Financial injection from Berlin: Millions of aid money for Bremen Airport – Economy in Bremen: Latest news

Bremen Airport receives an injection of millions of euros from Berlin. (Hauke-Christian Dittrich)

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Bremen Airport is to receive a million dollar injection from the federal government to compensate for the pandemic costs. This is how the responsible ministries and government groups decided in Berlin. As the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Sarah Ryglewski (SPD), told the WESER-KURIER, a total of 200 million euros are to be paid by the federal government as non-repayable grants in addition to Bremen to the airports of Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Münster / Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart go. The airports in Berlin, Munich and Cologne-Bonn, in which the federal government is involved, are to receive a total of 400 million euros.

According to the Bremen port department, which welcomes the decision, Bremen Airport will receive around twelve million euros. The federal government pays half, the state the other half. At the same time, airports are not allowed to distribute dividends or pay bonuses to their managing directors. State Secretary Ryglewski emphasized the economic and structural importance of Bremen Airport: “Not only for Bremen, but for the entire region: One is Airbus and the other is the many other large companies around the airport – that goes right up to Meyer- Shipyard in Papenburg. “

Before the talks, there was also the scenario in the ministry that the federal government would participate in the “systemically important” airports. According to the “Handelsblatt”, Bremen was not mentioned. Regarding the general participation of the federal government in airports, Ryglewski said: “First of all, this is the regulation on which we have agreed. And we all hope that this pandemic will soon come to an end so that there is no need to talk about further measures. “

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