Overview
- Thuringia’s Left, SPD and Greens condemned the cancellation, with Environment Minister Carsten Schneider urging reversal or compensation for the Erfurt site.
- The issue will go before the Thuringian parliament’s science committee after opposition leaders demanded transparency on the decision.
- Minister Dorothee Bär framed DATI as an unimplemented project of the previous government and said insights from its groundwork will feed into other transfer measures.
- Erfurt had been selected for the agency’s headquarters in the planned ICE-City district after prevailing over 68 competing locations.
- Local officials and development leaders called the move a setback for East Germany and asked Berlin for concrete replacement programs or financial offsets.