The most important thing for you this Monday: In view of falling incidences, Germany is vacillating between love for life and caution.

The Middle East conflict is also leading to violence in this country.

And the US government’s climate protection officer, John Kerry, is visiting Germany.

Tatjana Heid

Editor on duty at FAZ.NET.

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    1. Between zest for life and caution


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    Anti-Semitic riots in Germany


    3. Shorter terms of office for Federal Chancellors?


    4. American climate protection officer in Germany


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    1. Between joie de vivre and caution

    The incidences are falling, the zest for life is growing.

    While Schleswig-Holstein is opening up to tourists from all over Germany, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn urges caution.

    Tourism:

    Schleswig-Holstein is loosening the Corona rules this Monday, especially in tourism and gastronomy. Restaurants are also allowed to open their interior areas under strict conditions. Vaccinated, convalescent and negative tested people from all over Germany can go on vacation in Schleswig-Holstein. The seven-day incidence is well below 50. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accommodation areas will open again to guests from their own federal state from June 7, and a week later to holidaymakers from all over Germany.

    Caution:

    Federal Health Minister Spahn (CDU) warns of a "race to relax". The infection numbers are still too high, he wrote in a seven-page instruction manual for his counterparts in the federal states. In it, he recommends, among other things, for those areas in which the infection rate is stable below 100, private meetings to continue to be limited to two households. The outdoor catering should be opened for those who have recovered, vaccinated and those tested negatively, but the indoor catering should remain closed. If the frequency of infection persistently falls below 50, the operation of restaurants and hotels as well as attending events indoors could become possible.

    Europe:

    In England and large parts of Great Britain, easing will come into effect this Monday, including for theaters, cinemas and museums.

    In Austria, hotels and restaurants open on Wednesday after being closed for more than half a year.

    The rooms in many hotels and spas were fully booked within hours.

    2. Anti-Semitic riots in Germany

    While rockets are flying between Israel and the Gaza Strip, there are anti-Semitic riots in this country.

    Anti-Semitism:

    In Germany, protests against the Middle East conflict have ended in hatred and violence. Anti-Semitic slogans were shouted at pro-Palestinian demonstrations and violent clashes broke out. In Mannheim a man lit an Israeli flag and was arrested. "Solidarity with Palestinians or criticism of the Israeli government are no justification for violence," said the Federal Government's anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, of the FAZ. It is now a matter of adapting the protection of Jewish institutions and bringing criminals to justice quickly. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) also announced a tough approach.