Schäuble ventures on the highway privatization
| The Federal Ministry of Finance now presents the federal states with the receipt for the agreement in the monthly dispute over the new arrangement of the Länderfinanzgleichgleich. In this country, the countries had, in a rare unanimity, severed considerably more money than was willing to give.
16: 1 against the federal government, a country representative proudly said after the agreement a month ago. Schäuble also had to give in because Bavaria's Prime Minister and CSU boss Horst Seehofer had exerted massive pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel - and that can not be used in the camp.
But now the plans of the Ministry of Finance are available for what the Confederation is to receive in exchange for the billions of billions: namely, more rights to speak in joint projects with the countries. And it is clear now that parts of the bill, which has now been passed on to the other ministries for voting and which will be dealt with in the Federal Cabinet on 8 December, will create anger. With the countries, the coalition partner SPD and even within the Union. For Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) is not a part of Schäuble's plans.
Schäuble does not want a new authority
The future administration of the German motorways is likely to be a major conflict point, partly because the public interests are the largest. The long-distance roads are called federal motorways, but they are administered by the Länder.
As is known, the Ministry of Finance wants a concentration of competences in a society under the sovereignty of the Confederation. In the draft of the Ministry for the necessary changes to the Basic Law, the following is said: "The Confederation can use private law to carry out its tasks." The following sentence would be given to Schäubles: "The majority of the shares of this company remain with the Confederation." Most preferably.
The finance minister wants to win private donors to manage the motorways, for example funds. The streets themselves are to be fully owned by the state. A discussion like in the case of the rushed railway exchange and the endless debate, whether investors are allowed to get access to the rail network, is to be avoided in the Ministry of Finance as far as possible. To establish a company of private law for the motorways and then not to involve private investors, but does not make any sense, says the ministry.
The aim is to prevent the emergence of a new authority, which is thought to be celestialistic and plans and builds on the budget. Privatization of the so-called infrastructure company is not a short-term goal, but it must be an option. And in the Ministry of Finance you can even imagine putting more than half in the hands of private investors.
Fighting with the federal states threatens
Dobrindt does not want to be privatized, however, because he wants to keep as much influence on the motorways as possible. And in the Ministry of Economy with the head of the SPD and vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, this means: "The basic direction is clear and must be: neither a privatization of roads nor the Federal Highway Society."
The first resistance is also proving in the federal states. In Bavaria, for example, there is really no reason to say good-bye to their own, undisputedly successful highway administrations - apart from the agreements of the deal on the country finances. But in the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Federal Ministry of Finance said that the billions and the stronger powers of the federal government in certain areas were "an overall package. One thing does not go without the other. "
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