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Franziska Giffey: The family minister is now promoting neo

2019-10-17T16:53:31.654Z


The program Exit helps neo-Nazis to exit the right scene. Recently, the funding of the program was uncertain. According to the Ministry of Family, a solution has now been found.



Family Minister Franziska Giffey (SPD) has announced that the financing of the exit program Exit is now secured. The Ministry of Family Affairs also intends to continue promoting the initiative in the "Living Democracy" program in 2020, the statement said.

The ministry had reached an agreement with Exit on a new strategic approach, which makes funding possible from next year. Exit founder Bernd Wagner confirmed this to SPIEGEL.

Exit is Germany's most well-known dropout organization for neo-Nazis. Since 2000, she claims to have helped 750 neo-Nazis leave the scene. Nevertheless, the financing of the dropout assistance was always uncertain - most recently for the coming year.

The federal program "Living Democracy" promotes civil society actors, but only those who have a "model character". This forces organizations to keep thinking of new approaches.

Financing for "Living Democracy" secured for the next year

That also played a role in promoting Exit. "I am pleased that we have now managed to find a way to continue supporting Exit's work," said Giffey. This was necessary because a permanent promotion of projects for democracy and against extremism is currently not possible.

For this reason, among other things, it calls for a democracy promotion law. "I am talking about this with Federal Interior Minister Seehofer," said Giffey. Exit founder Wagner said of the result: "We preserve what we have done so far and add to that a substantive approach". Talking to the ministry, they talked mainly about right-wing extremism and Islamism.

Because so many organizations were denied funding for the next funding period, the ministry and Giffey have been under criticism for weeks. In addition to the specifics of the promotion from 2021 also less money for "democracy live" is planned.

At least for the next year, however, the financing is secured - then, as in 2019, there will be a total of 115 million euros. A few weeks ago, Giffey had reached an agreement with finance minister Olaf Scholz.

Source: spiegel

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