Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier has given freelancers and self-employed people hope for an "entrepreneur wage" in the course of planned improvements to Corona aid.
However, an agreement must still be found in the coalition, Altmaier said after a video conference with business associations in Berlin. Altmaier agreed to improve and increase government aid. It is also about how solo self-employed people can be better helped.
Business associations have been criticizing for a long time that the previous aid is not a perfect fit. Andreas Lutz, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Founders and Self-Employed Germany, said that many solo self-employed workers work from home.
The reimbursement of fixed operating costs previously provided for in the bridging aid is of little use to you. The real costs are living expenses or renting an apartment, because many work from home. The basic security is not a solution.
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According to an Israeli firm, an oil pipeline running from the Red Sea resort of Eilat to the Mediterranean port city of Ashkelon will be extended to the United Arab Emirates,
providing the UAE with a bridge to directly get fossil fuel to Europe. The @TimesofIsrael claimed that it is seen as one of the most important partnerships to have emerged since the countries formed diplomatic relations.
The MoU is between Israel's government-controlled Europe-Asia Pipeline Co, formerly the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline, and the MED-RED Land Bridge, located in the UAE. With US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and other US and UAE officials present,
As the coronavirus epidemic deepens, steps are being taken by the Czech Government to avoid the collapse of the health system, which is burdened by an rising number of hospitalizations and the spread of infection among medical personnel.
The government is also seeking to gain funding from abroad to tide over hospitals at the height of the outbreak, in addition to ordering in medical students and calling on volunteers.
The Czech Government has called for all those with medical experience, including those who have left their profession or are employed abroad, to come back and help as the Czech Republic is preparing for the worst health crisis in its recent history.
For the first time in the second wave of the corona pandemic, patients are being transferred from the Netherlands to German clinics. In the morning a helicopter transported a patient to a hospital in Münster.
This was announced by the coordination center for the distribution of patients in Rotterdam on Friday. A second flight, also from Almere to Münster, should follow. The move is intended to reduce the pressure on the intensive care units.
Almost every second bed in intensive care units is occupied by a patient suffering from Covid-19. Most recently, almost 9,300 new infections were reported within 24 hours on Thursday.
The number of corona patients in hospitals in the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia is increasing sharply.
According to figures from the state government on Friday, around 1420 patients with Covid-19 are currently being treated as inpatients - a week ago it was 950, a month ago around 320. Currently, 275 patients are in the intensive care unit, 148 of them would have to be ventilated.
According to the information, the clinics are still far from their capacity limits. There are currently around 5640 intensive care beds in which the patients can also be ventilated, 1320 of which are currently not occupied.
Real Madrid striker Luka Jovic is threatened with imprisonment in his homeland of Serbia for a suspected violation of Corona rules.
The public prosecutor's office brought charges against the former Bundesliga professional and demanded six months in prison, the state news agency Tanjug reported on Thursday evening.
Under Serbian law, the court must now decide whether to accept the charges against the 22-year-old footballer. According to media reports, the international should have celebrated in the capital, Belgrade.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday visited Health Minister General Eduardo Pazuello, who has COVID-19, and made his point that the disease is easy to recover quickly from with the help of the controversial drug chloroquine.
The two men chatted and joked without wearing masks in Pazuello's hotel room, seen in a video posted on social media by the president, who recovered from a bout of COVID-19 in July.
"This is another concrete case of someone who took chloroquine and it worked," Bolsonaro said. "This is an alternative, when doctors prescribe it."