The badly battered gastronomy and closed businesses have to prepare for the next setback in the coronavirus pandemic in Germany.
The federal government wants to massively cut and clearly limit the previous Covid-19 aid from January.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: In the
Lockdown Light
and the
second Corona wave
*
, the
restaurants
, leisure facilities and other businesses will
remain
closed.
So far, the
federal government has
secured
grants
from Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
*
amounting to 75 percent of the previous year's sales.
The
Corona
* -Hilfen
be loud
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD)
but evaporated from January - although the
lockdown Light
takes to 10 January at least.
Massive effects on the
hospitality industry
.
Munich / Berlin -
Coronavirus
*.
Covid-19 *
.
These terms cause
huge frustration
in
gastronomy in Germany
.
For the second time, restaurants, inns, bars and pubs have to
close for weeks
due to the
pandemic
.
In addition, closed hotels without guests prevented cosmetic studios without sales and leisure facilities, which are
economically struggling for survival
due to the consequences of the
lockdown
.
The
federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) *
wanted to
compensate them
all
.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Corona aid is reduced to fixed costs
As November aid and December aid, there should be grants amounting to 75 percent of the comparable sales from 2019.
In many places, however, lamentations could be heard that funds had not been paid at all or had only been paid late.
While the landlord fights for the jobs of his cooks and waiters, the beautician fights not to have to close her studio.
Now there is the next setback for all of them: The
Corona *
aid
for affected companies will be evaporated from January.
Then no longer lost sales, but only fixed costs for rent and staff will be reimbursed.
Coronavirus crisis in Germany: "Maximum amount of funding per month increased to 200,000 euros"
"At the beginning of the
lockdown
, we decided to provide generous and unbureaucratic assistance to support the sectors that are particularly
affected
by the
Corona measures
and that are based on sales," said
Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) to
the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
:
“These regulations expire at the end of the year.” From January, “
Bridging
Aid
III
, which extends and supplements our existing offers of assistance and provides separate regulations for self-employed people”
, will apply instead
.
According to the
Federal Ministry of Finance
, bridging aid III is valid until the end of June 2021. “The maximum amount of funding per month will be increased to 200,000 euros,” the ministry said.
But: In some cases, sharp drops in sales due to the
lockdown
are apparently no longer included in the aid.
(pm)
* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
