DAccording to preliminary estimates, the devastating flood in July caused 13 billion euros in property damage in North Rhine-Westphalia alone.This means that the North Rhine-Westphalia Chancellor and Federal Chancellor candidate Armin Raschelt At the special session of the state legislature in Düsseldorf. According to Laschet, in Rhineland-Palatinate, at least the same number is expected to occur again.
Therefore, federal and state reconstruction funds will require between 2 and 30 billion euros. This package plan will be completed within these hours, and only through “national efforts” can “the consequences of this national disaster” be overcome. The fund will be decided at the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister’s meeting on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia promised that during the reconstruction and the new beginning, everyone will be able to rely on social solidarity and ensure that the affected people can create a new life in their hometown. Rashet promised: “We will do our best to ensure that every town, village and family after reconstruction can be restored to good condition, and look forward to the future with optimism.”
Fritz Jaeckel becomes North Rhine-Westphalia Reconstruction Commissioner
“The rapid reconstruction of thousands of private apartments and houses may have never happened in North Rhine-Westphalia since the war.” This is how he appointed the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Construction to rebuild. Commissioner’s reason. He has delegated this task to Fritz Jaeckel, managing director of the North Westphalian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Until 2017, Jacques held a leading position in the Saxony state government for many years, most recently as the head of the Dresden State Chancellery. Jaeckel also helped deal with the major floods in 2002 and 2013. Therefore, Jaeckel knew exactly what to do in this situation, Laschet said.
In addition, he also asked Albrecht Broemme, who has served as the chairman of the Federal Technical Relief Agency for a long time, to immediately use the July disaster as an example to investigate how to protect cities and villages more effectively in the event of a disaster. Raschelt said Germany must do better in disaster control and warning. He has told the prime ministers of other affected countries that Brom will also analyze the situation there.
North Rhine-Westphalia opposition party questioned wrong
Opposition leader Thomas Kuchati (SPD) said that the task of parliament also includes questioning errors. It is important to clarify whether the disaster is foreseeable, whether the early warning has failed, and whether the government should convene a national crisis team. Kutschaty said that it is the prime minister’s job to convene a crisis team. In addition, any expert minister who is affected by a certain situation can propose a meeting. “Any ministers made suggestions?” Kucha asked.
In fact, even at the worst stage of the disaster, there is no crisis team of the state government, but only a coordination team of the Ministry of the Interior. Kutschaty said: “I lack the imagination of what disaster should happen to our country in order to convene the country’s crisis team, if not during such a devastating national flood.” Kutschaty announced that his parliamentary team will follow up on issues such as It is necessary that the opposition will take all measures and not use the term “investigation committee”.
The CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate wants to investigate
In Rhineland-Palatinate, the opposition CDU parliamentary group called for the establishment of a committee to investigate the disaster. A few days after the floods in mid-July, the head of the CDU Parliament Christian Baldorf The AfD’s request to establish an investigation committee in the Rhineland-Palatinate Parliament is still described as “ridiculous”. Well, at a press conference on Monday morning, he said, “This is not the time to get political capital from it.” The rescue work has not been completed, and the mud along the Ahr River has not yet been cleared. “That was the wrong time.”
