‘No, Scholz, You Can’t Use Leftover Pandemic Money in Your Climate Alarmist Policies’: German Constitutional Court
The climate alarmist policies and the pandemic fear-mongering measures have a lot in common. Maybe they deserved to be pictured together in some ‘book of imaginary threats’.
In Germany they tried to take this parallelism too far, causing the Constitutional Court to step in to block the government from using leftover ‘pandemic’ money in its Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF).
In doing so, the court may have just salvaged the abused German ‘debit brake’ rules.
Olaf Scholz and his team have had to freeze ‘major spending pledges focused on green initiatives and industry support’, as the court ruling blew a 60 billion euro ($65 billion) hole in its finances.
Reuters reported:
“The decision threw into disarray budget negotiations taking place this week within Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way ruling coalition,