1. What the failed no-confidence vote against Johnson means


2. The Chancellor on NATO's eastern flank


3. New relief and a new tax?


4. What does Merkel say about the chancellor and the war?


5. Who exactly is behind the murder of Peter de Vries?


6. DFB-Elf in the classic against England


7. That will be important this week

Sebastian Reuter

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1. What the failed no-confidence vote against Johnson means

The British Prime Minister remains in office.

Boris Johnson wins the confidence vote of his conservative parliamentary group in the evening.

But he's struck.

211 to 148

: 211 of the 359 Conservative Tory MPs voted on Monday evening for Johnson to remain as party leader and thus also as prime minister.

148 parliamentarians voiced their distrust.

Among the Prime Minister's more prominent critics were former Prime Minister May, Scottish Conservative leader Ross and former Brexit Secretary Davis.

Johnson himself had campaigned for support shortly before the vote and announced that he wanted to lead the party into the next general election.

"The best is yet to come," Johnson was quoted as saying.

Tolerated parties

: Johnson has recently been under domestic political pressure – among other things, since it came to light that parties were being celebrated at his official residence while Great Britain was stuck in the corona lockdown.

Party colleagues publicly demanded that Johnson – who tolerated the celebrations and took part in some – should resign.

It was then announced on Monday morning that the number of at least 54 letters required for a no-confidence vote had been received from Tory MPs and that the 15 percent threshold had been reached.

Consequences

: Had Johnson lost, he should have resigned immediately.

After his victory, no further vote of no confidence can be initiated against him for the next twelve months.

In view of the numerous voices that did not express their confidence in him, his position as head of government is not automatically secured.

His predecessor Theresa May survived a vote of no confidence against her in 2018 by 200 votes to 117.

However, the pressure on her continued because of Brexit.

May resigned not even half a year later.

Foreign Minister Liz Truss and Finance Minister Rishi Sunak are still being discussed as possible successors to Johnson.

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2. The Chancellor on NATO's eastern flank

Olaf Scholz speaks to the heads of government of the Baltic States in Lithuania.

The Ukrainian president is first confident, then worried.

And Putin threatens again.

Scholz' visit

: For the first time since the beginning of the war, Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Lithuania on Tuesday, a NATO country that borders Russia and feels particularly threatened by the nuclear power.

In Vilnius, the SPD politician will also meet the heads of government of Latvia and Estonia.

At the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of the month, the question will be whether the troops on the alliance's eastern flank should be increased again.

1000 German soldiers are currently stationed in Lithuania.