SecondCountries hope to decide on Tuesday to share the financial burden caused by the floods. This should apply to direct assistance and reconstruction assistance. The federal government hopes to “preliminarily” contribute 400 million euros to the emergency assistance approved by the federal states. This comes from the draft resolution of the meeting between the Prime Minister and Prime Minister Angela Merkel (CDU) tomorrow, Tuesday. “There is no upper limit on the total number,” it said.
For the reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, the “Development Assistance 2021” fund will be established as a federal special fund. The draft resolution has not yet stated how much money has been designated for this purpose. The reconstruction measures in the federal states have not yet been quantified. In the draft, it only states “X billion euros”. The participation of the entire state will be achieved through “adjusting the vertical distribution of sales tax revenue for 20 years”. The Federal Cabinet hopes to pass the necessary legal provisions on financial assistance on August 18.
As remedial measures are urgently needed, regulations and administrative agreements will be drafted “immediately.” In order to speed up the processing speed, an exception should be made to the principle of prior approval of measures. According to the draft resolution, the federal government hopes to waive the reimbursement of expenses incurred by the use of the federal army.
The federal and state governments have also decided to take measures to improve the decentralized alert to the population in the event of a disaster at the Prime Minister’s Conference (MPK) on Tuesday. According to the draft resolution, this includes in particular the federal siren funding program. By 2023, a total of up to 88 million euros will be provided to the federal states. The federal government is currently drafting a bill on a cellular broadcasting system that will send warnings via text messages on mobile phones.
Laschet estimates that the cost will be as high as 30 billion euros
In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, the July floods in North Rhine-Westphalia caused 13 billion euros in property damage.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.”
