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How difficult will the confinement be?
It should come as no surprise that the chancellor is the current one Crown-off it’s still too soft. But now i want Angela Merkel Discuss possible tightening with prime ministers even earlier than originally planned. The fear of an explosion in the number of infections caused by the new corona mutations, which Merkel also warned yesterday at the CDU presidium meeting, is too great. Today Merkel will continue her telephone chain to the state chancellery in order to sound an earlier date for the next prime minister’s conference, the result should be known in the course of the day.
Last night the Countries governed by the SPD already exchanged on a telephone switch, and according to information from our editorial team, the group is generally not contrary to a previous quote, but the content should again some retire. Rather than tightening at the national level, as Merkel apparently would like to see, some would prefer to create a “custom mix of tightening and easing” for their respective countries, it is said. Ah, federalism! What doesn’t kill us makes us tougher.
Based on information from my colleagues, the Chancellor apparently asked the railways and the Ministry of Transport in late October whether a reduction or even a possible total stop of local and long-distance public transport to be. The problem of a mere reduction is obvious: more people willing to travel would push for fewer trains. I’d be better like the prime minister of Saxony Michael Kretschmer last night at Maybrit illner He said that somehow the Germans could be made voluntarily less bus and train use. That rail traffic is completely closed by the state, one »#MegaLockdown« It comes frankly beyond my imagination. Each and every one of us may have literally been left on the road with a Deutsche Bahn train, but there was always the comforting prospect: “The next one will come soon” (well, or sometime), just like an old train. – Advertising media.
The chancellor must be given one thing: So far, the woman, who can probably remember 300 decimal places of the number pi, is still right with her grim forecasts from Corona.
How beautiful can a biography be?
Books about politicians They are not always a pleasure to read, especially those of journalists, I have to self-critically admit for our industry. Some works are carelessly applauded collections of articles and anecdotes from the main occupation of biographers, others are benevolent to the point of shame. The portrait of Dan morain on the future vice president of the USA Kamala harris I still couldn’t read an interview with my colleague. Marc Pitzke with Morain gives hope that a critical insider is dealing with America’s first non-white, non-male person in this office.
The biographer has known Harris since the mid-1990s and, as a journalist, has published many critical comments about her. “She was not the best attorney general,” he says. “Others were much more aggressive, much more involved in bigger issues than they were. Harris avoided big questions. “Morain cites this as an example death penalty, for whom Harris is attorney general in California never took a position to have. But his mix of Toughness, charm and hard work leads the author to the forecast: “She has the potential to be a really important vice president.”
By the way, you can in this election year of the Bundestag We also await a political biography written by a SPIEGEL editor: My colleague Anna Clauss has portrayed Markus Söder, who is known to occasionally “sidestep important issues” but mostly “take a stand”, to put it cautiously. Does he have the potential to become “a really important chancellor”? When Expert in CSU and feminism Anna is well qualified to answer. Read them for yourself starting February 2.
How messy can an office change get?
The inauguration of »Joseph R. Biden Jr.« (as the New York Times always correctly calls it) is coming, that Indictment procedure for the outgoing president Donald J. Trump is in full swing, how come Investigation into the assault on the US Capitol. The security authorities did not see the storm coming, although dozens of participants took them out of their own. »Terrorist detection database« must be known. But authorities are now more eager to investigate the unrest, and every day there are new reports of the arrests of figures who caused chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill.
Now a man is detained who had traveled to the Trump rally wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweater and the inscription “Arbeit macht frei”. The fact that he is held responsible for his involvement in the attack on Capitol Hill is only a small consolation – that those sweaters even exist and that no one in Trump fan circles bothers about them is in itself depressing. Not all the outfits that were seen in the mob can be attributed to Trump. But probably the responsibility for the carelessness of the troublemakers he faced tweeted for years It has to be said that one can say unspeakable things with impunity.
Amid the multiple political analyzes and reconstructions of the last days of Trump’s term, a Washington Post report stands out on what is perhaps the only topic on which nothing has yet been read: the First Family sanitary facilities. Ivanka M. Trump and Jared C. Kushner apparently left the Secret Service Agentswho were posted for their protection do not use any of the six bathrooms in their private home. The agents had to evade, first to the house of a neighbor named Barack H. Obama, then to a Dixi toilet on the sidewalk, then to an apartment rented for $ 3,000 a month. You’d think this story is easy to tell, but the Washington Post’s lengthy account contains more dirty details about the first clean family than anyone could have imagined.
Winner of the day …
…is for me Ulf leisner. Never heard? Well, I would say. Beyond the CDU and journalists, his face can only be recognized by political fans who like to watch party conferences and election campaign dates on television: Leisner is the older man with the glasses and the worried expression that used to be in front or behind. Angela Merkel he ran behind (later behind AKK) to pave his way through the crowd. The Saxon has been for 20 years Federal Vice Director General of the CDU and responsible for party events like this weekend’s, and is said to have always taken this job very seriously, including inspecting hotel beds for his longtime boss Merkel, they say at headquarters. of the party.
The CDU virtual party congress that begins today will be Leisner’s 33rd, but if it will be his last, he would prefer not to commit, even if the pension calls him next year. After all, he gets along with all three candidates and has been on Twitter for a long time. His favorite party convention was in Hamburg in 1990, says Leisner. “That was incredibly impressive for us, Ossis. We didn’t even know about such events, the receptions, the crowded halls ”. This time the room will be empty.
