Overview

• The Senate's draft double budget no longer includes the previously pledged funds for 2024–25, according to Green parliamentary leader Bettina Jarasch.
• A 2023 security summit earmarked €30 million for additional social offers, homeless shelters and Ordnungsämter focused on Görlitzer Park and Leopoldplatz.
• Jarasch accuses Governing Mayor Kai Wegner of abandoning the broader package and says the measures will end once a fence stands by the end of the year.
• Mitte district mayor Stefanie Remlinger supports restoring the funding, citing successful results at Leopoldplatz from social interventions coordinated with police.
• The fence around Görlitzer Park remains a central element of the Senate’s safety plan for an area described as a crime hotspot in Kreuzberg.