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At the tomb of the Pope is required – the situation in the morning
The Pope’s funeral will be a solemn major event – and a diplomatic. All eyes lie on the back rooms in Rome. What else is important.
Good morning, dear readers,
Funerals are a strange thing. As a guest, you want to say goodbye to a person in peace. At the same time is one Funeral service A social event in which other people inevitably take part. That can be nice, grief can combine. But it can also be exhausting. “Uncle Franz is also coming? Oh. Je. Aunt Hildegard not? But that’s … too bad.” You already know.
Now imagine this spectacle at the state level.
Tomorrow Pope Francis will be buried. Visitors are expected 170 foreign delegations. For comparison: with the burial of Pope John Paul II in April 2005, representatives from 138 countries came to Rome. The Afterwards the funeral service called the “diplomatic event of the year”. Back then : The then Israeli President Moshe Katsav with the then Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
This time, above all, the meeting of US President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian Prime Minister Wolodymyr Selenskyj is eagerly awaited. The former wants a peace at all costs, second defends itself against a dictation peace with hands and feet. Minister of Culture Olga Ljubimowa takes part from Russia, and an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court is available against state leader Vladimir Putin.
Selenskyj and Trump come to the burial of the Pope
Whether Selenskyj the opportunity to talk to Trump will use? And how does EU Commission President Ursula behave from Leyen, who has not been making an appointment in Washington for weeks to talk about punitive tariffs?
Numerous emissaries from the Middle East and South America are also expected. Javier Milei, for example, the President of Francis‘Country of Argentina. The ultrabertarian criticized the Pope’s social commitment and saw in him the “representative of the devil on earth”.
“The diplomacy of the church is profound and extensive, but often not visible with the naked eye,” says Francis Campbell the “told”“. Campbell was a British ambassador in the Vatican from 2005 to 2011.” The Holy Stuhl has a unique mobilization force that will be played on Saturday. “
The funeral service begins at 10 a.m. Most guests should therefore arrive in the evening – so enough time for one or two conversation in the back room.
Enjoy your weekend!
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The agreement, which US President Trump put on the table, ensures broad criticism, because the offer is far towards the Russian demands. You can read the background in the morning star of Thursday. The presses:
The “Team Merz” takes shape
Power is redistributed in Berlin. One will benefit from this who has not exactly spilled with fame during the Corona pandemic: former health minister Jens Spahn. At the moment it is more noticeable by dealing with the AfD. Now he should become the Union’s parliamentary group leader.
The star-Inst reporter for politics, Miriam Hollstein, and political chief Veit Medick discuss the new government team of Friedrich Merz in the “5-minute talk”. According to reports, several positions in the “Team Merz” should be determined.
Al Pacino is 85 years old
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What else is important today
- In Torgau, Saxony, the end of the Second World War is reminded. There, in 1945, American and Soviet soldiers gave their hands, the photo went around the world. This year the commemoration day causes a stir. Because although the Federal Foreign Office recommends the exclusion of Russia from the World War II memorial due to the Ukraine War, the Russian ambassador has announced itself.
- In Braunschweig, a criminal trial about the VW diesel affair is about to graduate. Four former managers and engineers from the Volkswagen Group are on trial, today the taking of evidence could be concluded, the district court announced.
With material from the agencies.
Source: Stern
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