Parliament wants CHF 15 million for the 2025 European Football Championships
Published: Monday, Dec 9th 2024, 19:30
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Parliament wants Switzerland to support next year's European Women's Football Championship with CHF 15 million. After the Council of States, the National Council also voted in favor of a corresponding motion on Monday.
The large chamber adopted the motion of the Council of States' Committee for Science, Education and Culture (WBK-S) by 116 votes to 43 with 19 abstentions. The Council of States had already approved the motion in March.
The Federal Council must now set about implementing the Commission's motion. The amount requested is almost four times what the national government wanted to spend. In January, the Federal Council decided to support the European Championships to be held in Switzerland in summer 2025 with just CHF 4 million. One of the reasons it gave for this was the Confederation's strained financial situation.
The Federal Council's decision caused consternation among those affected. Critics argued that four million francs was just one twentieth of the 80 million francs that the Confederation had spent on the 2008 European Men's Football Championship in Switzerland and Austria.
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