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by Paolo Cappelli

19 April 2021 From one chancellor to another.

Annalena Baerbock, is ready to take the baton from Angela Merkel and her candidacy is the most important news, today, in Europe, projecting us towards the September elections in Germany.

He will challenge for the chancellery the candidate of the SPD, Olaf Sholz, and Armin Laschet, who seems to have finally convinced the CDU.

The Baerbock candidacy weighs not so much on the gender issue, but on the chances of this woman, who brought the Greens to Germany around 20% of the votes, to shift the political axis to Germany after 16 years of Merkel era 



Die Presse 


Una Verde wants the stationery. 


Annalena Baerbock enters the battle for the chancellery. 


The rise of an underrated woman. Annalena Baerbock spent her youth on the platform in the gym. Nothing required more courage from the young competitive athlete than learning a new jump, as she herself once recounted in an interview. Now Baerbock tries: in the decisive meeting of the Greens he called for cohesion and said he wanted to make a proposal for all Germans. He wants to create climate-friendly prosperity. It takes "courage now to really do things differently," he said. Anything wrong has already been heard enough in recent years. This 40-year-old has never been Chancellor or Minister, but she represents a new beginning. The most criticized point was that Baerbock never held an administrative position. "Shaping the future" is yours and "ours"proposal, concluded Baerbock



Tagessepiegel


The candidate chancellor


Now she is alone on stage. Out of the shadow of Robert Habeck, leader of the German Greens and with more government experience than her, Annalena Baerbock has all the lights on her. Young, without a past as a local administrator, as an undersecretary, as a minister, she is the candidate of the Greens in elections that for the first time see the chancellery within reach of environmentalists. Another woman after Angela Merkel, they say. A new generation taking power to baby boomers. No, Annalena Baerbock is more, it is the ratification of the political revolution of the last decades. The Greens' journey from political pariah to center party with a chancellor candidate lasted 40 years. As late as the 1990s, CDU youths like Armin Laschet had to meet in secret with green colleagues in the basements,in the back of the pizzerias because the conservative party establishment considered the environmentalists untouchables. Since that time, the awareness that sustainability is important has slowly but steadily established itself in German society. What the Greens are envisioning now is a more rapid and radical change: the conversion of the economy into a "circular economy" with a greater focus on the common good to limit global warming, with massive public investments in technologies and digitization and fiscal redistribution, for example in favor of the workers most affected by the pandemic: working women, single parents.the awareness that sustainability is important has slowly but steadily established itself in German society. What the Greens are envisioning now is a more rapid and radical change: the conversion of the economy into a "circular economy" with a greater focus on the common good to limit global warming, with massive public investments in technologies and digitization and fiscal redistribution, for example in favor of the workers most affected by the pandemic: working women, single parents.the awareness that sustainability is important has slowly but steadily established itself in German society. What the Greens are envisioning now is a more rapid and radical change: the conversion of the economy into a "circular economy" with a greater focus on the common good to limit global warming, with massive public investments in technologies and digitization and fiscal redistribution, for example in favor of the workers most affected by the pandemic: working women, single parents.with massive public investments in technologies and digitization and fiscal redistribution, for example in favor of the workers most affected by the pandemic: working women, single parents.with massive public investments in technologies and digitization and fiscal redistribution, for example in favor of the workers most affected by the pandemic: working women, single parents.



Welt


On the Move, Annalena Baerbock is the Green candidate for the Federal Chancellery


The Government wants to get the Germans out again a little in the evening


published: the perfect facade, by Ulf Poschardt


The Greens are running: with Annalena Baerbock they nominate a strong chancellor candidate, solid, their campaign looks modern and elegant. But behind the staging are hidden fantasies of radical intolerance and redistribution of income. Political competition must now reveal them.



Handelsblatt


Greens go ahead


The Greens have nominated Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor - and in so doing they have overcome the torn CDU / CSU. The reaction of the business community is divided. The president of the Family Business Association, Reinhold von Eben-Worlée, commented on the electoral program: "Behind the moderate candidate we are far from a moderate program". On the other hand, future RWE CEO Markus Krebber praised the Green candidate as "competent and solution-oriented". Start-up representatives also spoke positively about Baerbock.



Hamburger Mopost


Green triumph


Habeck remains the most politically solid leader in the Greens, who have chosen instead to run Annalena Baerbock, in what is arguably the most compelling election campaign in recent history - after all, three parties have a chance to win over the Chancellery - a tangible mood for change in the country without frightening the center of the electorate with too many radical demands.

