What is shipbuilding for MV? An indispensable part of the economy or a bottomless pit in which to sink taxpayers’ money? Secrecy in Schwerin and Berlin makes the answers difficult.
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The content of the strictly confidential and classified paper from the Ministry of Economics in Schwerin is extremely politically explosive. Should the MV Werften not reliably slip under the federal rescue fund from December or be kept financially alive from the economic stabilization fund and the restructuring of the parent company should fail, the damage to the state of MV would amount to 225 million euros, it says there.
Ministry of Economics is silent
Opinions that should sound out the chances of MV Werften for an economically stable future are desperately awaited – but in between companies and over 3000 jobs have to be saved. Most recently with a bridging loan of 193 million euros. Paid out from the Federal Economic Stabilization Fund – with the hope that the money will not disappear forever in the depths of the Wismar, Stralsund and Warnemünde docks. But that’s not all: MV Werften need loans totaling 570 million euros after the parent company Genting Hong Kong got into financial difficulties due to Corona due to a lack of income from cruise ships and gambling.
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And is there all that money without collateral? Both state and federal economics ministries are silent on this issue. “Parliament’s claims to information are subject to constitutional goods, namely the fundamental rights of third parties that would be violated if the federal government were to disclose it,” says a message from the house of Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier to AfD member Leif-Erik Holm from MV . And Altmaiers State Secretary Ulrich Nussbau announces something else: “After weighing up the right to information of the German Bundestag on the one hand and the protection of company and business secrets on the other hand, the Federal Government classified the requested information as confidential and transmitted it to the German Bundestag’s secret service.”
4.2 billion euros in tax money
The opposition AfD in MV no longer wants to tolerate this secrecy. “We need an economic report that compares the grants, loans, employee aid and guarantees with the jobs, the added value and the tax revenues,” demands parliamentary group leader Nikolaus Kramer. Because: According to information from the State Ministry of Economics, subsidies, loans and guarantees in the amount of around 4.2 billion euros have been granted in the shipyards of the federal and state governments, which have been shaken by numerous crises. “But it remains to be seen how much money flowed back into the public coffers,” Kramer criticizes.
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