First Corona, then swine fever, now the Ukraine war. Brandenburg’s red-black-green coalition falls from one crisis to the next. But there is still the Tesla factory.
Nevertheless, head of state Dietmar Woidke (60, SPD) draws a positive balance. His deputies are more honest.
“A lot of things happened that we couldn’t have imagined at the beginning,” said Woidke about the series of crises. But then: “It sounds almost strange, but we are in the best development phase that Brandenburg has ever experienced.” Meaning: the start of the Tesla plant two years after the start of construction.
But the country took on just as much new debt as Tesla invested: five billion euros to deal with the pandemic – and still implement the election promises. New teachers, judges and police officers, railway lines, climate plan and care pact. “No project from the coalition agreement is buried. Everything will be followed up,” promised Woidke.
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Deputy Ursula Nonnemacher (64, Greens) promptly slowed him down: “Of course one or the other project has been postponed.” Too expensive.
Woidke’s other deputy Michael Stübgen (62, CDU) warns of tough budget negotiations: “The austerity requirements are brutal. We have to see what can be realized and to what extent.”
