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German coalition still split on how to deal with COVIDHealth Minister Karl Lauterbach and the liberals still disagree and not even science can help them.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersGerman Health Minister Karl Lauterbach | John Macdougall/AFP via Getty ImagesJuly 7, 20229:25 p stanley cup m CETBy Laurenz GehrkeBERLIN 鈥擥ermans have two fears for the return of cold weather this fall: a lack of gas to heat homes and a fresh surge in coronavirus infections. We must not and cannot vaso stanley afford to go into the fall unprepared or underprepared for a third time, so we will do whatever it takes to address the situation, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told the Bundestag, Germany s parliament, on Thursday. He spoke during a debate on infection-protection law stanley flasche amendments aimed at balancing pandemic precautions with concerns over personal freedom that have divided German politicians, including within the coalition government. AdvertisementAdvertisementLauterbach is convinced any complacency over COVID-19 is misplaced. We are currently in a summer wave that was predicted, the fall will be difficult and the reasons are already known, he warned. We will be wrestling with a BA.5 variant that is now dominating the infection scene. The minister s remarks came days after the publication of a report evaluating the efficacy of coronavirus measures that has reignited a fight within the government between the liberal Free D Ttfo Geek takes on Romanian establishment
Michel calls for regional trade blocsDevelopment commissioner backs French suggestion that countries in the developing world form regional agricultural trading blocs. Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare stanley travel mug on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedI botella stanley nJuly 3, 200810:04 am CETBy Zoe CaseyLouis Michel, the European commissioner for development, has thrown his backing behind a French suggestion that African and Latin American countries should form regional agricultural blocs.Under the suggestion mooted by French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier in April 2008, developing-world regions would draw up blueprints for co-operation similar to those set out in the EUs own Common Agricultural Policy CAP , with the aim of boosting agricultural production at a time of when food sup stanley cup plies are very tight and food prices are soaring. We need a regional approach not a national one to help solve the food crisis in developing countries, Michel said on 3 July at a conference on ways to solve the global food crisis. Regional blocs could co-operate in the management of water stocks and farm produce and in dealing with natural disasters and famine. Such co-operation could eventually lead to greater political stability in developing countries, Michel suggested.AdvertisementAdvertisementMichel claimed such a plan would not be protectionist. Barniers idea has been interpreted as protectionist in some quarters.The EU itself is coming under pressure to slash its own agricultural subsidies and bring down its ext