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three great colleagues in our editorial team have recently been promoted. Have been delivering top performance for years, get involved, mix with the very front. At FC Bayern, Joshua Kimmich is about to take over the captaincy. That is also totally deserved, the man plays flawless passes, works for the team, settles conflicts. Boris Pistorius also proves that he got his ministerial post rightly: finally someone is cleaning up the German defense botch! So you see: Whether it’s business, sports or politics, you can have a well-deserved career anywhere if you show commitment, accept responsibility and work more than others. If you then remain empathetic and collegial, everyone will give you a promotion.
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Anders in England. More precisely: in London. More precisely: in Westminster Abbey, a chapel next to Parliament. There, tomorrow, a 74-year-old gentleman will climb the top rung of the career ladder that exists in Great Britain and its Commonwealth partner countries: Charles Philip Arthur George gets a heap of gold on his gray head – bang, he’s crowned king. Not because he has achieved a lot in his life, but because he is his parents’ child and now it is his turn to succeed to the throne.
What speaks for Charles? One may concede to the passionate environmentalist that he has been committed to nature and climate protection for years and, on top of that, has taken on countless representation appointments. He sponsors 800 charitable initiatives. Before that he studied archaeology, anthropology and history and studied Welsh for the sake of his mother. Since then he can say sentences like “Welsh is a difficult language”, which actually means something (you can google it). He once read the weather forecast for the BBC, sapperlot. He also likes to paint and knows a few magic tricks, not bad either. In Ecuador they named a species of frog after him, the Hyloscirtus Princecharlesi, which I’ll just leave as is. The bottom line is that Mr. Charles will not be offended if you describe him – from a purely personal point of view – as a fairly ordinary, average Brit.
Of course he’s not. He is the Majesty, number one in the people and in the hearts of millions of royalists. He is allowed to lead a life in the lap of luxury at state expense; a host of servants anticipate his every wish. Simply because he is the ruler by birth order. Even if one looks calmly at the constitutional monarchy and smiles at the hype at the coronation tomorrow, even if one Charles III. credits that he only 2,000 guests invited instead of 8,000 as his mother Elizabeth II did in 1953, but a certain amount remains feeling of irritation, that you feel as a democrat.
No question: The world needs role models, especially in times of crisis. A royal campfire might bring a few million people together in front of the flickering discs for two or three hours, maybe that too. But isn’t it possible to go a size smaller? So that the ceremony corresponds more closely to the actual meaning of the office?
There’s a steak restaurant around the corner from me. If a guest has a birthday, the waitress serves an ice cream sundae with a special extra: the Goldregenraketchen. The thing sprays golden confetti rain for 30 seconds, congratulations on that. Fresh, happy, done.
Ehrlich: If it was up to me, a gold rain rocket for the Charles tomorrow would be enough.
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Red high flyer
Mr. Pistorius was already mentioned above, he really has a boost: Since taking office in January, the SPD defense minister has led the popularity list of German politicians. Whether it’s visiting troops, reforming the procurement system or restructuring his ministry: the man who “craves Bendlerblock” exudes energy and determination; even the opposition is amazed.
Today’s appointment should also contribute to the doer image: Together with his Danish counterpart Troels Lund Poulsen Pistorius attends the training of Ukrainian soldiers on Leopard main battle tanks. At the Bundeswehr base in Klietz in Saxony-Anhalt, the men are put in a position to use and maintain the weapon system. So far, more than 3,000 Ukrainians have been trained, and this should be the case by the end of the year 9.000 be.
Green low-flyer
While Boris Pistorius enjoys the highest popularity, another traffic light minister has lost prestige: In the “best man affair” it says Robert Habeck under pressure – despite the mistake of his secretary of state Patrick Graichen in the appointment of the new head of the German Energy Agency and the procedure for filling the post is to be restarted. But the opposition has long recognized the potential for excitement in the case and wants to summon Mr. Graichen to the economic committee next Wednesday. The CDU MPs Gitta Connemann even brings a committee of inquiry into play.
