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Berlin (dpa) - The German Association of Towns and Municipalities and the real estate industry in Germany are calling for help for retailers to prevent inner cities from becoming extinct if the corona requirements are tightened.
A hard lockdown is now inevitable, said the chief executive of the German Association of Cities and Towns, Gerd Landsberg, the German press agency in Berlin.
“However, we now need clear financial support from the federal and state governments for the businesses affected, which are no longer in the Christmas business.
If this does not succeed, we will no longer recognize our inner cities in the coming year. "
The real estate industry is also warning that cities will lose their familiar face.
"Due to the upcoming lockdown, retail and hotels are increasingly disappearing from inner cities without being responsible for the hotspots of the pandemic," said Andreas Mattner, President of the Central Real Estate Committee, the German Press Agency.
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The companies could no longer cope with sales losses in retail alone of up to one billion euros per day in the main business of the year.
Company and job losses among tenants and landlords are the result.
For every day lost in sales, the same compensation rules should apply as for the catering trade.
On this Sunday, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Ministers want to advise on a lockdown in view of the increasing number of corona infections.
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