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Ministry of Finance, this division of government offices costs taxpayers at least 8.6 million euros each year, for example in flight fares for officials' business trips. By July 2019, most political parties of Germany, including the Left Party, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Christian Democrats, were starting to agree to move all governmental institutions remaining in Bonn to Berlin, because ministers and civil servants were flying between the two cities about 230,000 times a year, which was considered too impractical, expensive and environmentally damaging. The distance of 500 kilometres between Bonn and Berlin was only travelable by train in 5.5 hours, so either the train connections had to be considerably upgraded, or Bonn abolished as the secondary capital.
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According to the government, around 37 percent of federal government positions were based in Bonn by the end of 2015. Some see this as a breach of the Berlin-Bonn Act because it was agreed that the majority of ministerial employees should work in Bonn rather than in Berlin. According to the Federal
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seeks to further strengthen the position of Bonn as Germany's second seat of government, as a seat of the United Nations and as a centre for international cooperation and sustainable development. However, talks between Bonn and the
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of 29 June 1994 providing for 1.437 billion Euros to be used between 1995 and 2004. This money was used to fund various compensation measures and concrete action plans like the foundation of the
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Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung and Bundesbaudirektion (merged in 2002 forming the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung which is exclusively seated in Bonn)
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moved to the capital and gave the city certain commitments regarding the preservation of Bonn as a location of politics. In addition, it awarded the city the unique title of the
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Act for the implementation of the enactment of the German Bundestag of 20 June 1991 for the completion of the German unity
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Gesetz zur Umsetzung des Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages vom 20. Juni 1991 zur Vollendung der Einheit Deutschlands
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Also, the Berlin/Bonn act is the foundation of the "Agreement regarding the compensation measures for the Bonn region"
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The act was implemented incrementally. The most important year was 1999, when the Bundestag moved to the
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of 3 October 1990. The Berlin/Bonn Act was enacted on 26 April 1994. The act's full official title is
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Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Kreditwesen and Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Versicherungswesen from Berlin
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The following are examples of federal facilities that moved to Bonn (in total: 22):
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and other German federal facilities to Bonn. The act was a consequence of the
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German minister: Corona shows no need to move ministries from Bonn to Berlin
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Vereinbarung über die Ausgleichsmaßnahmen für die Region Bonn
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Zentrale Auslands- und Fachvermittlung from Frankfurt am Main
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At the same time in 2019, Bonn, together with neighbouring
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Overview of the aided compensation projects at bonn.de
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Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung from
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