The press as a ball between small and large chamber

 The National Council has now agreed with the Council of States on press subsidies. The Confederation will now only reduce postal rates for regional and local newspapers and for smaller member press. The National Council agrees to support only regional and local newspapers. However, it would like to use CHF 60 million instead of CHF 30 million for indirect press subsidies. With this decision, the National Council has dropped the decision made a week ago, which would have granted preferential prices to all newspapers. As the SDA writes in a press release, the National Council has adapted to the concept of the Council of States, which did not want a watering can for large publishers. According to this decision, only regional and local newspapers with a circulation of up to 40,000 and member papers of non-profit organizations with a circulation of up to 300,000 can benefit from the postal tax reduction.
The only area in which the National Council did not accommodate the small chamber was the amount of federal aid. It doubled this from CHF 20 million to CHF 40 million for the regional and local press and from CHF 10 million to CHF 20 million for the member press.
These changes will now go back to the Council of States. If the Council of States sticks to its concept, an agreement conference will be required.