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«According to our data, the infection fatality rate of Covid-19 seems to be about the same as for seasonal influenza.» Stanford Professor John P.A. Ioannidis on a study he led on the spread of Covid-19

Dear readers,

Many people are still rubbing their eyes in disbelief, trying to figure out what hit them, asking themselves what is happening in our society. According to the official narrative, a not particularly severe flue-like illness has put the world under lockdown. Since the WHO re-declared it a few years ago, a novel Coronavirus has now been characterised as a «pandemic». In spite of its low fatality rate, people have been locked up in their own homes for weeks, sometimes for months on end. Mindless alarmism and contradictions abound. A downward spiral of the world economy has been triggered by the closure of stores, and all the while we are being inundated with sensationalist headlines designed to keep us in fear. We hear of a global pandemic of gargantuan proportions brought about by a killer virus that instead of acting randomly, as one would expect, targets specific groups such as the elderly and those with compromised immune systems. So how does it all fit together? Top scientists have often argued that no distinction is made between victims who died OF the virus, and those who died WITH it. So a terminal cancer patient aged 92 who dies after testing positive for Covid-19 will join the official death toll. And this data, in turn, will be used to further justify lockdown restrictions. How is that possible? According to the New York Times from April 14, 2020, case counts in New York, the global epicentre of the «health crisis», include «probable» Corona deaths in the nationwide tally. No positive laboratory tests required! Coronavirus tests, in any case, have neither been officially approved nor clinically validated. According to one manufacturer they should be used for research purposes only, not for diagnosing patients. I beg your pardon? Moreover, new studies call into question the efficacy of PCR testing. Even Christian Drosten, head of virology at Berlin Charité, tweeted: «Sure, at the end of the amplification process, PCR test results can sometimes come back negative and sometimes positive. Chance plays a role here.» The reported spike in Covid-19 case numbers certainly appears in a different light if one considers the increase in testing. If today 100 of 1,000 and a week later 10,000 of 100,000 come back positive, nothing - apart from the number of people tested - has really changed over the course of that span of time. Incidentally, the undisputed source of Corona statistics is Johns Hopkins University, whose name - today on everybody’s lips - was hardly known before the «health crisis». Particularly suggestive in this context is the whopping 880 million dollars given to Johns Hopkins by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a handsome contribution that seems to suggest that Johns Hopkins is a privately owned university. Bill Gates, once officially the richest man in the world, is also in favour of vaccinating all 7 billion people on the planet. The basis for such initiative is once again to be found in the numbers chalked up by Johns Hopkins University. It all appears to be more than just coincidence. We all remember the growing sense of panic as terrifying figures made daily headlines in the evening news, without which such drastic measures would have been practically unthinkable. Just think of the

financial maelstrom that engulfed the global economy. In Germany alone, according to the German Business Exchange (DUB), a shocking 39% of all German companies and even 50% of companies from highly affected sectors might soon be facing insolvency! To that we must add the widespread closure of stores and restaurants, the lockdowns and social distancing, the solitary confinement of the elderly, the mandatory face masks and the economic, health and psychological impact on the world population, the effects of which cannot be reckoned. By using the «pandemic» as a means to declare a state of global emergency, the WHO has robbed citizens of their most basic constitutional rights in the biggest power grab the world has yet seen, hijacking governments and making a mockery of democracy in the process. Dear readers, our goal with this issue is to bring you, in the usual in-depth approach borne out by verifiable and publicly accessible sources, important information about the WHO, its interdependence with the pharmaceutical industrial complex and its total dependence on Bill Gates’ money. We will put the present «Corona crisis» in perspective by taking a retrospective glance at past «pandemics» that turned out to be nothing of the kind. All this and much more, touching upon a discernible political agenda that backdrops our main topic of discussion, without delving too deeply into speculation about its venal schemes and machinations. Owing to its global scope and historically unprecedented relevance, this issue of ExpressZeitung could well be the most important to date. By addressing the manifold questions surrounding vaccination, we intend to assist our readership in the process of informing friends and acquaintances as well as government officials and public servants about its potential dangers. It is in this spirit that we are making issue 32 of ExpressZeitung available in larger quantities at cost price (German edition) and free-of-charge in PDF format (both in English and German), which you can download in one click from our website as well as from our Telegram channel. Dear readers, a turning point of monumental significance looms large in the horizon. How this will affect us and all we hold dear is yet to be seen. The «house on fire» effect, in the context of the alleged man-made climate change crisis, was popularised by Margaret Klein Salamon & Co (see issue 27) and her protégé Greta Thunberg. Putting their metaphor to better use, we can say that this time around our house is really on fire, and we must open our eyes to see it! Because to sleep long enough in a democracy means to wake up in a dictatorship! We have made this issue free and digitally available so it can reach as many people as possible. Your participation would be greatly appreciated! Covid-19 is sure to keep us busy in upcoming editions and grant us ample occasion to examine its spiralling effects. (ab)

