European blood
11-29-2011, 12:55 PM
BERLIN (JTA) -- Germany will double its funding to the Central Council of Jews in Germany to about $13 millon.
The decision, which broke last week in the mainstream news before being publicly announced, follows negotiations that began a year ago with the election of Dieter Graumann, a businessman based in Frankfurt, to head the council.
The German federal government will raise its allocation to the Central Council to 10 million euro, or about $13 million, from about 5 million euro, or $6.7 million.
The contract is reportedly to be signed in the coming days. Graumann confirmed the allocation in an interview Saturday with Domradio, a Catholic radio news service.
Speaking with young Jews at a youth congress in Weimar over the weekend, Graumann, 61, said he hopes especially to use the new funding to help the younger generation. He said that despite Europe's difficult economic climate, the timing was evidently right -- with the current government of Chancellor Angela Merkel still in power -- to ask for additional help.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/11/28/3090448/german-government-pledges-13-million-to-jewish-community
The decision, which broke last week in the mainstream news before being publicly announced, follows negotiations that began a year ago with the election of Dieter Graumann, a businessman based in Frankfurt, to head the council.
The German federal government will raise its allocation to the Central Council to 10 million euro, or about $13 million, from about 5 million euro, or $6.7 million.
The contract is reportedly to be signed in the coming days. Graumann confirmed the allocation in an interview Saturday with Domradio, a Catholic radio news service.
Speaking with young Jews at a youth congress in Weimar over the weekend, Graumann, 61, said he hopes especially to use the new funding to help the younger generation. He said that despite Europe's difficult economic climate, the timing was evidently right -- with the current government of Chancellor Angela Merkel still in power -- to ask for additional help.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/11/28/3090448/german-government-pledges-13-million-to-jewish-community