Spd politician karl lauterbach reports additional income late

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"Huge mistake" by Karl Lauterbach. The SPD's health expert was late in reporting ancillary income to the Bundestag. He had reported an advance fee for a December 2020 book two months late, Lauterbach tweeted on Monday night.

Karl Lauterbach: 17.850 euros for India

"In the process, my office noticed that all ancillary income from 2018/19, 17.850 € for 4 lectures, were not yet reported. Giant mistake, for which I stand straight: 17.850 I donate to India."

Below, Lauterbach posted a donation receipt for 3,000 euros from the UN children's agency Unicef.

In another tweet, Lauterbach confirmed that the money had been taxed. He said that the receipt he had circulated referred only to 3,000 euros, because that was the upper limit for a Donation be. "Rest on Tuesday," writes SPD politician.

Lauterbach told the "Bild": "I have (Bundestag President, d. Red.) Wolfgang Schauble last Thursday about it personally in a letter informed and me apologized. I am still waiting for his answer."

Secondary employment: Information is mandatory

According to Law on Members of Parliament the exercise of the mandate should be the focus of the activities of members of the Bundestag. Secondary employment is permissible, deputies must Additional income from such activities but report to the Bundestag. These are then also published in rough form on their Bundestag pages.

The regulation is intended for Transparency and, among other things, enable voters to find out about possible Conflicts of interest and the independence of the mandate holders to inform.

Lauterbach is not the only politician who has failed to meet this obligation in recent times.

Incidental income: Green politicians had to declare

Last week, it became known that Green Party leader Annalena Baerbock Special payments from her party of more than 25.The parliamentary administration had belatedly reported EUR 000 from previous years. The candidate for chancellor spoke of a "stupid omission".

Among them was also a corona-related special payment of the Greens, which is actually only for employees – Baerbock as party leader, however, receives just no salary of her party.

A short time later, it became known that Green Party politician Cem ozdemir had also overlooked to declare several thousand euros. ozdemir said in May Christmas bonus for the years 2014 to 2017 in the total amount of 20.580.11 euros subsequently reported, after he and his staff noticed that this had inadvertently not yet been done, his office announced on Thursday evening.

He had not been asked to do so by the federal administration. ozdemir also paid taxes on the funds, his office said.

Post-mortem: Criticism from the governing parties

Criticism came from representatives of other parties. "Obviously, covert donations to top politicians from the Greens have had a system for years," said CSU Secretary General Markus Blume the "Bild am Sonntag". "Ms. Baerbock, disclose everything and pay back the morally questionable Corona bonus!"

SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil told the newspaper, "If you want to be in the chancellor's office, you should know rules and stick to them. Top politicians taking tax-free Corona bonuses is totally unnecessary."

Nutritionists and doctors warn of the abundance of sugar in countless foods and the resulting, many overweight people. Sugar is not only found in soft drinks and chocolate. Sugar is also found in milk and many supposedly healthy convenience foods. Although there are corresponding efforts in the EU to do more in this regard, the power of the sugar industry is great, as the current report "A spoonful of sugar" by the NGO Corporate Europe shows.

Every year, the sugar industry spends 21.3 million euros on lobbying in the European Union. Its aim is to prevent stricter and more detailed regulations in the EU or. abate. "There are so many independent scientific studies that show a link between excessive sugar consumption and serious, health risks," says Katharina Ainger, CO author of the study. "But the fact that there is no consensus among EU authorities on the dangers of sugar proves how powerful the food and drink lobby is."

One success, for example, is that food packaging does not distinguish between how much natural sugar – such as fructose – and how much added sugar is contained. Thus, there were some EU countries that would have liked to see this information, but the EU opposes it. And with the EU Food Information Regulation coming into force in December 2016, it will even be illegal to write such things on packaging.

In Germany alone, seven million people had to seek medical treatment for obesity in 2014. Overall, the number of hospitalizations rose 7.1 percent in 2015 to 218 cases from 204 per 1,000 insured patients the previous year. And more than half of EU citizens are overweight or obese, study finds. Above all, the increase in eaten finished products contributes to this. Citizens are increasingly stressed and looking for a quick meal, or they can't afford fresh food. In 2014, ten percent of EU citizens could not even afford a balanced meal every other day.

