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Passengers on a regional train in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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The federal states do not want to implement a follow-up offer for the 9-euro ticket without the federal government.
This is the result of a survey by SPIEGEL in the federal states.
"The federal government must commit itself to financing such a follow-up regulation for the 9-euro ticket," says Brandenburg's Transport Minister Guido Beermann (CDU).
»Whoever orders, pays.« Tarek Al-Wazir (Greens) from Hesse, on the other hand, is willing to add one euro from state funds to every euro spent by the federal government.
Lower Saxony's Transport Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) had previously spoken out in favor of offering a separate ticket with the five northern German states - should the federal government not make a nationwide offer.
However, Althusmann believes that the federal states cannot pay for such a project alone.
A connection solution should be available by the end of the year.
Other northern countries reject this: "Such an isolated solution does not lead to the goal because we would let the federal government do its duty," says a spokesman for the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Transport.
This is a conflict between the federal and state governments.
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) recently said that there could be no follow-up regulation for the 9-euro ticket and fuel discount.
The next time the federal and state governments want to discuss the topic is August 19th.
With the ticket, bus and train drivers can use local and regional transport nationwide for 9 euros per month.
The offer has been available since the beginning of June and will expire at the end of August.
There are numerous suggestions as to what could come after that, such as a 365-euro annual ticket or monthly tickets for 29 or 69 euros.
There were also isolated proposals to make public transport entirely free of charge.
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