Editorial
Joe Biden wants to use rigid means to protect the US economy. What this “America First” economic policy means for Germany is answered by a research team in the current issue star. Also: The death of the emeritus pope and new research on Attila Hildmann.
Whenever I’m allowed to go to Rome, I’m drawn to her: a statue so flowing, so light, so soft that nothing reminds of marble, but everything of humanity. Michelangelo’s Pietà, ordered as the most beautiful statue in Rome and delivered as the most beautiful statue of all time, makes you happy because it exhibits what man can create – and yet it is deeply morbid, after all we see a corpse: that of Jesus Christ on the Kneeling his mother Maria.
I had to think of the Pietà when I saw the pictures of the German Pope Benedict XVI lying in state. saw in Rome. The staging of death is part of the myth of the papacy, John Paul II had tortured himself to death in office, he wanted to show the world: This office is not of this world. By resigning, Benedict has chosen the other path. He became human (again) by admitting that his strength was no longer sufficient. Now the question arises of how to bury a retired pope, how to stage this very special myth. The Catholic Church, experienced in staging, will find a way. But the humanization of the office has also led to much more human standards being applied and a question is already circulating: In what (exceptional) state did the exceptional theologian Joseph Ratzinger leave his church?
New rules for globalization
Joe Biden is not Donald Trump. That is Joe Biden’s greatest trump card, especially in Germany. In addition, the 80-year-old Democrat not only walks slowly like the grandfather of seven that he is, but smiles just as friendly. Of course, this smile cannot hide the fact that there is a lot of “America first” in Biden’s economic policy. The rules of globalization are being rewritten under the impression of the pandemic, the energy crisis and China’s disillusionment – and the makers in Washington want to ensure that the rules work primarily for their own country. A research team has compiled for you what this means for Europe and especially for the export nation Germany, traveling in a changing world.
Allow me one last flashback to 2022, when our reporter Tina Kaiser revealed the whereabouts of Attila Hildmann – the celebrity chef-turned-hate preacher and right-wing extremist who fled to Turkey, where Kaiser tracked him down in the small town of Kartepe. But the story continues in the new year. In other words, it just doesn’t go any further. As Kaiser researched, the federal government has still not asked Turkey to extradite Hildmann. Turkey should actually arrest him according to the European extradition treaty and transfer him to Germany, after all, there is a corresponding arrest warrant from Interpol. But why isn’t our government putting more pressure on Ankara, and why isn’t Turkey doing its duty to arrest Hildmann? Is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan perhaps using it as a means of exerting pressure in order to have Turkish opposition figures extradited from Germany in return? The Hildmann saga continues. We’ll stay tuned, also in 2023, I promise.
Source: Stern
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