Topic of this issue:

Corona mass hysteria: Thrust into disaster by a sham pandemic? The so-called «Corona crisis» has ushered us into a world that few months ago would have been inconceivable. And to declare a «pandemic» was all it took. Under the pretext of exceptional measures, governments can now curtail our civil liberties in both the public and private domain, and thereby infringe on our right to live our lives as we see fit. Lockdowns and social distancing bear witness to the emergence of a global dystopia as economic fallout from «Corona» casts a long shadow over the future of entire societies. The long-predicted «crash» could be imminent. But is this a fair price to pay? Or is the cost of a wrecked economy far greater than the threat posed by an alleged virus? We ought to ask ourselves whether we are really facing such a severe infectious disease before plunging entire countries into recession. If that was not the case, politicians as well as the media would be caught up in a colossal scandal of their own making. What if it ever came to light that the WHO & Co. overplayed the «Covid-19 pandemic»? It would mean that the world was brought to its knees without rhyme or reason. Is that the case? Let’s get right to it!

How deadly is the «Coronavirus»?

Lobbying Corona: Who will guide us through this «crisis»?

Are the likes of Christian Drosten, Bill Gates & Co., the WHO, and the Robert Koch Institute worthy of our trust and admiration?

Health Is «SARS-CoV-2» a new dangerous virus?

Covid-19 has been successful in wrecking

Mind-blowing: According to many renowned experts, COVID-19 is roughly comparable to the flu.

A question of vital importance: Died «with» or «of» Covid-19?

Patients who allegedly died of Covid-19 across Europe were 80 years on average and often suffered from previous illnesses. Could it be that normal causes of mortality are now presented as Corona deaths ?

SARS: Coronavirus, First Act

2003 saw the first widespread media coverage of a Coronavirus pandemic . Today, as back then, the official narrative is fatally undermined by a lack of evidence.

How real is the «Spanish ﬂu»?

Corona has given new meaning to the Spanish flu , often cited as a classic example and a reminder that pandemics represent a latent threat to millions of people. But can the 1918 narrative about a deadly viral disease withstand closer scrutiny?

the world economy and taking away our civil liberties. And to add insult to injury, the existence of a highly contagious deadly virus is yet to be scientifically proven. We will explore this in greater detail.

Can health measures make you sick?

Is the health of the world population being effectively protected by Corona countermeasures?

A test-based epidemic?

The efficacy of the PCR test used to detect SARS-CoV-2 is amply questioned by many doctors and scientists. Surely it is reasonable to consider that an increase in the number of tests will lead to an increase in Corona figures.

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Worldwide health measures the likes of which the world has never seen were rolled out in the so-called fight against Corona. Many experts are vocal in condemning them as being grossly out of proportion.

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At a glance The policymakers and media outlets spearheading the «war» on Covid-19, and whose job is to safeguard the common good and keep the population informed, lack enough credibility for us to put our blind trust in them. The World Health Organization (WHO) is under complete sway of external forces: According to ZEIT, «The secret head of the WHO» is none other than Bill Gates. In the past, this organisation has gained notoriety for using fear-mongering tactics on behalf of pharmaceutical giants. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, its current director-general, was member of a Marxist terror regime, and that is equally important to keep in mind.

orona keeps a firm grip on the planet by spreading fear. We see governments under the heel of a technocratic establishment that rules with an iron fist of extraordinary measures. What disastrous

Other key players in the so-called «Corona crisis» include US Health Minister Alex Azar (ex-president of the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly), Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (former pharmaceutical lobbyist), the German authority in infectious disease epidemiology RKI (with close ties to the pharmaceutical industry), and many others. Not the kind of people one would call «unbiased» and «trustworthy». Already during the «Bird and Swine Flu», the health disaster predicted by the WHO along with politicians and the media turned out to be much ado about nothing. There is no reason to believe that this time around it will be any different.

