Press funding: The National Council gives the ball back
For the National Council, the model for indirect press subsidies via postal taxes is irrevocable. In its opinion, all subscribed newspapers should benefit from reduced postal taxes and not just the smaller papers, as the Council of States would like.
The National Council wants all subscription newspapers to benefit from the reduced postal rates and not just the smaller ones, as demanded by the Council of States. The Council stuck to its model by 97 votes to 67, as the SDA news agency writes in a report. The National Council only agreed to the Council of States' model in terms of the time limit, granting aid until 2011 at the latest instead of 2014. The bill will now go back to the Council of States. In order for it to come into force at the beginning of 2008, it still needs to be amended during the current session
