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Berlin (dpa / bb) - In view of the slow disbursement of corona aid for companies in lockdown, Berlin's Senator for Economic Affairs Ramona Pop wants to get the banks on board.
She wants to approach the house banks so that these companies can provide bridging loans in an emergency, said the Green politician on Monday in the Chamber of Deputies Economic Committee.
The aim is to bridge the time before the actual aid payments come from the federal government.
Pop spoke of an attempt to organize "bridging for the bridging aid".
Many companies are increasingly in a mess in the lockdown because aid funds promised by the federal government - so-called bridging aid - are only flowing slowly for November and December.
Improvement was promised.
According to Pop, however, only a third of the November aid was paid out to applicants in Berlin, specifically 130 million euros out of around 350 million euros.
Pop pointed out that she found this situation unacceptable.
"We must finally act now," she demanded to the federal government.
At the same time, she explained that the country could not simply accelerate the payment, for example by making its own advance payments.
This is already technically and hardly possible due to the lack of application data.
The state of Berlin could not solve the problems of the federal government.
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SPD parliamentary group vice-president Jörg Stroedter called Pop's banking plan absurd.
"That is no solution at all," he said in the committee.
«The banks give money where there is already money.
Where there are problems, the banks give no money. "
The only solution is pre-financing of aid payments by the state.
It is about many existences, Berlin is heading for a large wave of bankruptcies.
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