consequences this will have for the world at large should be more than clear. The first question we have to ask ourselves is whether the institutions and government officials responsible for such measures have hitherto excelled

in their duties. Can we trust them enough to blindly follow their plan of action and healthcare advice? Let us cast a backward glance over previous decades, because if we don’t learn anything from the past, we are doomed to repeat it.

ad us through this crisis? How trustworthy is the WHO? very time disease rears its ugly head, regardless of geographical origin, the World Health Organization (WHO) is there to step in. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it now emerges as a global command body that pretends to maintain a tight rein on Corona. This UN specialised agency counts with 194 member countries, and has 7000 people on the payroll around the world. On March 11, 2020, the WHO officially declared Corona a pandemic. Its detractors have off ten pointed out its heavy dependence on private donors and accused it of promoting legislation friendly to the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of patients. Are these allegations true?

Die ZEIT: «The secret head of the WHO is called Bill Gates»

id you know that the WHO’s agenda has long been set by a multi-billionaire? The German newspaper ZEIT made this claim, as well as the ARTE television channel in its documentary «The WHO: In the Grip of the

«The survival of mankind depends on this organisation. For that reason its performance should be ﬂawless, but that is clearly not the case.» Corinne Lepage, former French Minister of the Environment, on the WHO Source: youtube.com, Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten - Doku HD, 14 March 2018

Lobbyists». The WHO operates on a budget of around two billion dollars - not much more than a large hospital -, that the 194 member countries pay in membership dues every year. But that is not even a quarter of the total budget. The WHO relies mostly on donations that for tthe most part come from rich countries like the US, Great Britain or Japan, but aalso from foundations and other organissations. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation being its second largest donor afd tter the US, followed in the fourth place by tthe vaccination alliance GAVI (see page 7 ff.), ) set up by Bill Gates. That is why the German weekly ZEIT published an article under the headline, p «The secret head of the WHO is called Bill « Gates». During an interview with ZEIT, G leading public health expert David McCoy brings up an important point: «The C biggest organisation in world health, the b WHO, has a big problem: It is broke and W its existence depends on donations. Can tthis pose a threat to its independence?» He then points out that the WHO agenda H is increasingly being steered by private

donors, most notably by Bill Gates. If the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was to stop giving Geneva millions of US dollars in annual donations, the WHO would most likely fold up. It only makes sense that Gates would have a correspondingly big influence on the content of its program. What does that say about the WHO’s credibility when one of the wealthiest people at the top seems to be using it for personal gain? Incidentally, Gates’ tax return from 2014 clearly shows investments in pharmaceutical companies such h as Novartis and d GlaxoSmithKline. l h l Every time the WHO advises the UN states to buy drugs and vaccines (see page 14 ff.), Bill Gates, already a multi-billionaire, gets a lot richer. Should we follow the advice of an organisation that according to ZEIT is entirely and hopelessly in the grip of private interests? (tk)

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The four largest donors to the WHO. Bill Gates’ foundation is in second place, and the vaccination alliance GAVI, his brainchild, is in fourth place. The Gates foundation has donated over $ 2 billion US Dollars since the late 90s. Source: youtube.com, Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten - Doku HD, 14 March 2018

«The WHO has been underfunded, for decades now. And the problem is that we now have a UN agency that is being largely funded by a single private individual, in this case, Bill Gates.» Dr. David McCoy, doctor and public health expert Source: youtube.com, Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten - Doku HD, 14 March 2018

«If you asked a man on the street: ‹Would you like the WHO to be sponsored by an airline or a junk food company? Would you like that? Would you feel safe?› People would probably be shocked. But this is what’s going on at the moment.» Patti Rundall, International action network for baby food Source: youtube.com, Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten - Doku HD, 14 March 2018

«If Bill Gates announced tomorrow, he’d rather fund education or even something entirely different, ff […] the WHO would fall apart. The decision-making authority lays in the hands of a single individual. And that is an expression of feudal power.» Thomas Gebauer, former director of the human rights organisation Medico International Source: youtube.com, Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten - Doku HD, 14 March 2018

«If you have a private party which gives more money than the UK does, which gives more money than Germany does, which gives more money than the US government does, to an institution, you would expect them to have some influence. It’s kind of naïve to think that they wouldn’t have that influence. What people often don’t understand, is how they influence and what that means. What are the objectives of the Gates Foundation? They don’t have an open mind, but they come in with their own agenda.»

