AfD parliamentary group demands one percent of project costs
Berlin (hib/STO) – With a request for information, the AfD parliamentary group wants to find out about the extent to which the federal government and its authorities are awarding so-called “one percent orders” for art in public spaces. In a corresponding application (20/4771), the group refers to Section 2 of the Federal Cultural Property Protection Act, according to which one percent of the construction costs of federal buildings costing more than five million euros must be used for artistic design. The AfD wants to know which projects have been contracted since 2018 to implement this regulation and what the total volume of the orders awarded was. In addition, the deputies ask for a list of all projects for which orders were not awarded due to budget constraints. They also want to know how the federal government and its agencies ensure that “the artistic design of buildings is given sufficient consideration in the planning and implementation phases”. In the preamble to the application, the AfD group complains that “public finances are increasingly strained and the temptation is great to save in the wrong places”. However, it is not permissible “to use the embezzlement of art in public spaces as a tool in budgetary policy”.
The request for information is on the Bundestag’s agenda for Thursday.
AfD-Fraktion fragt nach einem Prozent von Projektkosten
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