Kreuzberg: Burning barricades were built near Kottbusser Damm Photo: Spreepicture
From BZ/dpa
After the riots on New Year’s Eve in Berlin and the attacks on the police and firefighters, the CSU is demanding financial consequences for the SPD-led state.
According to the will of CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt, Berlin should receive less money from the financial pot of the federal states.
“The state financial equalization creates significant misguided incentives and ensures that inefficiency and mismanagement are financially rewarded, as in Berlin,” Dobrindt told BILD.
“Anyone who does not do business in a solid manner and who repeatedly fails when it comes to security, administration and electoral organization should have to accept cutbacks in the financial equalization of the federal states in the future.”
Bavaria is one of the donors when it comes to balancing the financial strength of the federal states, while Berlin was the main beneficiary in 2021, receiving surcharges of 3.6 billion euros.
In Berlin, the election for the House of Representatives is to be repeated on February 12, after the state constitutional court declared the September 2021 election invalid due to many glitches and “serious systemic deficiencies”. Prime Minister Franziska Giffey is back for the SPD.