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WSJ Iran Rejects Offer of Direct Nuclear Talks with US Increasing Tension with West Rejection Unlikely to Kill Diplomacy, But Time Is Running Out for Persian New Year and Iranian Elections Iran has refused an offer by the European Union to hold direct nuclear talks with the United States in the coming days, risking renewed tension between Tehran and the Western capitals. Senior Western diplomats said Iran's response does not nullify the Biden administration's hopes to revive diplomatic efforts to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, concluded between Iran and six world powers and abandoned by the Trump administration in 2018. But they said it appeared to have stalled: Iran wants a guarantee that it won't walk away from a meeting with the US without some relief from sanctions, something Washington has so far ruled out. With Tehran stepping up its nuclear activities in recent months in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal, the United States conducting airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Syria and the Iranian presidential election in June, diplomats warned that opportunities to ease tensions could now be jeopardized. FT Rapid Vaccine Rollout Will Spur Economic Recovery Faster Than First Feared Rapid Spread of Covid-19 Vaccines Will Foster Faster Economic Recovery, Requiring Fewer Tax Hikes Than Feared, Official Budget Forecasts Will Show this week, with the number of people receiving their first injection over 20 million. Rishi Sunak is still worried about "enormous tensions" in public finances and paved the way for tax increases in the budget on Wednesday when he told the Financial Times on Friday that he wanted to "level" with the people on the need to contain loans. But the outlook has improved significantly this year thanks to the vaccine program. "The successful launch of the vaccine is a material change in recent months," said a person close to the budget process. Some Treasury insiders have talked about a £ 40 billion tax hole by the end of the current parliament in 2024, but people familiar with the matter said this is now expected to be less. In November, the OBR thought the tax gap was £ 29 billion. Daily Express Rishi: I will continue to spend to get Britain moving The Independent Public opinion supports new taxes on the wealthiest and the business world ComRes survey. The majority of Brits are willing to accept an increase in income taxes to support the recovery of the economy. The poll comes as the debate on the inevitable increase in taxes is ignited in the Conservative Party. Bild The SPD will put an end to the Merkel lockdown Relaxation of restrictions even with weekly incidence of infections above 50. And then: yes to summer holidays, yes to beer gardens and at the Budensliga a little more normal: Deputy Chancellor Olaf Scholz sees a Germany on the road back to normal. There must be a national strategy and not left to the initiatives of the individual Land SZ The SPD wants clear criteria for easing restrictions Li asks before the Federal Chancellor's meeting with the prime ministers of the Lander on Wednesday, Rolf Mützenich, president of the SPD parliamentary group: "I imagine good governance differently" Welt Spahn in the coronavirus crisis increasingly under pressure Three quarters of Germans in favor of reopening in March, indicates an Insa poll. 75% are in favor of opening retail stores in March, while only 17% are against. 54% of respondents want to reopen restaurants and pubs, 64% are in favor of the complete reopening of schools and nurseries. Meanwhile, according to the survey, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has become unpopular: 56% of respondents said they were "rather dissatisfied" with his job, only 28% are satisfied. In view of the rapid tests, Deputy Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) calls for a change of strategy in the virus containment policy: "I insist that on Wednesday we formulate a concrete opening perspective", says the candidate chancellor of the SPD. The day after tomorrow, the heads of government of the Lander will discuss again with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). FAZ The prime ministers of the Lander ask for a relaxation of the rigidity of the national vaccination scheme to avoid wasting doses. Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has proposed that hundreds of thousands of unused doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine from federal state depots be released for vaccination for all. "Before it goes unused: we vaccinate whoever wants it. No dose of Astra-Zeneca should be left aside or thrown away. Because all vaccinated people protect themselves and others," Söder said yesterday. Germany must speed up vaccinations: "Every day counts." It may not be that on the one hand there is too little vaccine, but on the other the Astra-Zeneca vaccine "is not accepted by many". The Bavarian head of government is therefore fighting for a nationwide regulation to loosen the vaccination sequence for the Astrazeneca vaccine. In addition, the vaccine should also be able to be inoculated by family doctors. Tagesspiegel The prime ministers of the Lander ask to be able to administer the Astra Zeneca vaccine to everyone. Merkel's containment strategy is dead and buried: voices are increasing in open dissent with the policy of a prolonged national lockdown. He is no longer just the Union leader Ralph Brinnkhaus: everyone is now saying that we need to focus on mass vaccination and do much better, as the UK teaches. Germany, like the European Union, suffers from an excess of rules in the approval of vaccines and their distribution; the same for the spread of rapid covid -19 tests. A national lockdown until May with the impossible goal of 'zero covid' will not work, the Germans are stressed. Le Soir Belgium is the third most affected country in Europe by Covid. Vaccination, a change of pace is needed. The image of empty vaccination centers undermines citizens' morale and support. The strategy must change. The alternatives to accelerate are on the table: among these, the authorization of the Astra Zeneca vaccine for over 55s. Presidential Liberations, macronism in full denial Over the weekend, the front page of Liberation on the many left-wing