The leading non-statutory welfare organizations in Saxony have issued an urgent warning about the consequences of the government's planned austerity measures. The draft budget must be improved, as the cuts would jeopardize social stability, according to the Saxony League.
"If necessary investments in social cohesion are permanently omitted, the long-term follow-up costs in the form of illness, social division, unemployment or political radicalization are considerably higher," said League Managing Director Frank Schaffrath. Above all, no structural cuts should be made in the Ministry of Social Affairs that could cause irreversible damage.
