next year, Germany is celebrating 30 years of unity. For the Federal Ministry of the interior, the apparently surprising: There, the officials asked for more money to be able to use the anniversary to organize.
For the celebration of the 30. Anniversary of German unity calls for the Federal Ministry of the interior more money. According to a report by the “süddeutsche Zeitung” in the short term by an additional 61 million Euro. “The need is unforeseen,” it is, therefore, to notice.
The Ministry of Horst Seehofer (CSU) had requested for the celebration in 2020 retrospectively for the current financial year up to 30 million Euro, for the coming year, there were 31 million Euro. This is according to the report, a Letter from the financial Secretary of state Bettina Hagedorn to the budget Committee of the Bundestag. More needs to be factually and temporally unavoidable, citing the officials.
A very special anniversary
Actually, the home Minister Seehofer would have had to apply for the money in the budget negotiations in 2019 and 2020. The Letter stated according to the newspaper, however, is that only after the discussions on the budget in 2019, it was clear that the 30. Anniversary of the German unity “should be in both content and scope in a very special way”.
“Honest dialogue” instead of a fixed file
Also, the way it is celebrated, is to be changed according to the will of Seehofer, apparently. Instead of a fixed file he wants a “serious, honest dialogue” about cohesion and living conditions in the East and the West to organize. The Ministry feared, therefore, that, in particular, fixed file “frustrations and tendencies to the social cleavage” could intensify. In addition, in conversation, in the East, a centre dedicated to the “further growing together of East and West”.
Via the additional resources of the Federal Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz, has to decide and he has, according to the report. The SPD politicians have complied with the request Seehofer’s. Until the middle of August, therefore an extra established anniversary to submit to celebrate the Commission’s concrete plans for the Unit.
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