voters who refuse to vote again Macron to block Marine Le Pen's path sparked violent reactions in the Republique en Marche. Behind which, argues Libé, concern is growing. The question questions the left. Interview with the secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, who accuses the head of state of having taken part in the game of the far right by staging a "duel". He hopes the left will raise its head a year before the presidential elections. "Libé says Faure - he just echoed what I have been hearing for months. Disillusioned voters, it is not the first time. But this time the anger is more powerful, because the power has not manifested itself for what it is. This tale of" both right and left "amplified the feeling of betrayal. Claiming to embody the circle of reason alone, disqualifying parliamentary debate, bypassing intermediate bodies, despising locally elected politicians, the president organized the debate as the extreme right. He chose it as his counterpart. " A recent Odoxa poll for France Info says that 66% of French people do not have a good opinion of the Socialist Party, do not feel it close to the people, and 74% think it may even disappear. 63% of socialist sympathizers also think so. Le Figaro Climate law: Macron facing the trap of radical ecology Gathered for the last time this weekend, the members of the Citizens' Convention have severely judged the Government's text. The majority are unable to speak to the univocal deputy on the subject of the published environment: the president's green set. After the push of the environmentalist requests to the last municipal ones, the Elysée has invented this Convention: 50 people qualified as representative and on a mission against global warming. But the creature soon escaped from the hands of its creator and soon recovered all the traditional paraphernalia of green radicalism, including the most absurd, such as the opposition to Christmas trees, the 'enough meat on our plates'. A bitter and avenging ecology, which has little faith in man and which, fortunately, Macron does not like. Le Parisien Cultura, a year without an audience. From the pages of the newspaper the professionals of the sector launch an appeal for a calendar of reopening. The Minister of Culture answers. Washington Post Trump rules out starting a third party and moves to strengthen control over the Republican Party In his first speech since leaving the presidency, in front of the conservative public, Trump hinted that he is fully in the running for another presidential campaign in 2024 Aaron Blake: It was a surprisingly typical speech for Trump, as it was his first major post-presidential speech. Perhaps the most significant thing Trump said for the country was something he avoided strongly advocating when he was actually in the White House: Get vaccinated. Trump, as he usually does, expressed it in an attack on his successor, President Biden. Trump argued that Biden had not actually won the election, and used the vaccine to paint Biden as weak and indebted to Trump for vaccines developed under his control. As president, Trump did little to encourage people - especially Republicans, who were more vaccine skeptical, to get vaccinated. Lurking in the background was not only the GOP's skepticism about the vaccine's necessity or efficacy, but also Trump's unfounded past linkage of other vaccines to autism, even during the 2016 campaign. Sources close to him indicated that Trump wanted to encourage vaccines as they were launched but also feared that actively pushing them would alienate some of the more extreme parts of his base. Polls say he was right. A recent Monmouth University poll showed that 72 percent of Democrats planned to get the vaccine as soon as possible or had already received it, compared to only 39 percent of Republicans - a bigger gap than last year. WSJ People close to him have said Trump may not come to a final decision on his candidacy in 2024 until after the 2022 mid-term elections, in which Trump intends to play a key role in selecting candidates and punishing those who voted for him. under accusation. "Get rid of all of them," he said in the speech. "The RINOs we are surrounded by will destroy the Republican Party," he said, referring to the term "Republicans in name only." He also criticized Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), Who he believes would have lost his re-election to the Senate in 2020 without Trump's support. But polls say McConnell has never been behind his competitor. The crowd booed a little McConnell, who voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment process but denounced Trump's own rhetoric before the uprising. Since then the two have verbally clashed Newsweek Power players in early February in New York state in a contested election case in the 22nd Congressional District, a judge ruled in favor of Republican Claudia Tenney, attributing the victory to her. over Democrat Anthony Brandisi by just 109 votes, thus establishing the last undecided competition of the 2020 election. This decision makes Tenney the 38th Republican woman to enter Congress this year, beating the previous record of 30 set in 2006 and more than doubling the number of female Republican Party representatives as early as 2018. The rise of Republican women was the only bright spot in the 2020 election for an otherwise battered party, which lost not only the presidency but also effective control of the Senate in the runoff in Georgia in January. But anyone who expects these Republican women to act as a moderating force within the party by virtue of the tradition that historically has seen them increasingly moderate than their male party colleagues and more open to negotiating with Democratic MPs will likely have a great deal of power. surprise. This ruling class of Republican women appears to be the most conservative in history, with a larger-than-usual number whose views are sharply right and apparently not in the mood for bipartisanship. The cover story then becomes that of Nikki Haley, a potential front runner in 2024 in the republican field upset by the Capitol Hill uprising. The former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations - the Indian-American daughter of immigrants - could offer voters "Trumpism without Trump" and be a formidable challenger for Kamala Harris.  

