The government has a financial hole of 60 billion euros. If you put hundreds of bills in a row, you could wrap the globe 220 times. A short cultural history of the billion.
This quickly passes your lips, and when you read it, no one stumbles anymore: the federal government is missing 60 billion euros, which it had actually already budgeted for. And the finance minister sees a “need for action” of 17 billion euros for the 2024 budget. Deutsche Bahn had a debt of 28 billion euros in 2022. Anyone who is a little older cringe every time. Billion, just saying.