The interim solution becomes a permanent solution: the plans for a new government terminal at BER are off the table. The federal government argues with “considerable cost advantages”.
The federal government does not want to build a new government terminal at BER. The previous interim solution should instead become a permanent solution. This was announced by the Ministry of Finance on Friday on request. The “Bild am Sonntag” had previously reported about it.
“The basis of the decision is the cost comparison of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks on the question of ‘waiving or building a new protocol building’,” the ministry said. Accordingly, the “waiver of the new protocol building has significant cost advantages”.
The transitional building opened in October 2020. Since then it has served as a terminal for the federal government’s air traffic. The cost of constructing the building was around 70 million euros. According to previous estimates, the new government terminal would have cost a multiple of this sum – the “Tagesspiegel” reports that it is now more than half a billion euros.
In the past, the FDP had therefore repeatedly called for the construction of a new representative terminal to be abandoned. The Foreign Office in particular had stuck to the plans for a long time.
Broadcast: rbb24, October 28, 2022, 1:00 p.m