bears the greatest burden of costs: it goes to a 2021 budget with a new debt of 160,000 million euros and it is seen “that this cannot be extended indefinitely in the future. However, it is indisputable that the aid should also be extended when the measures are extended until December.
