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The BlueLink.info newsroom is enhanced and expanded regionally during 2016 – 2018 as part of the BlueLink Newsroom Project, implemented the BlueLink Foundation and the Heinrich Boell Foundation of Brandenburg, with the financial support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU (German Federal Environmental Foundation).
DBU is one of Europe’s largest foundations and promotes innovative and exemplary environmental projects. The DBU was established in 1990, subject to a law passed by the German Parliament on initiative of the then Finance Minister Dr. Theo Waigel: to use the amount of € 1.3 billion from privatising the former steel group Salzgitter AG for an environmental foundation. The income from its assets is used for the promotional activities.