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The confrontation between Manchester City and Bayern Munich, on Tuesday, grabs attention in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the European Champions League in football, which witnesses an exam for Real Madrid, the Spanish champions, with the injured English Chelsea, and a fiery Italian duel between Napoli and Milan.
The confrontation between City and Bayern will be the first between them in the knockout stages in a competition that Bavarian won six times, the last of which was in 2020, while City is searching for its first title.
And while Bayern got rid of the star-studded French Paris Saint-Germain (1-0 and 2-0), German city Leipzig swept 8-1 on aggregate, and former Bosnian sports director Hassan Salihamidzic described the confrontation as a “mini-final.”
“We are facing another team with a lot of capabilities,” he added. It’s the strongest team for me. It was amazing once morest RB Leipzig. We will enjoy this confrontation.”
This confrontation will pit the Spanish coach of City, Josep Guardiola, once morest the team he supervised from 2013 to 2016, with whom he won the German League title three times and the Club World Cup.
Also, Guardiola, who was crowned coach with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, will stand up to the new coach of Bayern, Thomas Tuchel, who was deprived of continental glory in the 2021 final, when he was at the head of the technical management of Chelsea (1-0) in front of empty stands in Porto at the height of the pandemic. COVID-19.
Tuchel, who admires Guardiola’s style and was suddenly appointed to replace Julian Nagelsmann due to a decline in the level according to his management, hopes to repeat what he did with Chelsea, where he arrived four months ago following his dismissal from Saint-Germain’s coaching.
He said following his recent victory over Freiburg (1-0), where he remained the leader of the German League, two points ahead of Borussia Dortmund: “We have some players who suffer from injuries, while City was in great shape at last. But in football things are not so simple. We will face them with courage, knowing that we have to put in a great performance.”
And while Guardiola is still a strong contender for the top spot in the English Premier League with Arsenal, his career will be judged by his results in the Champions League. “I don’t agree with that, but obviously we will be judged by this competition.”
Guardiola is counting on the lethal Norwegian scorer Erling Haaland, who has scored 44 goals in various competitions this season, including a wonderful acrobatics at the weekend once morest Southampton.
Pep said regarding the 22-year-old player, who scored 33 goals in 25 Champions League matches, “We tested two decades of scoring time with the superstars (Portuguese) Cristiano Ronaldo and (Argentine) Lionel Messi, and he is at the same level.”
The winner will meet between City and Bayern, the qualifier for the other upcoming confrontation between Real Madrid, the 14-time (record-holder) champions, and Chelsea.
And following getting rid of Liverpool in the final price by beating it 5-2 away from home and 1-0 back, the defending champion collides on Wednesday at home with another English team, Chelsea, in a repeat of the semi-finals of the 2020-2021 season, when the London team emerged victorious (1-1 and 2). -0) and the quarter-finals of last season, when the Royal Club won the first leg away from home 3-1 and qualified for the semi-finals despite losing the second leg at home 2-3 following extension in an epic match, especially from French Real striker Karim Benzema.
Italian Carlo Ancelotti, the champion of the competition four times as a coach (a record), will meet his former London team.
And while Barcelona seems close to winning the Spanish League title for the first time since 2019, Real is devoting itself to its beloved competition, noting that it also reached the local cup final, where it will meet Osasuna.
On the other hand, Chelsea is going through a bad phase despite the huge signings he made, so he sacked his coach Graham Potter following falling to eleventh place in the Premier League and appointed his former player and coach Frank Lampard on a temporary basis until the end of the season.
Lampard said: “My mission? Restore the highest degree of confidence in the group.
Milan, the Italian champion of the competition seven times, will be facing his compatriot Napoli, who imposed himself as one of the best teams in the old continent this season, by leading the local league by 16 points from Lazio and reaching the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in his history.
It is true that Napoli came very close to winning its first league title since 1990 in the days of the late Argentine legend Diego Maradona, but Milan swept it early this month with a clean four in its own backyard, when its injured Nigerian scorer Victor Osimhen was absent.
This is the first Italian confrontation in the knockout stages since the Milan Derby in the 2005 semi-finals.
Napoli coach Stefano Pioli said: “I would have preferred not to meet an Italian team. Milan has the experience of a competition that won the title seven times.
The winner of this confrontation will meet the winner between Italian Inter and Benfica, which kicks off on Tuesday at the Portuguese capital team.
Inter, who qualified for the quarter-finals for the first time since 2012 and the last of the Italian teams to win the title in 2010, led by Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, will be facing Benfica, in a repeat of the 1965 final, when Nerazzurri won its second consecutive title by winning 1-0.
For his part, Benfica has not succeeded in going beyond the quarter-finals since reaching the 1990 final.
