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Bremen (dpa / lni) - The mountain of debt of the state of Bremen and the two municipalities of Bremen and Bremerhaven is growing by 40.27 euros per second.
By the end of the year, the debt level would add up to 22.85 billion euros, the Bremen board member of the taxpayers' association, Carl Kau, calculated on Thursday when the Bremen debt clock was changed.
The clock “ticks” slower than in the record year 2020, when it added 57.80 euros per second;
Nevertheless, the new debt in 2021 is higher than necessary.
“The Bremen Fund, which was ostensibly justified with the corona pandemic and financed entirely by debt, contains too many measures that have nothing to do with coping with the pandemic.
In the slipstream of the pandemic, the red-green-red majority alliance is lifting the debt brake in order to be able to finance general government tasks and costly political projects, ”criticized Kau.
Senator for Finance Dietmar Strehl (Greens) defended the Bremen Fund, which comprises around 1.2 billion euros.
"We will need this 1.2 billion."
It is also about the fact that Bremen as an industrial location will also look positive in comparison with other federal states in three to five years.
When and whether the debt clock, which has been ticking backwards since May 2006, remained open.
So far, this has only been the case once: in the pre-Corona year 2019.
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