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Parcel boom and much traffic at Christmas
(GermanPolicy.com) – Deutsche Post reported a parcel boom on Christmas Eve which was celebrated yesterday: The quantities of gift parcels were roughly at the level of 2020, after the demand on Black Friday and Cyber Monday was even stronger than a year ago. Clothing in…
Coalition agreement prompts “confidence”
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to the coalition agreement of the traffic light parties – SPD, Greens and FDP – 400,000 new apartments are to be built per year, and the rent brake is to apply until 2029. In addition, the minimum wage is to be raised…
Altmaier and Juncker on the importance of Angela Merkel
(GermanPolicy.com) – The name of the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel will in future be cited on an equal footing with Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt, and Helmut Kohl. This is what Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier (CDU) has said. Merkel, an “exceptional Chancellor,” has been…
Scholz wants to initiate a general vaccination requirement
(GermanPolicy.com) – The designated Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has announced that a legislative process for a general vaccination requirement will be initiated before the end of 2021. The Bundestag vote should take place without any group pressure. The compulsory vaccination should then be implemented…
Lauterbach: Corona measures will be sharpened before Christmas
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to Karl Lauterbach (SPD), the Corona measures will be tightened before Christmas. Closing bars, clubs and discos is no alternative given the drastic increase in infections. In addition, there will be a mask requirement at schools and restrictions for people who are…
Covid-19: knowledge about the mere genetic infectiousness of Omikron is inconclusive
(GermanPolicy.com) – The virologist Alexander Kekulé has expressed that he is not yet convinced that the new Omicron variant of the Coronavirus is significantly more infectious than the variants that have occurred so far. Vaccination breakthroughs are possible, but genetic information alone cannot conclusively determine…
A large majority of Germans for a lockdown and compulsory vaccination
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to a Forsa survey, 65 percent of people in Germany are in favor of a lockdown with the closure of shops, clubs, and leisure facilities, exit and contact restrictions, as well as a ban on larger events. Even if the number of…
Highest court judges the Federal Emergency Brake to be constitutional
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Corona emergency brake with exit and contact restrictions was proportionate in view of the dangerous situation in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court announced in a judgment. The judges do not deny that the measures against the Corona pandemic had significantly interfered with…
Merkel and numerous prime ministers for compulsory vaccination
(GermanPolicy.com) – Chancellor Angela Merkel has described the current pandemic situation as “highly dramatic”. The current measures against Covid-19 are not sufficient; one reaches the limits of the ability to act if the 2G rule should not be sharpened. Government spokesman Seibert has meanwhile emphasized…
A new German law against the Covid-19 pandemic
(GermanPolicy.com) – The German Bundestag has passed new regulations to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Among other things, after approval by the Federal Council, 3G regulations will come into force in the workplace – with the obligation to present negative tests for those who have neither…
Heil: risk of loss of wages if vaccination is lacking
(GermanPolicy) – Hubertus Heil (SPD), the acting Federal Minister of Labor, has announced that after the new Covid-19 rules have passed the Bundestag and Bundesrat, people who have not been vaccinated are at risk of losing wages if they do not submit up-to-date and negative…
Vaccinations to be compulsory in nursing professions
(GermanPolicy.com) – A vaccination obligation for employees in the healing and nursing professions should apply in the future with a view on the Covid-19 pandemic. This was announced by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU). Hospital employees and integration assistance facilities will also…
