Court of Auditors – NRW budget unconstitutional – politics

The State Audit Office has expressed serious constitutional reservations about the North Rhine-Westphalian state budgets for 2022 and 2023. “The State Audit Office regards both the borrowings in 2022 and their intended use for the crisis management reserve as unconstitutional.” This was determined by the independent control authority in a statement published on Friday. The North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Finance explained that the ministry would examine the statement intensively and take it seriously. Credit-financed reserves are fundamentally unconstitutional, criticizes the NRW Court of Auditors. In addition, the “shifting of credit funds” from the NRW rescue package into the 2023 budget violates the Basic Law and the state budget regulations.

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