Overview

• The 2025 edition catalogs 100 alleged instances of wasteful public spending, including 16 cases in North Rhine-Westphalia and nine in Bavaria.
• In NRW, Bochum’s nearly €20 million sports hall needed a €48,000 redesign after wall patterns caused dizziness, while a Bonn playground fix added €1,000 for a fence and €5,000 for a new path.
• The group faults NRW’s split of LANUV into LAVE and LANUK, citing projected extra administrative costs of €1.4 million for 2025.
• In Bavaria, the Augsburg State Theater renovation is now feared to top €600 million, and Munich’s new criminal justice center is estimated at about €400 million.
• Ochsenfurt had to relocate a bike shelter for €23,747.34 after new buses could not turn in a wendeschleife, and other flagged schemes include the Frankenwald bridges, whose projected costs climbed from €12 million to €42.1 million.