Unlike the next candidate for the Chancellor of the Union, one can rest assured that the internal party competitor, the loser, will not shoot across the board.

Habeck knows that the Chancellery and the Greens can only conquer it with unconditional internal unity.



FAZ


The Green Wizard, by Jasper von Altenbockum.


The candidacy for the Green Chancellery is a beginning that contains a magic. After all, the Greens could not do otherwise, it would have been a contradiction if they had chosen a male candidate with credentials basically similar to those of Baerbock for the succession to a female chancellor. Baerbock, writes Julia Lohr, is based on the desire for change in Germany after nearly eight years of GroKo CDU / CDU SPD. This also explains the immediate praise from the business world for Baerbock. But that doesn't say whether the country would be better off with you as chancellor. Only in passing in his speech did he mention those who played a key role in ensuring that Germany is such a prosperous country today: the middle class and industry. Till now,the Greens have just hinted at how they want to finance their billion dollar investment plans: with a balance sheet and a loosening of the debt brake, that's what we know. But this is not a viable economic and financial policy concept. The fact that, in addition to the car, the bicycle was also invented in Germany, as Baerbock said in his speech, is not enough as a basis for growth in the coming years.it is not enough as a basis for growth over the next few years.it is not enough as a basis for growth over the next few years.



Kleine Zeitung


The woman to increase the consensus


The Greens field a female candidate for chancellor for the first time in the Bundestag elections in September. The CDU / CSU, for the first time in two decades, a man. While the Greens are sticking to their schedule, the debate between the CDU and the CSU is ending in chaos. From good asylum, to the modern and digital state, to healthcare, Baerbock ranged in its inaugural speech and then landed on the primordial green climate issue. "Now is the time for politics to rise above itself," Baerbock said, then snapped at outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel. "Driving on sight will get us nowhere." Mother of two, Baerbock showed up. In Germany, the Erasmus generation is rising to the top of politics.The millennials did not experience the cold war, a united Germany is a matter of course for them, and thus emancipation. And they see Europe as a common space. Baerbock grew up in Hanover and Nuremberg, studied politics and international law in Berlin and at the London School of Economics, then worked at the European Parliament in Brussels. The new generation that is conquering the German political scene does not focus on the national navel; for them, Europe is home and this bodes well for European and foreign policy.then he worked at the European Parliament in Brussels. The new generation that is conquering the German political scene does not focus on the national navel; for them, Europe is home and this bodes well for European and foreign policy.then he worked at the European Parliament in Brussels. The new generation that is conquering the German political scene does not focus on the national navel; for them, Europe is home and this bodes well for European and foreign policy.



FAZ


The CDU appoints Laschet to take over the chancellery


after an

interminable

internal confrontation with CSU leader Markus Soder.


After a controversial six-hour debate, 77.5 percent of participants in a joint meeting of the party presidium and executive committee voted in favor of Laschet early Tuesday morning. For CSU president Markus Söder, 22.5% voted. 46 board members had the right to vote, 31 voted for Laschet, nine for Söder and six abstained. Laschet had surprisingly called the meeting on Monday after the two trade union parties, but also the CDU itself, had argued bitterly over the candidacy for chancellor for a week and found no solution.



Die Zeit


The Autumn Birth of a Candidate, by Ferdinand Otto


There is no one better than the courteous and conciliatory compromise man: Armin Laschet, mixed in these mills of the confrontation within the CDU. But this doesn't seem to interest anyone outside the CDU. Söder continues to dominate the polls. The party leadership was unable, to save face, to express distrust of the president elected twelve weeks ago. Otherwise he had to admit: we made the wrong decision in January. The rift between what many people seem to want from the CDU and what the CDU wants for itself was obvious even then. Laschet has always been behind Friedrich Merz, and in the polls even behind the surprise candidate Norbert Röttgen. The CDU delegates knew this and still voted for Laschet. Who then asked to decide on question K without any momentum.And so now the CDU is limping towards the September elections. A two-thirds majority on the board of directors is not an overconfidence but rather a minimum standard for political survival. Thanks to Söder's preparatory work - and the lack of confidentiality at all levels - it is now clear who in the CDU is not for Laschet. The evening produced many losers. And let's not think about Soder



Welt


It remains to be seen how much this Laschet victory is worth, if there will be a declaration of acceptance by Soder, how the parliamentary group of the CDU will behave, if the polls will change.







Bild


The decision in the Bundestag tomorrow.

Evening curfew until June 30th.









Le Soir


Women suffer most from the health crisis.

According to a study, the pandemic increases gender inequalities.

