Household - Green Party leader Nouripour: Ahrtal aid is safe
According to Green Party leader Omid Nouripour, flood victim aid for the Ahr Valley is secure despite the budget crisis. "It is urgently necessary that the money continues to flow to those who have suffered damage in the Ahr Valley after the end of the year," Nouripour told the German Press Agency in Berlin on Thursday.
The German government wants to examine whether it is possible to suspend the debt brake for the 2.7 billion euros in flood aid for victims of the flood disaster in the Ahr valley. The debt brake could also be suspended later in the year - if significantly more money is needed to support Ukraine than is currently foreseeable.
Nouripour said that he assumed that the CDU would not refuse to take this step either. "We are talking about the fact that people's houses have been washed away and they have rightly been promised money for reconstruction. This has been slow, sometimes shameful, slow." There is no deadline at the end of the year by which everything has to be rebuilt, emphasized the Green politician. "If the money is still needed after that - and a significant amount has not yet flowed out, partly because there is a lack of people on the craftsmen's market - then people should not suffer as a result. Nobody can really understand that."
On the controversial issue of revising the debt brake within the traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP, Nouripour said: "The reform is needed. We are deeply convinced of this. It needs investment opportunities, especially after all the modernization backlogs of recent years and especially after all the crises that are currently piling up." Significantly more money needs to be spent on modernizing the country. However, this would require a change to the constitution, which would require a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag. However, the CDU is saying "very clearly" that they do not want to tackle this. "I'm pretty sure that the CDU would talk about it differently if they were in government, but until then it's not on the table."
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- The budget crisis in Germany could potentially impact the finances allocated for flood aid in the Ahr valley, as the Federal Government considers suspending the debt brake for the 2.7 billion euros.
- Green Party leader Omid Nouripour highlights the urgent need for continued financial support for victims affected by the flood disaster in the Ahr valley, past the end of the year.
- Despite the ongoing budget crisis, Nouripour expresses confidence that the CDU would not refuse to suspend the debt brake for flood aid, seeing as it involves rebuilding homes washed away by the floods.
- The German Press Agency reported that Nouripour criticized the sluggish process of providing aid to flood victims in the Ahr valley, citing delays and instances where the pace of reconstruction has been slow and shameful.
- Nouripour emphasized that the situation in the Ahr valley also highlights the need for the reform of the debt brake within the coalition government, arguing that additional funding is necessary for modernizing Germany and tackling crisis-related backlogs.
- The CDU, however, has expressed opposition to changing the constitution, which is necessary for altering the debt brake, stating that they do not wish to tackle this issue for the time being.
Source: www.stern.de