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The Greens are proposing a new law to protect drinking water in Bavaria. The Bavarian water safety law aims to safeguard water from corporate exploitation, pollution, and waste, as well as from a government that fails to recognize its importance, particularly in light of climate change. Ludwig Hartmann, the parliamentary group leader, stated that the law, which will be introduced to the state parliament by Pentecost at the latest, represents a novelty in Germany and builds on existing legislation to prioritize the safety of drinking water. The Water Safety Act includes several core features like a ban on new deep water uses unless they are for public supply, the designation of 12% of the country’s area as water protection areas by 2030, and certain fees for water usage, which aim to promote conservation. Additionally, the act provides for the creation of a centralized register to monitor groundwater usage to ensure protection. Critics of the law, such as Hans Theiss, the health policy spokesman for the CSU, argue that the Greens’ approach is excessively prohibitive and fails to seek a sensible compromise, thereby penalizing companies unfairly.
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To protect drinking water, the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament are planning a Bavarian water safety law. “Protecting our water is our top priority. We want to protect our water from exploitation by corporations, from pollution and waste and from a state government that still hasn’t understood how important it is to secure our elixir of life, water, especially in times of climate change,” said parliamentary group leader Ludwig Hartmann of the Germans Press agency in Munich. The law will be introduced to the state parliament by Pentecost at the latest.
According to Hartmann, the Water Safety Act is a novelty in Germany and forms a superstructure on existing laws. “With the Water Safety Act, we are improving several state laws and are putting the safety of our drinking water above all else.”
The green tip in Bavaria: Katharina Schulze and Ludwig Hartmann
The Water Safety Act comprises several cornerstones:
DEEP GROUNDWATER: New deep water uses should be banned. The only exception: the public supply. An admixture of deep groundwater is only permitted in special cases, which is currently the case in the Bavarian chemical triangle. “But it should remain the exception and does not release the state government from the obligation to initiate all necessary measures for the remediation of the near-surface groundwater bodies.”
WATER PROTECTION AREAS: By 2030, twelve percent of the country’s area should be designated as water protection areas. This goal is firmly anchored in the law. “We currently only have water protection areas in five percent of the state in Bavaria. That’s not enough.” Other states such as Hesse or Baden-Württemberg have designated up to 20 percent of their land area for water protection. The designation of the areas should be carried out by the district governments.
WATER FEES: If a company pumps off groundwater close to the surface, this should cost eight cents per cubic meter. If a company uses the even more valuable deep water, it should pay one euro per cubic meter of water in the future. The income can then be invested in the remediation of the groundwater bodies. In 13 out of 16 federal states, a water cent is common practice: “Commercial users are encouraged to save.”
WATER WITHDRAWAL REGISTER: There is currently no central register in the Free State that shows who is pumping how much water out of the ground and where. “It’s like the Wild West. We simply do not know how much groundwater is actually pumped out in Bavaria. Without an overview, no verification, no protection. We want to know what our most valuable common property is being used for and by whom,” says Hartmann.
Hans Theiss: “The Greens offend everyone”
Water spies in Bavaria? And once more higher costs for the companies that are already tormented by the high energy prices in Germany? Hans Theiss (45), the health policy spokesman for the CSU in Munich City Hall, the green demands go far too far.
CSU politicians: Greens attack companies in the usual manner of prohibition
He told BILD: “Our groundwater is a very important asset and must be protected – it’s not for nothing that we have the best tap water in Munich. But the Greens, as always, throw the baby out with the bathwater. Instead of negotiating a sensible compromise with everyone involved, they attack the companies in the usual manner of prohibition and offend everyone. Blind ideological activism with foam at the mouth has rarely solved problems.”
In conclusion, the proposed Bavarian water safety law by the Greens has sparked debates and discussions on the protection of drinking water in the state. While the law comprises several cornerstones such as banning new deep water uses, designating water protection areas, implementing water fees, and creating a water withdrawal register, some politicians criticize the new law for being too prohibitive and not considering all stakeholders involved. Regardless, the issue of protecting drinking water remains a top priority for the Greens and the state government, especially in times of climate change.
Feedback: a restless Saturday night
It was not the bells that woke up the inhabitants of Bierset on Saturday (in the communes of Grace-Hollogne and Awans), near Liège, this night; but the bass sounds emitted by a rave party.
This type of event is not a first since the police have already intervened several times in recent years for parties at this place. Rallies also reportedly took place last weekend.
It is an abandoned hangar, near Liège airport, a former army building, which now belongs to SOWAER, the Walloon airport company. There are few houses very close but the sound seems to reach the neighboring districts.
About 2000 people participated in this rave. The equipment was installed around midnight (between Friday and Saturday) and the revelers arrived at 3 am “It’s scheduled until Monday eveningconfirms a participant from Tournai, but maybe the police will stop first.“Many French people from the North of the Flemings and the Hainauts are present on the Liège site.
“It was greatsays one participant, and there, we’re going to sleep a little in the car“. The party is self-managed by the participants, with prevention stands: “everything is set up so that everyone has a good evening.“
Annoyed residents
About the nuisances, the participants of the rave understand that this can annoy the local residents but here, we are in a zone, there are not really close residents” justifies another speaker. This is not really the opinion of a young woman, who lives in the neighborhood: “it makes a lot of noise, we have a little trouble sleeping and these people leave their waste there. We notified the police, they said they were taking charge of the situation, but nothing changed. They say they are understaffed.“
According to several sources, the local police, warned, would not actually have the human resources necessary to intervene. “We saw them at the beginning, there were a lot of them, but they left“, says a participant.