Women, especially if we look at the world of work, are more vulnerable.

As we saw in 2008, the economic recovery policies at the time took very little account of this aspect.






Wall Street Journal


The trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in the final stages 


The poorest countries lag behind, the momentum of vaccination campaigns is insufficient



An initiative backed by the World Health Organization and rich countries to provide free vaccines to 92 low- and middle-income countries recently reduced the number of vaccines it plans to ship by the end of May. That initiative, called Covax, will provide 145 million doses instead of about 240 million because India, its main supplier, has largely stopped exporting vaccines as it battles a spate of cases at its home. This is widening an already huge vaccination gap between rich and poor countries. While more than 200 million doses have been administered in the United States, Covax has so far provided less than 41 million of its two billion planned doses by the end of 2021.The slow spread of Covid-19 vaccines in developing countries could create problems for the rest of the world. Epidemiologists believe that failure to vaccinate much of the developing world could leave a large reservoir of coronavirus in circulation, giving it the ability to mutate and potentially spread to developed countries.



Financial Times


Super League Clubs Will Get $ 200-300 Million Entry Bonus


JPG Morgan Will Give Financial Support to Initiative, Hard Reaction from UEFA, FIFA and Many Rulers in Europe







The


government's warning to the premier's big six, protests from fans, threat of UEFA expulsion








Daily Telegraph


The Duke: I share the fans' fears for football.

Prince William condemns the Super League initiative, the Minister of Culture threatens measures against the founding clubs.  







La Croix


Football and money, more and more.









From the editorial staff




Lo staff di Navalny ha deciso di azzerare l’appello alla nazione di Putin
Dopo le protese fissate per il 21 aprile, le autorità avranno un pretesto per dichiarare il "voto intelligente" estremismo


Supporters of Alexei Navalny have decided not to wait for the collection of 500,000 signatures for the protests to be completed. The action was set in extremis for 21 April. On that day, the President of the Russian Federation delivers his speech to Parliament, which Navalny's supporters intend to reset on an informational level. As a result, pre-emptive detentions will continue in the coming days, and all facilities in Navalny will be considered "extremist" and banned. This will effectively destroy "Smart Voting", and the voters and candidates who participate in it will be criminally liable.


The decision not to wait for 500,000 registrations to be collected on the ad hoc website was announced by Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), a declared foreign agent, and Leonid Volkov, coordinator of the Navalny branch network, which will soon be recognized as extremist organizations.


By the evening of April 18, there were more than 460,000 registrations on the special site, but Navalny's follower leaders said they couldn't wait any longer - their leader is rapidly losing health, which means it is a threat to his life.


It is not difficult to guess what will happen in the next three days around the Navalny facilities. Most likely, the detentions of coordinators and activists will begin early in the morning or even at night. A significant detail is on the basis of which crimes will be charged and judged. On April 16, the Moscow Prosecutor's Office asked the court to declare both the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and the headquarters of supporters of Navalny extremist organizations. This should be followed by a court verdict to ban the activities of these organizations on the territory of the Russian Federation. It is suspected that this will be done in the next few days, after which any agitator could be charged with collaborating with extremists.






Ultima Hora

(Ecuador) 



Galapagos first archipelago in Latin America fully vaccinated against Covid-19. 



The Galapagos would be the first archipelago in Latin America to obtain herd immunity from Covid-19; 100% of the population over the age of 18 will be vaccinated at the end of May as part of Ecuador's vaccination plan. The announcement was made this weekend by the Vice President of the Republic, María Alejandra Muñoz, within the cabinet led by President Lenín Moreno in the city of Guayaquil.



"The Pfizer laboratory confirmed to us after weeks of international negotiations - declared the vice president - the supply of a batch of 40,000 doses that would arrive in the last week of April, with the aim of immunizing 100% of the population of the archipelago. over the age of 18, also as part of Pfizer's interest in promoting research programs.



"" The archipelago will be fully immunized before the change of government, "underlined the country's second president, referring to the fact that the next 24 According to the Constitution, the investiture of the new elected president, Guillermo Lasso, is foreseen in May.



The Galapagos archipelago is located about a thousand kilometers from the Ecuadorian continental coasts, is the main tourist destination of Ecuador and was declared a Natural World Heritage Site in 1978 by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco).



According to data from the Ministry of Health, which bases its statistics on just over 1.2 million PCR tests on a population of over 17 million inhabitants, 17,528 deaths were recorded in Ecuador, including confirmed cases and probable. However, outgoing President Moreno has reassured on several occasions that about two million Ecuadorians will be immunized before leaving the government.