Overview
- The Haushaltsausschuss decided on Wednesday to allocate parts of a €250 million pot from the Sondervermögen Infrastruktur und Klimaneutralität to selected municipal swimming‑pool projects.
- Saxony will receive €8.54 million for three projects including €5.04 million for Leipzig’s Schwimmhalle West and €2.5 million for Dresden‑Klotzsche.
- Schleswig‑Holstein won €5.9 million for eight pools with payments such as €1.62 million for Grömitz and about €1.24 million for Lauenburg.
- The program was heavily oversubscribed: 942 applications asking for about €3.2 billion were submitted to the Bundesinstitut für Bau, leaving most requests unfunded.
- Local MPs welcomed constituency awards but opposition figures and municipal leaders warned the small fund will not close the renovation backlog and urged a substantial, ongoing increase in federal support to secure energy upgrades and keep swimming lessons and local facilities running.