Today the Bundestag is discussing a general obligation to vaccinate, and it can be felt that the enthusiasm for this has waned. This also applies to the economy, as opinion polls obtained from various chambers of industry and commerce show. Companies are reluctant to make vaccinations compulsory. Peter Adrian, President of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce tells us: “There is a similarly differentiated and committed discussion on the subject of compulsory vaccination as in society as a whole.”
According to Reinhold von Eben-Worlée, head of the Association of Family Entrepreneurs, the state should “not burden companies with compliance with such a standard. If the unvaccinated could share at least a proportion of the costs they incur for the healthcare system, compulsory vaccination would not be necessary.
- Vaccination compulsory from 18: Many social democrats are in favor of this, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The whole thing should be limited to one to two years, apply to a maximum of three vaccinations and be enforced with three-digit fines.
- Mandatory for people over 50: Individual FDP MPs and Greens suggest this. The condition is that the vaccination rate is still low after the mandatory doctor consultations.
- Against a duty: Liberals around Wolfgang Kubicki. The draft by the FDP deputy chief refers to the lower effectiveness of the vaccines and calls for better education. Members of the Union can also be found behind the application.
- Also against an obligation: the AfD. The party is also calling for the end of facility-related vaccination requirements in the healthcare sector.
Conclusion: A legislative decision in March is possible. But the Bundestag would still have to come to an agreement with the federal states, otherwise there is a risk of a mediation process. And without the federal states, compulsory vaccination would not be enforceable. We offer a pro and con to the problem.
Max Otte, 57, is an economist with whom it was easy to argue about the weaknesses of the economic system after the 2008 financial crisis. Now he’s a political brawler who loves the light, no matter who shines the spotlight on him. The fact that the leaders of the AfD presented him as a candidate for the office of Federal President and sulked about the “honorable politician” was probably a) appropriate and b) symbolic. After all, the head of the arch-conservative union of values has long tended towards the alliance between the Union and the AfD.
He probably planned the role of the “martyr” as an encore. Because the Otte errors gave the newly elected CDU leader Friedrich Merz the best opportunity to show leadership. Yesterday, the federal executive unanimously expelled the would-be Steinmeier from the party for the time being. Subito. Before Hans-Georg Maassen was caught at the “fire wall”, the ex-constitutional protection officer preferred to leave the union of values rather than the CDU.
Anyone growing up in the 1960s and 1970s couldn’t avoid Wanda Jackson’s song “Let’s Have a Party.” “Some people like to rock/ Some people like to roll/ But movin’ and grooving’s gonna satisfy my soul/ Let’s have a party” – dThe main lines fit perfectly with Boris Johnson, 57, the curly-haired rock’n’roller of politics.
The fact that Scotland Yard is now actually investigating how often 10 Downing Street in London became a party hot spot in the middle of the corona lockdown under Premier Johnson also sounds like a surreal song text. For the conservative head of government, it is of course highly dangerous that some of his co-celebrators could tell the police more than Sue Gray. The second secretary in the Cabinet Office conducted an investigation that will lead to a report this week. You can bet on the resignation.
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As the head of a large fund like DWS, you fear negative headlines. However, Asoka Wöhrmann is currently being served to a disproportionate extent with this. The “Financial Times” in particular refers to internal emails from 2017 and 2018 for articles – at that time the finance manager headed Deutsche Bank’s German private customer business.
Sometimes it’s about 160,000 euros for a Porsche, which he apparently received from entrepreneur Daniel Wruck, sometimes it’s about negotiations about the start-up Auto1. The e-mails about this went to a private e-mail address of Wöhrmann – from which he also sent e-mails about Auto1. That would be a violation of the code of conduct of Deutsche Bank, which is investigating the case. A DWS spokesman denied possible wrongdoing. Wöhrmann has been the target of “selective, misleading leaks” since summer 2021.
If we are already in ethical gray areas, Pierin Vincenz must not be missing. The ex-boss of the Swiss Raiffeisen banking group is on trial on suspicion of fraud, embezzlement and forgery of documents. The public prosecutor’s office accuses him of having spent 200,000 francs on company costs in strip clubs and contact bars – all “justified for business reasons”, Vincenz explained to the judge.
After business dinners, he continued talking in such establishments, drank expensive wine and tried to win entrepreneurs as customers. Once he also used the company credit card for dinner with a female Tinder acquaintance, who was looking for a job. The Confederates were so interested in this type of human relations that a concert hall in Zurich was rented for the trial.
Many are outraged by the way in which the Catholic Church ironed out its cases of abuse and still largely leaves them without consequences. A recently presented 1900-page report enrages Helmut Markwort, founder of “Focus”, media policy spokesman for the Bavarian FDP and member of the broadcasting council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (BR). He speaks of a “swamp” – and refers to Lorenz Wolf, the head of his own BR broadcasting council.
The long-standing prelate of the Archdiocese of Munich and chairman of the church court is a “central figure”, according to Markwort. And he made a significant contribution to “that serious abuse offenses were covered up and played down”. After the word of power, the FDP asked Wolf to resign from his position in the BR: “Under these circumstances, a change to the board of directors is of course out of the question.” The initiative, which is a shock, was even a case for the BR news.
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And then there is Andrea Nahles, 51, political comeback artist from the Eifel. The former SPD leader is leaving her post as president of the Federal Post and Telecommunications Agency for a larger, more important authority. At the end of June she succeeds Detlef Scheele as CEO of the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg. Nahles can implement parts of the SPD’s welfare state concept herself, which she had initiated in the party’s high office. The frustration over the social-democratic trench warfare, in which she failed, has escaped her.
Now there is a will to shape things, especially since she is closely entrusted with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He wasn’t surprised when she announced in 2008: “I have nothing against becoming chancellor.”
I wish you a happy day aiming high.
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Hans Jürgen Jakobs
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