The sites and online topics of Monday 1 March 2021: the international press review of Rainews24

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by Paolo Cappelli

01 March 2021

WSJ

Iran rejects offer of direct nuclear talks with the US increasing tension with the West

Rejection is unlikely to kill diplomacy, but time is running out ahead of the Persian New Year and Iranian elections Iran has rejected a EU offer to hold direct nuclear talks with the United States in the coming days, risking renewed tension between Tehran and Western capitals.

Senior Western diplomats said Iran's response does not nullify the Biden administration's hopes to revive diplomatic efforts to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, concluded between Iran and six world powers and abandoned by the Trump administration in 2018. But they said it appeared to have stalled: Iran wants a guarantee that it won't walk away from a meeting with the US without some relief from sanctions, something Washington has so far ruled out.

With Tehran stepping up its nuclear activities in recent months in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal, the United States conducting airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Syria and the Iranian presidential election in June, diplomats warned that opportunities to ease tensions could now be jeopardized.

Rapid

Vaccine Rollout Will Spur Economic Recovery Faster Than First Feared Rapid Spread of Covid-19 Vaccines Will Foster Faster Economic Recovery, Requiring Fewer Tax Hikes Than Feared, Official Budget Forecasts Will Show this week, with the number of people receiving their first injection over 20 million.

Rishi Sunak is still worried about "enormous tensions" in public finances and paved the way for tax increases in the budget on Wednesday when he told the Financial Times on Friday that he wanted to "level" with the people on the need to contain loans.

But the outlook has improved significantly this year thanks to the vaccine program.

"The successful launch of the vaccine is a material change in recent months," said a person close to the budget process.

Some Treasury insiders have talked about a £ 40 billion tax hole by the end of the current parliament in 2024, but people familiar with the matter said this is now expected to be less.

In November, the OBR thought the tax gap was £ 29 billion.

Daily Express

Rishi: I will continue to spend to get Britain moving again

The Independent

Public Opinion Supports New Taxes on the Affluent and the Business World

ComRes Survey.

The majority of Brits are willing to accept an increase in income taxes to support the recovery of the economy.

