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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The Court of Auditors has warned Hamburg's red-green Senate against the use of corona emergency loans outside of the time and content requirements.
"We see the danger that at this point the money will be used too far for things that are generally desirable but cannot be financed from emergency loans," said Philipp Haefner, Director of the Audit Office, on Monday at the presentation of the "advisory statement" his authority on the budget situation 2020/21.
So far there has been no evidence of this, as the Senate has not yet specified its plans and has not yet submitted any corresponding printed matter to the citizenship.
Nonetheless, the Court of Auditors has set up an “intensely flashing yellow warning lamp” at this point, stressed Häfner, referring to the planned expansion of bicycle traffic or the police IT from emergency loans.
The head of the authorities expressly did not criticize the total amount of corona-related new debt of around 8.5 billion euros from 2020 to 2024: “The actions of the Senate in relation to new debt in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic should not be criticized. »