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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - In the committee of inquiry into the affair about the financing of the Expo pavilion, the Minister of Education and CDU top candidate for the state elections, Susanne Eisenmann, will be questioned as a witness this Friday.
She was invited at the request of the opposition FDP and SPD.
Eisenmann is said to have campaigned for the project.
She is said to have been informed, among other things, by the press spokesman of the then lead chamber of engineers, Pablo Dahl.
Eisenmann is his stepmother.
The background to the affair is the question of how the country became a contractual partner of the Expo organizers in Dubai.
The project company, which includes the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Engineers, the Freiburg Exhibition Center and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization, wanted to finance the pavilion entirely with the help of companies.
She had declared it as a project “from business for business”.
But because sponsors withdrew their commitments, the country stepped in.
The costs for the project, i.e. for the construction and operation of the pavilion and for participation in the Expo, are now expected to be 15 million euros.
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After Eisenmann's interrogation, Minister of Economic Affairs Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (CDU) is to be heard again.
When she was first interviewed, she had admitted mistakes made by her department, but had no personal responsibility.
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