{
  "id": 17037005,
  "title": "Debt: Municipal debt rises by almost ten percent – per capita debt increases to almost 4900 euros",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/schulden-kommunale-schulden-steigen-um-knapp-zehn-prozent-pro-kopf",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-29T08:19:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/konjunktur/schulden-kommunale-schulden-steigen-um-knapp-zehn-prozent/100265834.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The deficit of the municipalities has continued to grow in 2025. The burden is distributed very differently regionally - in one federal state, the burden is an average of 6763 euros per person.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}