Hesse in the household chaos: black and red fights for survival!

Hesse in the household chaos: black and red fights for survival!

In the Hessian state parliament, a bitter dispute is raging over the first budget of the black and red coalition for 2025. In the middle of a pressing economic crisis and threatening tax failures, Finance Minister Alexander Lorz (CDU) presents a figure, the expenditure of around 38 billion euros and a new debt of 670 million euros, as hessenschau.de reported. The coalition propagates a fundamental optimism, while the opposition criticizes budget planning as a "homemade" problem and denounces the lessons from the past and the structural crisis.

painful cuts and protests

The opposition sees an inadequate reaction to the current challenges in the planned savings. While the government emphasizes that incisions would not be radical, the delay of salary increases for civil servants is denounced as a "broken word". Around 100 civil servants protested the cuts on the edge of the session, which further fueled the tensions. Contrary to the promise, the intended increase in civil servants is put up by around ten percent, which is particularly severe criticism, as well as

While the government under the current economic conditions, the focus is on future -oriented projects, such as the “Hessengeld” for the promotion of residential property, which focuses on, opposition leaders complain about supposed inefficiency and ideological shortages in the field of climate protection. For the opposition - especially the Greens and the FDP - the budget planning shows that the CDU and SPD are not willing to take faster and more effective measures to support the population and the civil servants in this critical phase. The next steps of the debate are now essentially pending, with a general debate that is scheduled for the next month. The budget will then be adopted in March.