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What happened?
• “Can’t go into autumn with this vaccination quota”: The German vaccination rate continues to lame. The virologist Christian Drosten therefore expects contact restrictions soon and calls vaccination fatigue “a big problem”. He reckons with social restrictions on contact.
• The Wahl-O-Mat for the federal election 2021: With which parties do you have the greatest agreement in the federal election? Try it out now!
• At least fifteen people die in New York floods: Spring tide in the subway, cars drifting in the water. The streets of New York are turning into life-threatening rivers. Buses are flooded, subways come to a standstill.
• “No white people” – Müller criticizes the HU job advertisement as “great stupidity”: Berlin’s governing mayor found clear words for a job advertisement from the Humboldt University. The HU has now corrected the text.
• Social Democrats strongest political force – SPD clearly depends on the Union in further surveys: The SPD with Olaf Scholz is making strong gains in the latest election polls. The union with candidate Armin Laschet, on the other hand, does not come out of its low.
What was discussed?
• Criticism of portal against tax fraud: Only scandalization is scandalous. Because he wants to intensify the fight against tax fraud, Baden-Württemberg’s finance minister is in the pillory. Felix Hackenbruch asks himself where the problem is.
• GDL strike – Scheuer’s last big mistake: The stubbornness of GDL boss Claus Weselsky is also the result of a questionable deal with the competing trade union EVG. A comment by Caspar Schwietering.
• Negative campaigning – targeted by the manipulators: Attempts to damage the integrity of the federal elections along the lines of the American model are increasing. A guest contribution by Sudah David-Wilp and David Levine.
• Show your size as the best? Not if your name is Ronaldo: Ronaldo has broken a new record in world football. And above all, he pays tribute to his great achievement himself, which does not testify to greatness. Claus Vetter comments.
What should subscribers read inside?
• Pandemic expert advocates “trade-off” with Corona: Sars-CoV-2 will stay, says Jeremy Farrar. You have to come to terms with the virus, measures such as school closings are no longer appropriate: “We have to accept 30,000 Covid deaths per year.”
• AfD-affiliated judges and prosecutors: “The neutrality of the judiciary is in danger.” Right-wing populism in judgments, AfD-affine judges, right-wing lay judges. The book author Joachim Wagner says: The AfD is the first right-wing party to radiate into the judiciary in this way.
• Union in a downward spiral – Friedrich Merz’s worries: Many in the Union long for it. And Friedrich Merz fights, finally wants to win again. If it weren’t for Armin Laschet. Concerning the CDU, he found a new ally in a Brandenburg veterinarian.
• When children break up with their parents: “I never wanted to see her again.” They were constantly compared: there was no tenderness, consolation or affection. Then she abruptly broke off contact with the mother, rapprochement seemed impossible for a long time.
What can we do?
Alexis Sorbas watch – and listen: He was popular as a composer and inconvenient as a Greek folk hero. The power of songs – an obituary for Mikis Theodorakis.
Go to the cinema and laugh: Michelle Pfeiffer as an upper-class widow in financial difficulties. Director Azazel Jacobs sends Pfeiffer on a turbulent trip to Paris in his comedy “French Exit”.
What should I know for tomorrow?
New beginning for Cologne’s historical city archive twelve years after the catastrophe: It was the biggest construction disaster in Cologne’s post-war history. On March 3, 2009, the building of the historical city archive on Severinstrasse in the southern part of the city collapsed during underground construction work. A good twelve years after the accident, a new building will be opened on Friday at the Eifelwall on the edge of the city center.
Everything’s so colorful here: The “Festival of Lights” begins on Friday. Numerous buildings and squares in the capital will be brightly illuminated (until September 12th).
Number of the day:
18.-ter and last in the table of the first football league. The mood at Hertha BSC is bad. Now manager Fredi Bobic is criticizing coach Pal Dardai. The quasi had offered his resignation.
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