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German government faces budget crisis

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German government faces budget crisis

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German government faces budget crisis – DW – 11/20/2023
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The German government is at a breaking point over a 60 billion euro ($65.3 billion) hole in its budget. That’s because the Constitutional Court ruled a financial maneuver on climate mitigation policies illegal.
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    No worries, we’ll solve the issue by cutting the budget for bicycle infrastructure in half, saving 300 million.
    While spending a record amount of 13 billion on Autobahn projects, citing “overwhelming public interest” (which removes the requirement for an environmental impact assessment).

    This will predictably lead to the traffic sector missing its CO2 budget target, but we’re fixing that by getting rid of binding sector-specific CO2 targets altogether.

    https://www.manager-magazin.de/politik/deutschland/verkehr-und-klima-im-bundeshaushalt-milliarden-fuer-autobahnen-sparkurs-fuers-fahrrad-a-e00d288e-29b6-41ea-9c69-58e8b723c333

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      While I agree with the sentiment behind your comment, every big infrastructure project has to have an EIA and so do Autobahn projects. Very simply put, the argument „overwhelming public opinion“ can be used to build a project in spite of its negative environmental consequences.

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        *can‘t

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