The poll comes as the debate on the inevitable tax hike is ignited in the Conservative Party

Bild

The SPD will put an end to the Merkel lockdown

Relaxation of restrictions even with weekly incidence of infections above 50. And then: yes to summer holidays, yes to beer gardens and a slightly more normal Budensliga: vice chancellor Olaf Scholz sees a Germany on the way back to normal.

There must be a national strategy and not left to the initiatives of the individual Land

SPD wants clear criteria to ease restrictions

Rolf Mützenich, chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, asks before the Federal Chancellor's meeting with the Lander prime ministers on Wednesday: "I imagine good governance differently"

Welt

Spahn in the coronavirus crisis increasingly under pressure

Three quarters of Germans in favor of reopening in March, indicates an Insa poll.

75% are in favor of opening retail stores in March, while only 17% are against.

54% of respondents want to reopen restaurants and pubs, 64% are in favor of the complete reopening of schools and nurseries.

Meanwhile, according to the survey, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has become unpopular: 56% of respondents said they were "rather dissatisfied" with his job, only 28% are satisfied.

In view of the rapid tests, Deputy Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) calls for a change of strategy in the virus containment policy: "I insist that on Wednesday we formulate a concrete opening perspective", says the candidate chancellor of the SPD.

The day after tomorrow, the heads of government of the Lander will discuss again with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).

FAZ

The prime ministers of the Lander ask for a relaxation of the rigidity of the national vaccination scheme to avoid wasting doses.

Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has proposed that hundreds of thousands of unused doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine from federal state depots be released for vaccination for all.

"Before it goes unused: we vaccinate whoever wants it. No dose of Astra-Zeneca should be left aside or thrown away. Because all vaccinated people protect themselves and others," Söder said yesterday.

Germany must speed up vaccinations: "Every day counts."

It may not be that on the one hand there is too little vaccine, but on the other the Astra-Zeneca vaccine "is not accepted by many".

The Bavarian head of government is therefore fighting for a nationwide regulation to loosen the vaccination sequence for the Astrazeneca vaccine.

In addition, the vaccine should also be able to be inoculated by family doctors.

Tagesspiegel

The prime ministers of the Lander ask to be able to administer the Astra Zeneca vaccine to everyone.

Merkel's containment strategy is dead and buried: voices are increasing in open dissent with the policy of a prolonged national lockdown.

He is no longer just the Union leader Ralph Brinnkhaus: everyone is now saying that we need to focus on mass vaccination and do much better, as the UK teaches.

Germany, like the European Union, suffers from an excess of rules in the approval of vaccines and their distribution;

the same for the spread of rapid covid -19 tests.

A national lockdown until May with the impossible goal of 'zero covid' will not work, the Germans are stressed.

Le Soir

Belgium is the third most affected country in Europe by Covid.

Vaccination, a change of pace is needed.

The image of empty vaccination centers undermines citizens' morale and support.

The strategy must change.

The alternatives to accelerate are on the table: among these, the authorization of the Astra Zeneca vaccine for over 55s.

Presidential

Liberations

, macronism in full denial

Over the weekend, the front page of Liberation on the many left-wing voters who refuse to vote again Macron to block Marine Le Pen's path sparked violent reactions in the Republique en Marche.

Behind which, argues Libé, concern is growing.

The question questions the left.

Interview with the Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, who accuses the head of state of having taken part in the game of the far right by staging a "duel".

He hopes the left will raise its head a year before the presidential elections.

"Libé says Faure - he just echoed what I have been hearing for months. Disillusioned voters, it is not the first time. But this time the anger is more powerful, because the power has not manifested itself for what it is. This tale of" both right and left "amplified the feeling of betrayal. Claiming to embody the circle of reason alone, disqualifying parliamentary debate, bypassing intermediate bodies, despising locally elected politicians, the president organized the debate as the extreme right. He chose it as his counterpart. "

A recent Odoxa poll for France Info says that 66% of French people do not have a good opinion of the Socialist Party, do not feel it close to the people, and 74% think it may even disappear.