«One doesn’t simply ﬁnance, without installing employees. This is very worrying because it potentially means that the WHO is being driven by its donors. Not only through ﬁnancial support, but also by taking over their staff ff and allowing them to manage the program.»

James Love of NGO Knowlege Ecology International

K.M. Gopakumar from the NGO Third World Network

Source: youtube.com, Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten Doku HD, 14 March 2018

Source: youtube.com, Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten - Doku HD, 14 March 2018

«We know the composition of the expert commissions in the responsible bodies, including the WHO. And manufacturers are a common sight at our tables. [...] We criticise potential conflicts of interest, because if the relevant experts or regulatory authorities are on the payroll, as it seems to be the case here, the decision of the board of experts and regulating officials are at least theoretically biased in favour of the manufacturer.» Dr. Angela Spelsberg from the Transparency International association during the Swine Flu 2009 Source: youtube.com, Plusminus: So geht Lobby - Das Geschäft mit der Schweinegrippe, g 19.03.2010

«There are a number of people who worked in the pharmaceutical industry and have carried over their mindset to the WHO. In that way they make sure the decisions being made at the WHO are consistent with the interests of Big Pharma.» Prof. Peter Schönhöfer, pharmacologist Source: youtube.com, Doku | Profiteure der Angst - arte 2009, 27.03.2020

e How vaccine es and his GAVI Vaccine Alliance: Bill Gates’ manufacturers rake in billions from taxpayers

At the Berlin Pledging Conference in January 2015 alone, Gavi collected around 7 billion dollars for vaccinations from Western states, under the auspices of the Gates Foundation.

s early as 1999, Bill Gates made a donation of 750 million US dollars to set up the GAVI Vaccination Alliance (the acronym stands for Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), a public-private partnership in which the WHO, Unicef, the Gates Foundation and the pharmaceutical industry, among others, joined forces with one goal in mind: To vaccinate children in developing countries. «Coincidentally», the Vaccination Alliance is headquartered in Geneva, in the shadow of the WHO. And GAVI makes no secret of the fact that it was co-funded by the latter, which now has a hand in its operations. We may call GAVI an «underling of the WHO». If the shoe ﬁts... What exactly is going on at GAVI? Simply put: States buy their vaccines from vaccine manufacturers. In addition, rich nations in

the West pick up the bill of impoverished nations by ﬁnancing vaccinations across the Third World. Germany alone has given hundreds of millions to the cause: «Germany has been a GAVI donor country since 2006. Initial commitments amounted to 4 million euros per year. Since then, Germany has continuously increased its annual pledge to GAVI, which rose to 30 million euros in 2012. In January 2015, Germany hosted the GAVI donor conference in Berlin under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the run-up to the conference, various non-governmental organisations demanded that the German pled-

ges be increased to 100 million euros annually. In her speech at the conference, Chancellor Merkel announced that she wanted to increase the support to 600 million euros by 2020.» The pharmaceutical companies sell their vaccinations to the developing world at a more affordable price than, for example, to Germany. But it is quite likely thatthey still make a profit: «GlaxoSmithKline sent a representative to the board of GAVI as a partner until 2011. Critics complain that the vaccine prices could be even lower. [...] Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam criticised the influence of the industry on GAVI, and demanded transparent pricing and publicly funded research.» According to the ARTE documentary «The WHO - In the Grip of Lobbyists», GAVI is the fourth largest donor to the WHO after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (in second place), the USA and Great Britain. Bill Gates («The secret head of the WHO», as ZEIT put it, see page 5) is involved at many levels in the financing of the largest health organisation in the world. (tk) :; M?A?F;:?7 EH= !7L? :?; #CF<7BB?7DP OEKJK8; 9EC ?; 1") #C !H?<< :;H &E88O?IJ;D EAK " '7H9>

