Lower Saxony CDU chief calls for €1 billion more for municipalities
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- Lower Saxony CDU leader Sebastian Lechner called for an additional €1 billion for municipalities, saying the state has €4.4 billion in fiscal room but passes on only €1.2 billion.
- He said the CDU would abolish the state’s 106 municipal funding programs and distribute the resulting €3.5 billion through the municipal financial equalization system.
Sebastian Lechner wants Lower Saxony to give its municipalities €1 billion more. The state CDU leader made the demand at a campaign event with Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Langenhagen near Hanover.
Lechner said Lower Saxony had €4.4 billion in financial room but passed only €1.2 billion on to municipalities. He argued that local authorities needed a larger share of the available funds.
The CDU also plans, according to Lechner, to fundamentally abolish the state’s 106 funding programs for municipalities. The €3.5 billion tied to those programs would instead flow directly through the municipal financial equalization system.
Local officials, Lechner said, knew better than the state government what they needed the money for.
The people responsible locally know better than the state government what they need the money for.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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