focus on 2/18/2011
The federal threat of a funding scandal. MPs from various parties intended for information "Süddeutsche Zeitung of Germany's leading casinos group, which received Gauselmann AG, donations. Accordingly flowed since 1990 covered more than one million euros to the parties.
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SZ from 02/18/2011
manager of Germany's largest vending machine manufacturers were paying more than a million € in Union, SPD, FDP and Greens.
member of parliament attended by hundreds of checks against information-SZ. The group tried in this way to prevent strict requirements for controversial casinos.
Gauselmann accuses the provinces to seek a monopoly in their own games of chance such as lotteries and casinos and the gambling halls to fight with "brutal violence". However, he was defending itself.
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Gauselmann: Political Contributions clean and transparent Espelkamp. Company founder Paul Gauselmann, who for thirty years, Chairman of the Federation of German Industry, sees himself through the set up in the Süddeutsche Zeitung claims attack unjustified - especially because he just through his policy initiatives in the first instance for Interests of the industry with over 70,000 employees fight. Paul Gauselmann the industry interest is paramount, and as an entrepreneur, he had at best only "his record" cut off from the industry success.
to the claims of the Süddeutsche Zeitung takes the group Gauselmann stated:
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported today in great presentation of allegedly "dubious" political contributions of entrepreneurs Gauselmann family and senior staff of the group Gauselmann. A closer examination of the allegations and suspicions have no choice.
The donation activities never took place hidden, but openly and comprehensible. The donation checks of executives were therefore always sent with a covering letter of the group to the politicians. For the parties was thus always clear that the donor is active in the amusement industry. Neither the executives nor the business family have something to hide. At any time, all operations were fully transparent and in line with the provisions of the Political Parties Act. The amount of the donation is usually in the context of tax deductions and were therefore not notifiable.
The article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung urges the impression as if the donations the parties have been constrained to take political influence. Exactly the opposite is the case. The company and the entrepreneur Gauselmann, who has been thirty years, also chairman of the Federation of German Industry to achieve, current donation requests from parties and politicians of all stripes. If it was possible, was responded to those requests. If this be positive civic engagement is now seen in a bad light, it seems logical that this is related to the discussion of the state gambling monopoly of the countries that in part to tend to, seems to incorporate the regulated under federal law commercial game also to do so, "to create circumstances in Switzerland.
In the reporting the Süddeutsche Zeitung is given the impression as if the company and its senior executive of millions trying to take over the channel of political contributions influence policy. The reality is different. In 2010, the family of entrepreneurs and senior staff donated a total sum of € 80,000 - and indeed distributed in 26 separate amounts, the CDU / CSU, the SPD, the FDP and the Greens. The alleged millions arises only when one expects all together donations from the last two decades. Alone, considering the amount of donations in detail, it is clear that the donations were not likely to take political influence. Donations are consisted of positive gestures to illustrate how socio-political commitment should be. Nothing more. The political contributions of the last twenty years correspond to the sum of what the group Gauselmann spends year after year for their cultural and social engagement.
Gauselmann Paul says: "Play needs freedom as we know from our past in the East, but also in the West is always curtailed freedom in danger of being right or left ideologues who needs the freedom to play.. or - as we - in close games the statutory framework for commercial offer, should strengthen the liberal forces in Germany, nothing else. have we done with our donations. We have supported politicians and parties at the federal and state level in their election campaigns symbolically and with many figures and have thus helping to safeguard our free democratic system in Germany made "
source. Gauselmann AG
New OZ: Comment .. at parties / Donations / gambling
Osnabrück (ots) - uneasy
gambling can be addictive is true for the arcade in the station district as well as for the casino in the park What distinguishes the two is, especially this: The man behind the casino a state, behind the arcade to a private operator. And the state has the contest for gambling millions of the better cards.
That arcade leader Gauselmann therefore tried to take in the political process should not be surprising. Rather, the cleverness with which the company will realize this, without being previously noticed as a sponsor of parties. The boss "asks" its well-paid senior employees to donate to the reasonable limits for tax every year several thousand € to those parties in the federal government or a say in land laws on gambling industry. That sounds - unless the money comes from the company itself, and no pressure is built up, legitimate, after all, is what Gauselmann also the Jobs of the leadership. An uneasy feeling arises but nevertheless, because no one knows whether the political contributions of Gauselmann staff is truly voluntary. to bag the many small donations, which together produce one million euros to ensure that the parties had not been a problem, although the origin was apparently clear to them. Transparency preach and live, these are obviously two very different things.
SOURCE: New Digital Press Osnabrück newspaper
Gauselmann: Yes, we have donated Hoffmeister: "The company and the entrepreneur Gauselmann, who for 30 years, Chairman of the Association of German Vending industry is constantly achieving donation requests by parties and politicians of all stripes, "I wish this one -". Added a very limited extent "- met and excluding only the anti-democratic parties to the left and right. Hoffmeister suspects behind the publication of a campaign against private gambling. particular tried the provinces, the regulated under federal law to incorporate
commercial game itself - as in Switzerland, where private gambling machines are now banned.
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