Prime Minister’s Conference. Corona on the agenda. Digital because of the pandemic.
What sounds well-known is completely new: For the first time, Olaf Scholz (63, SPD) is represented as the new Federal Chancellor in the group of heads of the state governments.
At 6 p.m. there will be a press conference on the resolutions.
Corona will play a central role in the consultations. The North Rhine-Westphalian head of government Hendrik Wüst (CDU), who chairs the MPK, warned on Thursday morning at BILD Live about the current fourth wave and its consequences: “We see: the numbers of infections are too high. We are at the limit when it comes to hospitals. We have to be incredibly careful. “
In the current situation it is “wise if nobody tries to make the class clown”. Rather, “everyone would benefit from staying together nicely”. That means: no going it alone.
Lower Saxony’s head of government Stephan Weil (SPD) had announced that he wanted to talk to the group about contact restrictions also for vaccinated people in the period after Christmas. Wüst said to the radio station WDR 2: “I actually want to avoid that, but if it becomes necessary, we are ready for anything that protects people.”
The federal-state round on Thursday is not a special corona meeting, but the regular meeting.
That is why it will not just be about fighting the corona pandemic. According to information from country circles, it should be about illegal refugee entries via Belarus as well as digitization, administration and financial distribution issues.
It was said that weighty decisions were not to be expected.
After their internal deliberations, the MPK participants exchanged ideas for the first time in the afternoon with Olaf Scholz (SPD) in his new role as Federal Chancellor.
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