As Sigmar Gabriel became SPD chairman in autumn 2009, he gave a brilliant inaugural speech at the Dresden party conference. A key requirement in it: “We have to get out into life; where it is loud; where it sizzles; where it sometimes smells, sometimes smells. “ I was in the hall at the time and saw how the delegates celebrated Gabriel for this sentence – even if it remained unclear where exactly the comrades should go now.
Sigmar Gabriel leaves ten years later to the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank, In a way, that’s consistent. After years of mismanagement, the bank has become part of the precariat among financial institutions. And some business practice actually stinks to heaven.
There was a lot to do for the Social Democrat, For example, he could face the dubious Russian business dedicate to Deutsche Bank, especially the willingness to launder Russian funds. In 2017, she was fined $ 630 million for being involved in Russian money laundering. In addition, it is still unclear why she was the only bank willing to do business with the organization of Donald Trump, a businessman who is in every respect affinity to Russia.
When the Supervisory Board deals with these issues in the future, Gabriel should definitely be loud.
Homeless AfD
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This Saturday, actually State party conference of the Berlin AfD should take place. But he was canceled at the last minute. The party said the owner of the Pankow ballroom, the planned location of the event, was threatened with a knife by unknown persons. However, the owner had apparently canceled the contract before the attack. Previously, more than a hundred hoteliers and hall owners had given the Berlin AfD a basket.
It is a good right of every hall owner not to let the AfD in his booth. It is something else if potential Landlords systematically threatened by opponents of the party become. In the past, there had been a call in Berlin to “rage against renting to the AfD”, including the threat that the party conference should be “mashed”.
If I were a hall owner, I would not right-wing populists to rent. But I think the intimidation of those who are willing to do it is a completely wrong way. It only helps her to present herself as a martyr.
As long as this party has not been banned by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and is legally elected in state parliaments and in the Bundestag, it should also be able to hold party conferences. It doesn’t have to be a nice hall.
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In the “Conseil des Ministres”, the French Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe yesterday the 1500 pages long Draft pension reform in front. Outside, at the Place de la République, the opponents of the reform continue to demonstrate unimpressed. They demand that they be taken back. Only then do they want to end the strike, which has now been going on for seven weeks. This is not a negotiating position, but is equivalent to blackmail.
Fewer Frenchmen demonstrated yesterday than in December. But now lawyers, teachers and doctors were also taking to the streets, not just radicalized supporters of the left-wing CGT union. How the government wants to unite the country divided into opponents and supporters of the reform cannot be predicted. The sound is getting more and more aggressive.
“It is no longer just a matter of protesting against pension reform,” says my colleague Britta-Sandberg, SPIEGEL correspondent in Berlin. “After seven weeks of strikes, the anger and hatred of the government is now being shown openly.”
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Loser of the day …
… is Mohammed bin Salman, If the creators of a bad splatter series came up with such a nefarious character as the Saudi Crown Prince, they would be declared crazy. A year ago his henchmen dismembered him with a bone saw Regime critic Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. No one who is familiar with the kingdom’s governance structure doubts that bin Salman’s mandate came personally.
Now he should Cell phone data spied on by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have his own WhatsApp account. A UN report confirms that after a WhatsApp contact between the prince and Bezos malware began to suck data from Bezos’ iPhone: text messages, photos, notes. With this data, among other things, they documented an affair with Bezos, the billionaire entrepreneur was later blackmailed.
The motif is obvious. The disturbing dissident Kashoggi was a columnist for the Washington Post and Bezos the owner of the newspaper. In addition, the “Post” published numerous investigative reports after the gruesome murder.
My colleagues shed light on the new SPIEGEL the Crown Prince’s sinister machinations, Your text describes a man that even creative screenwriters would not have designed in this way.
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Yours Markus Feldenkirchen
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