Dresden in Finanzchaos: Double budget 2025/2026 before big questions!

Dresden in Finanzchaos: Double budget 2025/2026 before big questions!

Dresden. An uncertain game with the future! The city's financial officials face a huge challenge: they have to set up a double budget for 2025 and 2026 without really knowing what the coming years will bring. Energy prices, construction costs and the number of asylum seekers - everything is uncertain. In these turbulent times, precise planning is almost impossible, and the city could fall into a financial trap.

The traffic light coalition of the SPD, Greens and FDP imposed numerous burdens on the municipalities without providing the necessary financial support. Saxony also shows little willingness to bear the costs for important discounts such as the educational ticket. The question remains whether a new coalition, perhaps a "blackberry", can change this Situation. The income forecasts for Dresden are dark and the city has to save drastically. What has been shortened is difficult to restore.

a year of planning instead of a double household!

In this tense situation, you advocate a return to one -year budget planning. This could enable more realistic assumptions and prevent nasty surprises such as a 24 million euro household hole in personnel costs. The finance officers brought the financial officials to the bredouille. If you had only planned for one year, you could better adjust the increases. But now they have to look into the glass ball and stand there with empty hands.