According to the NGO, the sugar industry is working on several EU levers at the same time. Here's how the industry advocates for trade agreements like CETA and TTIP, which entail a loosening in the food industry. Complaints and lawsuits from companies are used to intimidate states when they want to introduce so-called sugar taxes, for example. The sugar industry also produces its own studies on the consequences of sugar consumption. Not infrequently, they also end up on the table of authorities.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), for example, has evaluated several studies to assess the possible link between too much sugar and obesity. Four of the five studies were from the business community. The result: EFSA said there was insufficient scientific evidence to support a clear link between sugar consumption and obesity. The World Health Organization sees things differently. In addition, companies use the market power they have to sponsor major sporting events.

FoodDrinkEurope association had planned to spend a billion euros on a successful campaign against the introduction of a Europe-wide food traffic light on packaging. The traffic light will not be introduced, although nutrition experts and consumer advocates support the system.

After months in the Lockdown millions of people in Germany have longed for the pandemic to take a summer break. But nothing comes of it, the highly contagious delta variant of the corona virus takes hold. For days now, the numbers have been rising worryingly steeply.

Within twelve days, there was a doubling of the Seven-day incidence. As of Thursday morning, it was reported at 12.2. At the interim low on 6. July the value had been 4.9. According to the weekly report of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Thursday, the Corona case numbers have increased by an average of 61 percent within a reporting week nationwide. According to the report, the current rise in incidence is "particularly evident in the 15- to 34-year-old age groups".

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) called the latest development dramatic at her summer press conference – and urgently objected to Vaccination fatigue. "The more vaccinated, the freer we will be again."

Jens Spahn warns of 800-incidence rate

Already on the previous day, Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) warned if current exponential increase continues, incidence would rise to 400 by September and 800 by October. These would be values that Germany has not seen in the pandemic so far.

According to SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach Delta is considerably more dangerous than suspected. "From everything we know so far, we have to ame that the delta variant is both more contagious and more deadly," Lauterbach told our editorial board.

Also Intensive Care Physician Are alarmed and also demand more progress in vaccination. This is the only way to control delta. But will Germany get the situation under control in time?

How much does delta spread?

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the delta variant is now responsible for three-quarters of all infections in Germany. According to the Institute's weekly report on Thursday, Delta's latest percentage in a sample randomly selected for sequencing was as high as 84 percent.

On Thursday, 1890 new Corona infections and 42 deaths related to the virus were registered within 24 hours. The number of reported Corona deaths in Germany has thus risen to 91.458 increased.

However, the current deaths are not due to the Delta variant. The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi) makes this clear. Also the approximately 350 Covid-19 patients currently on Intensive care units are in the vast majority patients from the third wave, who were infected with the alpha variant in the spring, Divi President Gernot Marx told our editorial team.

However, experience from the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal, for example, showed that the numbers in local clinics could rise rapidly, "this danger also exists in our country".

How the vaccinations are progressing?

In Germany, 48 percent of people – just under 40 million – are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. 60.4 percent have received a first dose. Several million people in this country are unprotected.

While most members of high-risk groups have been immunized. But many of them were vaccinated at the beginning of the year. Your protection against the virus is likely to weaken soon, experts say. Especially in view of the "delta autumn", a third dose will quickly become necessary.

Complicating matters further, early indications from Israel that the Biontech vaccine may be somewhat less effective against the rampant Delta variant.

How dangerous is Delta for younger people?

The World Health Organization WHO Quoted this week from a Canadian study that Covid 19 disease with delta variant also has significantly higher health risks than early corona types.

The risk of needing hospitalization was increased by about 120 percent, and the risk of needing intensive care by 287 percent. The Mortality risk was about 137 percent higher. Lauterbach also referred to this study.

At the same time, he warned of the consequences that the Delta variant would have for Younger may have. "An easy course for our children is not to be expected. Although we have to expect no or very few deaths there, there will be many also severe courses, the end result of which can be Long Covid also for children," said Lauterbach.

Although it is possible to have children over the age of twelve vaccinated with the Biontech active ingredient. A recommendation of the constant inoculation commission does not exist however. Therefore many parents hold back.

What does the development mean for the start of school?

The aim of the policy in the new school year is to provide instruction in the Classrooms to allow. It must be measured against this, says physician president Klaus Reinhardt: "Children and young people need for a healthy development a regulated school operation."

It proposes daily testing before classes begin, two Quick tests per week was not enough. The president of the German Teachers' Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, stressed: "If you want full face-to-face teaching after the vacations, you must also do everything to make it possible." The policy should be "very careful" with promises, which are not durable then because of an incalculable infection occurrence.

Karl Lauterbach: 17.850 euros for India

Secondary employment: Information is mandatory

Incidental income: Green politicians had to declare

Post-mortem: Criticism from the governing parties

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