CEPI: What part is Bill Gates playing in the Corona vaccination race All 193 Member States, you u mustt make vaccines a high priority in your health systems, in order to ensure that all your children have access to existing vaccines now – and to new vaccines as they become available. […] And, finally, by the end of this decade, every country can have a delivery system to make sure those vaccines are getting out to every single child. Bill Gates in 2011 to the WHO-World Health Assembly in Geneva Source: WHO, Address by Mr Bill Gates to the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly Geneva, 17.05.2011

bout CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations), of which Bill Gates is mentioned as one of the founders, we can read on German Wikipedia: «The 2014 Ebola fever epidemic took the global community largely by surprise, and the development of three vaccines came too late and proved to be insufficient. [...] The insight that rapid vaccine development can avert global epidemics led to the demand for an efficient world-

wide system that is fully prepared for research and development of new vaccines. Such platforms should allow clinical studies to be launched faster, ease development and speed up the rollout of vaccines.» What is euphemistically worded here

is an indirect plea to accelerate regulatory approval, which was already granted in 2009 for some drugs against the alleged swine ﬂu (Arepanrix and Humenza). In short, CEPI’s main objective is to mass-produce vaccines and get them

approved as fast as possible. Just like GAVI (see), CEPI is also a public-private partnership between governments, the WHO, the EU Commission, research institutions, the vaccine industry and private donors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (1) How tax money is used at CEPI to ﬁnance private projects can be seen in the current «Corona crisis». CEPI hass also entered the race to develop a CoC The headquarters of rona vaccine, which could also be e CureVac in Tübingen. fast-tracked. A vaccine normally Covid-19 research takes at least a year and a half to conducted by this get through standard regulatory pharmaceutical company approval, but CEPI demands that is backed by among others exceptions be made here if a staBill Gates and the German te of emergency such as a major federal government. pandemic is declared. That would be b the case now, if one believes the official fficial narrative about Corona. So it said in midMarch 2020 on the website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research about Headline from the online the Corona vaccination race: portal of the «We will provide an additional 140 milSwiss newspalion euros in support of CEPI’s global vacper Blick from cine initiative. CEPI has already commisApril 6th, 2020. sioned six institutes worldwide to develop It sounds like vaccines - including the German biotech a threat. One company CureVac. We use the money to could interpret ensure that research can continue.» (2) Gates’ words as follows: If According to this data, CEPI enjoys you don’t get over 100 million euros in taxpayers’ movaccinated, you ney from Germany alone. won’t get your freedom back.

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CureVac: A front for Gates and Big Pharma? The Tübingen-based pharmaceutical company CureVac is part of CEPI and therefore indirectly involved in these funds. It has already received tens of millions of US dollars from CEPI and now about 8 million more are being added to the development of the Corona vaccine as part of the support provided by the German government. Make no mistake about it, the best deals are struck with the state. Wikipedia says about CureVac: «In February 2015 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was won as a new investor and in

October 2015 a private placement with ﬁve other investors (Baillie Gifford, ff Chartwave Ltd., Coppel family, Northview and Sigma Group) and a volume of 98.7 Million euros. In 2017 there was a further capital increase with the participation of the US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co. in the amount of 45.0 million euros. Since it was founded in 2000, CureVac has raised funds totalling over 360 million euros by issuing shares.» (3) In other words: Due to its shareholders, CureVac is anything but independent. If you see Tübingen written on the label,

«There are some good things happeening. The work on a vaccine […] that’s going full speed s ahead. Our foundation is funding that. We are looking at getting vaccines to everybod d dy in the world. In the long run that is the keey thing.» Bill Gates, 26 March2020 on Corona in a interview with CNN NN Source: youtube.com, b Bill ill Gates makes k a prediction di i about bout when coronavirus cases will peak, 26.03.2020

you can be sure that international investors, pharmaceutical companies and, once again, Bill Gates have a hand in it. Granted that this looks similar to most other research on Corona. Bill Gates is also involved in the race for the ﬁrst corona vaccine in other ways. For example, the US pharmaceutical company Inovio received $ 5 million from the Gates Foundation to develop a vaccine against Covid-19. (4) A total of seven Corona vaccine researches are co-ﬁnanced by Bill Gates. (5) (tk)

