Comment on the budget agreement: The traffic light coalition becomes a standstill coalition

Comment on the budget agreement: The traffic light coalition becomes a standstill coalition

comment Status: 16.08.2024 17:35 The weeks of wrangling over the budget show that the federal government has apparently lost all will to cooperate. This coalition will no longer achieve anything. Will the traffic light coalition manage to produce a draft budget for the coming year in time? Hardly any other question has moved Berlin’s political … Read more

Weinstadt 2024 Investments: Growing Debt Worries Chamberlain

Weinstadt 2024 Investments: Growing Debt Worries Chamberlain

Despite a more than tense budget situation, Weinstadt is not holding back on investments in the coming year – the mountain of debt is growing significantly. This worries the chamberlain. Luitgard Schaber December 17, 2023 – 1:06 p.m Weinstadt is investing heavily in 2024 – a further 6.75 million euros alone will flow into the … Read more

Saxony-Anhalt: State parliament should declare emergency situation due to Corona special funds | MDR.DE

Saxony-Anhalt: State parliament should declare emergency situation due to Corona special funds |  MDR.DE

Only then will it be possible to finance around 60 measures and implement them in the coming years. The catalog of measures includes, among other things, the procurement of technology for the digitalization of all rescue equipment, large equipment for hospitals, digital assistance in schools and the extension of hardship aid. The measures were actually … Read more

The debt brake – a German fetish?

The debt brake – a German fetish?

France and Germany look at debt very differently. It starts with the language, explained Bruno Le Maire in an Arte documentary. In it, the French finance and economics minister said that the French term for debt (“la dette”) refers solely to financial debt. In Germany, on the other hand, the term has another level, that … Read more

Habeck cancels trip to climate conference due to budget crisis

Habeck cancels trip to climate conference due to budget crisis

Berlin (dpa) – Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) has canceled a trip to the World Climate Conference in Dubai and the region planned from Monday evening due to the budget crisis. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Berlin said Habeck’s presence in Berlin was necessary to further advance discussions on the 2024 … Read more

My husband gets sick too often. Tired of his constant sick leave and fears for his life

My husband gets sick too often.  Tired of his constant sick leave and fears for his life

When I first started dating Kostya, there were no doubts about his health. During the 2 years of communication, he got sick with Covid a couple of times. As soon as we got married, Kostya was literally knocked down by colds and other ailments. He and I will soon celebrate one year of marriage. During … Read more

Berlin’s head of government calls for reform of the debt brake

Berlin’s head of government calls for reform of the debt brake

Berlin (dpa) – In view of the current problems in the federal budget, Berlin’s governing mayor Kai Wegner is calling for a reform of the debt brake. “The #debt brake is a good idea in terms of sound finances. However, I think its current design is dangerous,” explained the CDU politician on Thursday on the … Read more

Budget verdict: What paths lead out of the billion dollar hole? – Germany – Waiblingen newspaper publisher

Budget verdict: What paths lead out of the billion dollar hole?  – Germany – Waiblingen newspaper publisher

Berlin (dpa) – After the Karlsruhe budget ruling, the federal government also sees far-reaching consequences for other reserves in the federal budget. The loans from the special fund for energy price caps “could no longer be used in 2023 according to the current legal situation,” Budget State Secretary Werner Gatzer informed the ministries. With the … Read more

Additional budgets under scrutiny: consequences of the budget ruling

Additional budgets under scrutiny: consequences of the budget ruling

Berlin (dpa) – After the Karlsruhe budget ruling, all of the federal government’s ancillary budgets are under scrutiny. One thing is certain so far: 60 billion euros for climate projects and the modernization of the economy have been lost. But may billions more not be available, for example for energy price caps? And what about … Read more