Berlin/Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann sees the agreements between the federal and state governments as an important decision for the south-west. “I’m glad that we finally got clarity today about the urgently needed relief for people and companies in the country,” said the Green politician on Wednesday after a meeting of the prime ministers with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) in Berlin . Both sides would have moved towards each other, said Kretschmann. “Now it’s a matter of implementing the resolutions quickly and letting them take effect.”
The federal and state governments had agreed that the states would co-finance some of the relief measures in the course of the energy crisis as a result of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, but in return would also receive more money from the federal government for local transport and the accommodation of refugees. The relief is about the expansion of housing benefit. The design of the planned energy price brake was also discussed. “We link arms and we solve our country’s problems together,” said Chancellor Scholz after the meeting. The agreement on the financing of relief measures was prepared very carefully and then found quickly.