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Ex member of Marxist terror regime, today Director-General of the WHO

ho do you think has been appointed to what is probably the most important position amid global mass hysteria? The director-general of the WHO is the African national Tedros Adhanom, the man who calls the shots in the Covid-19 response effort. He was part of the politburo of the Marxist-Leninist «People’s Liberation Front of Tigray» (TPLF). (1) As a party, this organisation is today the dominant force in the coalition ruling Ethiopia, the «Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples». The TPLF was listed in the 90s as a terror organisation by the US government (2) and also listed as a terrorist organisation in the «Global University of Maryland’s Terrorism Database» (GTD). Armed attacks by the TPLF in rural areas continue to be registered there up to the present day. (3) The TPLF has been guilty of numerous human rights violations since it came to power in 1991. In 2005, today’s WHO chief Tedros Adhanom became Minister of Health in the TPLF government, and in 2012 assumed office as Foreign Minister. Among other things, around 500 protesters critical of the government in the Oromia region, were shot dead by police forces during Tedros’ term of office. (4) In the Human Freedom Index 2017 of the Cato Institute, Ethiopia is in the bottom ranks (146th out of 159). (5) Tedros is also known for his hymns of praise for the communist dictatorship in China. China has invested billions in Ethiopia, e.g. 70% of the roads were built by China. And Tedros seems to see China as a model for his country’s development. This comes

WHO chief Tedros and Bill Gates at the 2018 Malaria Summit in London.

as no surprise, being a long-time member of a Marxist terrorist organisation/party. Tedros showed his true colours with his decision to appoint the long-time President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, as an «ambassador of goodwill» for the WHO in 2017. Mugabe (deceased in 2019) was a brutal dictator and mass murderer. It was only after massive protests that Tedros had to reverse his decision. (6) This member of a violent Marxist regime that murdered innocents, persecuted jour-

nalists and dissidents is now Director-General of the WHO. Can we trust his words in the context of Corona? (tk)

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US Secretary of Health and former heavyweight in the pharmaceutical industry

he reports from the US Disease Agency CDC are often taken directly from the WHO. Their word has more weight than that of any other epidemic authority in the world, also in the case of Corona. These two organisations have been closely linked for years, one reason for this being that the US is the main donor of the WHO. Numerous other connections, often of a personal nature, remain a contributing factor to this dynamic. Presently, the CDC reports to the United States Department of Health, managed by Alex Azar. From 2012 to 2017 he was President of Lilly USA, a subsidiary of the global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co. (tk) Source: en.wikipedia.org, Alex Azar

Health minister Jens Spahn: A pharma lobbyist?

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ho exactly is Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU)? Spahn was only «a part-time member of parliament», wrote Focus magazine (1) as early as December 4, 2012, prior to Spahn taking up his current post: «The 32-year-old political scientist, largely viewed by CDU party members as the future Minister of Health, secretly profited from intensive lobbying for the healthcare industry through a discreet business network.» But that’s not all, «With his friends Markus Jasper and Max Müller, Spahn founded a civil law association (GbR) in April 2006. It belonged to the consulting firm Politas, which mainly provides advice to clients from the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Jasper (38) and Spahn go back a long way as they both were at the Junge Union Deutschlands (Young Union of Germany). Müller, for his part, is a well-connected lobbyist who worked for the pharmaceutical wholesaler Celesio and the Rhön clinics». Müller later became director of the online pharmacy DocMorris. (2) Spahn knew how to take advantage of his political influence. According to Focus, he «developed the latest laws and reforms in the health sector, while his partner Müller would have informed and advised customers from the health industry in real time. [...] He was well aware that his newly acquired position as Minister of Health could yield large profits in consulting fees from the healthcare industry since he concealed his role as a lobbyist». Well, not really: «At no point in time has there been a conflict of interest», Spahn is quoted as saying to the magazine. Focus riposted: «That’s hard to believe. Since 2005, Spahn has been responsible for health policy in important positions in parliament.» He sold his Politas shares in 2010, according to his own claims: «He wanted to avoid giving

Already as an early member of the Bundestag, Jens Spahn sold his services to a special interest group, and he had a big dog in that fight. How could a former pharmaceutical lobbyist, of all people, have become Germany’s Minister Of Health? These key government positions demand the utmost integrity and honesty, qualities rarely if ever found in lobbyists.

the impression of a conﬂict of interest that could affect his reputation, as far as his side of the story goes.» But those who continued to show an interest in the topic were left hanging: «Back then, Spahn sent us a statement in response to the Focus article», wrote the Lobby Control Initiative, «but the statement left open many important questions. We sent Spahn a series of inquiries - but he has remained silent to this day». (3) (gw/tk) <E9KI :; #C (;8;D@E8 8=;EH:D;J;H (H 3 EDB?D; $KD; BE88O9EDJHEB :; ?D 8=;EH:D;J;H C?J &E88O7=;DJKH ^ $;DI -F7>D 7DJMEHJ;J D?9>J $7DK7HO