By Peter Heimann, Berlin © symbol photo: dpa
Friday, 06/10/2016
A recent study confirms that regional differences in Germany will be largely unchanged by 2020th
Even after the Solidarity Pact expires end of 2019, large parts of eastern Germany to rely on funding and assistance. This emerges from a recent report of the Institute for Financial and Regional Analyses (Gefra) Münster, which will be presented on Friday in Berlin.
key message of the study on a future all-German scheme to promote structurally weak regions, which was commissioned by the federal and state: The convergence of economic and living conditions in Germany come only “slowly” moving forward. “Can for the funding period from 2020, therefore, be assumed to be more or less unchanged regional situation.” An approximation exclusively on market-based processes was doing “very doubtful”.
A comparison of the structurally weak regions in West and East Germany revealed that a particularly large and particularly large number of very weak regions are in the east. Of the 138 substances classified as structurally weak regions in Germany are 62 percent in eastern Germany, although East Germany has only 30 percent of the area and 20 percent of the population of Germany. Even the economically strongest cities in Eastern Germany insufficient approach the strength structurally comparable cities in West Germany.
This situation applies “it should be noted, if the goal of the establishment of equal living conditions should not be questioned,” the Ostbeauftragte the federal government, Iris Gleicke (SPD), the SZ: “I see myself fully confirmed in my previous assessment we need after the expiry of the Solidarity Pact 2019 promotion of structurally weak regions in East and West Germany. Now we need to quickly provide clarity on how such an all-German regional aid should be designed after 2019 “.
In addition to the strong East-West divide, as the witness, but there was also in West Germany regions with low economic power and productivity that are hardly different from regions in the new countries. Therefore, they propose extending some still limited to the Eastern programs to promote innovation at all structurally weak areas in the western states.
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Under the terms of the existing tough competition balanced living conditions are never produced. This was true even for West Germany before reunification. Just this will persist for a long time between European countries the fundamental inequality. Where competition exists as a Basic Law, there will always be winners and losers and relentless struggle between them.
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What’s so surprising? It is all about competition. 1989 went to travel and bananas. They gave it to us. In the existing market economy but the East is nothing. Exceptions bestehtigen the rule. What does that whining?
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@Volker W .: It is probably the way you say it. But this results in a reason why it ultimately nothing could with the GDR are: it is the miesere piece of Germany: wide sandy deserts, Bodenschatz uranium only for Russians, Bodenschatz lignite pollutes the air, hardly steel industry, Barren soils for farmers. These embargoes and boycotts. And a single currency. Nevertheless, the people in this part of Germany had to solve (a VEB in each village), the housing question, allow education in school and university work for all organize. At the end of the companions were behind the pace of development in the world and threw the power to the road. Not because too many bananas preferring the Havel apple, but because the experiment German part state socialist character (state-owned economy) could not keep up.
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East Germany needs not only promoting, but especially right economic policies. Anyone who has squandered how things billion for authorities carousel (SAB forced relocation from DD to L) a Sachsen LB in Leipzig mismanaged billions amounts into bankruptcy with lack of supervision, to ensure the highest paid national parliamentarians, no plan for Saxony has a future need no promotion. It is finally also to the solidarity with the donor countries. Promoting eastern countries can not be done without clear requirements in the future. That’s when Greece etc. no different. Those who can not deny his own income to make a living, should the donors give a say. This is common practice worldwide. The next 25 years the money must be invested more meaningful than the last 25 years. Otherwise lags behind East forever.
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