63% of Socialist sympathizers also think so

Le Figaro

Climate law: Macron facing the trap of radical ecology

Gathered for the last time this weekend, the members of the Citizens' Convention have severely judged the Government's text.

The majority are unable to speak to the univocal vice on the subject of the

published

environment

: the president's green set.

After the push of the environmentalist requests to the last municipal ones, the Elysée has invented this Convention: 50 people qualified as representative and on a mission against global warming.

But the creature soon escaped from the hands of its creator and soon recovered all the traditional paraphernalia of green radicalism, including the most absurd, such as the opposition to Christmas trees, the 'enough meat on our plates'.

A bitter and avenging ecology, which has little faith in man and which, fortunately, Macron does not like.

Le Parisien

Cultura, a year without an audience.

From the pages of the newspaper the professionals of the sector launch an appeal for a calendar of reopening.

The Minister of Culture answers.

Washington Post

Trump rules out starting a third party and moves to strengthen control over the Republican Party

In his first speech since leaving the presidency, in front of the conservative public, Trump hinted that he is fully in the running for another presidential campaign in 2024

Aaron Blake: It was a surprisingly typical speech for Trump, as it was his first major post-presidential speech.

Perhaps the most significant thing Trump said for the country was something he avoided strongly advocating when he was actually in the White House: Get vaccinated.

Trump, as he usually does, expressed it in an attack on his successor, President Biden.

Trump argued that Biden had not actually won the election, and used the vaccine to paint Biden as weak and indebted to Trump for vaccines developed under his control.

As president, Trump did little to encourage people - especially Republicans, who were more vaccine skeptical, to get vaccinated.

Lurking in the background was not only the GOP's skepticism about the vaccine's necessity or efficacy, but also Trump's unfounded past linkage of other vaccines to autism, even during the 2016 campaign. Sources close to him indicated that Trump wanted to encourage vaccines as they were being launched but also feared that actively pushing them would alienate some of the more extreme parts of his base.

Polls say he was right.

A recent Monmouth University poll showed that 72 percent of Democrats planned to get the vaccine as soon as possible or had already received it, compared to only 39 percent of Republicans - a bigger gap than last year.

WSJ

People close to him have said Trump may not come to a final decision on his candidacy in 2024 until after the 2022 mid-term elections, in which Trump intends to play a key role in selecting candidates and punishing those who voted for him. under accusation.

"Get rid of all of them," he said in the speech.

"The RINOs we are surrounded by will destroy the Republican Party," he said, referring to the term "Republicans in name only."

He also criticized Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), Who he believes would have lost his re-election to the Senate in 2020 without Trump's support.

But polls say McConnell has never been behind his competitor.

The crowd booed a little McConnell, who voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment process but denounced Trump's own rhetoric before the uprising.

Since then the two have clashed over words

Newsweek

Power players in

early February in New York state in a contested election case in the 22nd Congressional District, a judge ruled in favor of Republican Claudia Tenney, awarding her victory over Democrat Anthony Brandisi by just 109 votes, thus establishing the last undecided competition of the 2020 election. This decision makes Tenney the 38th Republican woman to enter Congress this year, beating the previous record of 30 set in 2006 and more than doubling the number of female Republican Party representatives just in 2018. The rise of Republican women was the only bright spot in the 2020 election for an otherwise battered party, which lost not only the presidency but also effective control of the Senate in the Georgia ballot in January.

But anyone who expects these Republican women to act as a moderating force within the party by virtue of the tradition that historically has seen them increasingly moderate than their male party colleagues and more open to negotiating with Democratic MPs will likely have a great deal of power. surprise.

This ruling class of Republican women appears to be the most conservative in history, with a larger-than-usual number whose views are sharply right and apparently not in the mood for bipartisanship.

The cover story then becomes that of Nikki Haley, a potential front runner in 2024 in the republican field upset by the Capitol Hill uprising.

The former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations - the Indian-American daughter of immigrants - could offer voters "Trumpism without Trump" and be a formidable challenger for Kamala Harris.

Source: rainews

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