“The Greek prime minister wants to set a good example,” her correspondent commented Handelsblatt in Greece, Gerd Heller, referring to the capitals of Greece with the national climate law. According to the German journalist, “the Greek government links the hope for high-tech investments with the climate protection program. Greece expects grants of 17.8 billion euros and low-interest loans of 12.7 billion euros from the EU Recovery Fund in the coming years. “Almost 40% of the money will go to ‘green’ projects such as the phasing out of coal, the renovation of low-energy buildings, the expansion of the electricity grid and the storage of electricity, as well as climate-neutral transport.”
In fact, for the author, the passage of the law is considered certain: “Mitsotakis dealt with the issue of climate protection from a very early age, even as the leader of the opposition during the last decade. “This is part of his strategy to open the horizons of the conservative New Democracy party to the political center and beyond.”
Pandemic: The price of Freedom
The possibility of introducing compulsory vaccination divides public opinion and politics in Germany. In an article by h Southgerman newspaper, which is entitled “the price of Freedom” raises another, “critical” question as he characterizes it: Does coercion really help?
“If the federal government decides to make coronavirus vaccination mandatory, there will definitely be appeals against the decision. Public opinion has long been concerned about a possible ruling by the German Supreme Court in Karlsruhe. Several German constitutionalists have recently stated that, in their view, compulsory vaccination is in line with the Constitution. “As early as 2016, long before the coronavirus appeared, the scientific services of the German Parliament had found that a universal obligation to vaccinate was in line with the Constitution.”
However, as the newspaper points out, Republicans prefer persuasion: “Vaccine deniers include those with medical concerns. But also those who perceive compulsory vaccination as a state intervention. Although the courts accept compulsory vaccinations as a last resort, the vast majority of Republics have become very careful with compulsory vaccination. “They prefer to persuade rather than impose.”
Pandemic and domestic violence
The German press reports on the issue of domestic and domestic violence, on the occasion of the new data of the Federal Crime Prosecution Service for 2020. According to the data published by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, “last year 139 women and 30 men were killed by their partner. or their ex-partner, and nearly 150,000 cases of partner violence have been reported – and these are the only ones that have been included in the statistics. “The vast majority of victims are women and the vast majority of suspects are men.” In addition, the newspaper’s remark that “federal statistics do not show that the incarceration against the spread of the pandemic in 2020 sparked violence among comrades in the country” is interesting. THE taz Commenting on the same issue of domestic violence, he even referred to the fact that the German Minister of Justice in charge of family affairs, Christina Lambrecht, in contrast to her predecessor, Francesca Gifai, spoke of “murders of women, that is, murders of women because they are women.” .
DW – Chryssa Vachtsevanou
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