Sharp criticism of the financial management of the federal and state governments comes from the authority in Bonn.
(Photo: IMAGO/Dominik Bund)
Berlin The Federal Court of Auditors has identified a major imbalance in the financial relationships between the federal and state governments. The federal states received more and more money from Berlin. If this development were to continue, the federal government would be in danger of becoming incapable of acting – and breaking the constitution, the auditors explain in a report available to the Handelsblatt.
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) and the budget politicians in the German Bundestag should feel confirmed in their view. You have long criticized the fact that the federal government has to cede more and more money to the states and that their own financial leeway is becoming ever narrower.
The budget politicians in the Bundestag had therefore asked the Federal Court of Auditors to compare the financial situation of the federal and state governments. And indeed, the 30-page report reveals massive shifts in federal financial flows. “The overall picture shows an increasing imbalance,” writes the Federal Audit Office. In favor of the federal states and at the expense of the federal government:
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