By Andreas Rinke

BONN, Germany (Reuters) -Germany’s federal government will begin helping municipalities to pay down old debts from January 1, 2026, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday, two weeks before his government faces its first electoral test since taking office.

Merz made the pledge at the party conference of his Christian Democrats, or CDU, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia which is holding local elections on September 14, four months after his government came into power.

State and municipal leaders say the federal government has imposed extra welfare costs on municipalities without providing them with the necessary funds to finance them.

In NRW, Germany’s most populous state and a bellwether for national…

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More than 3,500 families in the Metro Atlanta area will see a total of $10 million in debt cleared this week — the financial reprieve is thanks to a coalition led by the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream.

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Hindusthan National Glass & Industries Ltd’s corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) has emerged as one of the most prolonged and controversial episodes in the history of the country’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), which came into existence in 2016 to offer a consolidated and time-bound process for the resolution of insolvency and bankruptcy cases.

Initiated on October 21, 2021, upon the application of DBS Bank under Section 7 of the IBC, the process has long overshot its statutory limit of 330 days. Nearly four years later, the case continues to languish in litigation, exposing serious weaknesses in the IBC’s implementation, the accountability of insolvency professionals, and the oversight mechanisms of regulators…