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Already 20 years in the planning, Berlin's new 4.3-billion euro ($5.61 billion) Willy Brandt International Airport has had to push back its opening from 2011 to June 2012, then to March 2013, then to October 2013 and now to 2014, a source familiar with the plans told Reuters on Sunday. The delays, caused by red tape and, latterly, problems with the fire-safety system, have turned the airport and its city into the butt of nationwide jokes. Authorities fear the latest hold-up could harm the global reputation of German engineering. Berlin's Tegel airport - one of three in the city that Willy Brandt is meant to replace - was built in just 90 days during the Cold War. Sixty years after that feat, the protracted struggle to open the airport has exposed the inefficiencies of a country weighed down by regulations and layers of bureaucracy. Construction only began in 2006 after a tortuous 15-year planning and approvals process for the air hub in the southeast corner of the city. Even though the airport is jointly owned by the federal government, Brandenburg state and Berlin, most of the blame for the debacle has fallen on Wowereit - once one of Germany's most popular leaders. 'WOWEREIT MUST GO' The Social Democrat, who chairs the airport supervisory board, is under fire over allegations he covered up news of the latest delay for the last three weeks, prompting calls for his resignation. "Wowereit has withheld information about new problems at the airport and he's a liability," said Ramona Pop, a leader of the opposition Greens in the city-state assembly. She said the assembly should vote him out. "He's harming Berlin's interests." The Greens' national co-leader, Juergen Trittin, intervened to tell Wowereit to step down: "It's over, Klaus." But Wowereit won a potentially vital lifeline from his own party on Monday. "Why should he resign? I can't see any reason for that," said the chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), Sigmar Gabriel. 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