Stock Photo - 14 October 2022, Thuringia, Erfurt: Mario Voigt, head of the CDU parliamentary group, speaks in the plenary hall of the Thuringian state parliament, with Heike Taubert (SPD), Thuringian Minister of Finance, and Georg Maier (SPD), Thuringian Minister of the Interior and Municipal Affairs, behind him. In a special session, the establishment of an energy aid fund financed from state funds is to be decided. In the so-called special fund outside the state budget, a total of 407 million euros could then be made available this year, primarily for companies, but also associations and private households that are suffering particularly from the massive increase in energy costs. Photo: Martin Schutt/dpa. - Erfurt/Thuringia/Germany