Here you will find the most important news of the day, the most popular stories of SPIEGEL + and tips for your end of workday.
THE THEME OF THE DAY
Brexit: Plan B
"Theresa May just keeps going as if nothing had happened, no matter how much she tries to keep things under control: Theresa May is up to her neck."
This is how my colleague Florian Diekmann described the situation of the British Prime Minister - but already in July 2017, after May had lost her absolute majority in the new elections. The quote as well as the cover picture of today's newsletter appeared at that time in the digital evening paper SPIEGEL DAILY, the forerunner of this newsletter.
This Monday, a year and a half later, the title image and quote could not fit better.
Theresa May today introduced her Plan B for Brexit. MEPs voted against May's negotiated deal last week - leaving her only three days to submit a new proposal.
What is the new proposal? Over the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland May wants to consult with the deputies. And continue to negotiate. She rejects a second referendum, saying: "We do not want to break our United Kingdom." But she did not present something really new in the speech. The details.
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What is the man doing Brexit with a referendum - ex-prime minister David Cameron? Repent to own information nothing. And write his memoirs.
"The Brexit fantasy collided with the Brexit reality, and the result does not look pretty," says British author Jonathan Coe.
This is how the situation works - my colleague Stefan Kuzmany has yet come up with a solution: a second referendum. Not about the exit, no, about the immediate re-entry. The UK could, he writes, "leave the EU on 29 March 2019. However, if the so-called 'Breturn' is accepted, it would re-join at the same time." To the column.
Breturn, Brexit, Deal or No Deal: We inform you the evening on SPIEGEL ONLINE.
THE NUMBER OF THE DAY
100
So much - 100 grams of chips - stuck in a pack of crisps. Much less than in the past: The manufacturer has reduced the filling quantity from 170 to 100 grams - which made the chips up to 70 percent more expensive. A Mogelpackung, no, even the "Mogelpackung of the year", was the consumer center Hamburg. Who was still nominated for the negative prize, read here.
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NEWS
What you need to know today
- Kamala Harris wants to run as US President. The Democratic Senator from California is known as a critic of Trump's immigration policy.
- In the case of Skripal, the EU imposed sanctions against the leadership of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. Just over a year ago, Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in the UK. The details .
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects "slowed global growth". The forecast was presented at the beginning of the World Economic Forum in Davos. In 2019, global economic output will only increase by 3.5 percent.
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OPINION
Most talked about comments, interviews, essays
Zombies in the snow: once a sworn and despised elite, the participants of Davos have long been divided into different camps. That's a problem. The column by Henrik Müller.
What Harald Schmidt always has in his hand luggage: In Canada, passengers sat in an airplane for 16 hours - at minus 30 degrees. Schmidt's tips so that nothing happens to you even in such emergency situations. Here is the video.
MIRROR ONLINE
STORIES
The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
The garbage lie: The world smothered by the garbage. And the Germans, supposedly recycling world champions, are to blame. Read the current SPIEGEL cover story here.
The Excesses of the Generation Protz: The US photographer Lauren Greenfield accompanies the vulgar life of super-rich. Her pictures are fascinating and repulsive at the same time.
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MY EVENING
The recommendations for your closing time
What you could see: the game Germany vs Croatia at the Handball World Cup (20.30 clock, live ticker SPIEGEL ONLINE, TV: ZDF). A victory - and Germany is in the semifinals, which takes place on Friday in Hamburg. What you need to know about the game.
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Cheering German handball players (against Iceland)
What you could read: the graphic novel "City of the Three Saints". It's about "change, small stuff, small shit" in a small Italian town, writes the author Timur Vermes. And a giraffe - read for yourself.
I wish you a nice finishing time.
warmly
Maria Stöhr from the Daily Team
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