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Bettina Jarasch, top candidate of the Greens in Berlin
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The desperate financial situation of the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Company (FBB) is increasingly dividing the red-red-green government alliance in Berlin.
While leading social democrats want to free the operator of the capital's airport BER from debts, the green top candidate for the House of Representatives elections, Bettina Jarasch, threatens to block already agreed, but not yet approved by parliament loans in the three-digit million range.
"I don't see parliamentary approval of further budget funds at the moment," the green front woman told SPIEGEL.
Jarasch calls for FBB to have a »cash drop and a special audit by independent experts as well as the development of a serious restructuring concept«.
Further subsidizing the FBB is "only politically responsible if all the information about the FBB's financial situation is finally on the table."
Only at the beginning of the week had FBB CFO Aletta von Massenbach, according to a report by the rbb, put the additional financial requirement at 1.9 billion euros by 2025.
The airport company's already critical financial situation was exacerbated by the pandemic, and BER Airport is currently making a loss of one million euros every day.
Without debt assumption by its shareholders, the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, as well as the federal government, the airport operator is threatened with bankruptcy.
Last week, FBB managing director Engelbert Lütke Daldrup announced that he would be vacating his post this autumn.
As his successor, Chief Financial Officer Massenbach is under discussion.
Green top candidate Jarasch, on the other hand, says: "We need a renovator from the outside." The order of the day is "not less, but more transparency and control in management."
The coalition politician is therefore calling for a “real new beginning, also in terms of personnel”.
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