After a long struggle, the leaders of the coalition made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP have found a solution to the budget crisis.
After the agreement in the traffic light government’s budget crisis, politicians and various associations commented. An overview.
“We don’t like doing them, of course, but they are necessary so that we can get there with the money we have available.”
(Chancellor Olaf Scholz, SPD, on cuts and savings to implement the budget ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court.)
“It’s running out anyway, but we’ll do it sooner.”
(Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Green, announces that the funding for the purchase of electric cars will expire earlier than planned.)
“You are endangering the last remnants of your reputation and your authority at home and abroad.”
(CDU party leader Friedrich Merz about Chancellor Scholz after the budget agreement.)
“You are not the solution to the budget problem, you are the budget chaos per se.”
(CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt about the traffic light government.)
“Many departments are making their own contributions, for example the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Ministry of Labor. What is important, however, is that there will be no reduction in social standards.”
(Finance Minister Christian Lindner, FDP, on the savings for the 2024 budget.)
“If both agricultural diesel subsidies and vehicle tax exemptions are canceled, this will be the case. I think that is problematic.”
(Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, Green Party, warns against putting a disproportionate burden on agriculture.)
“Mr. Chancellor, if you don’t do this, then next year will begin just as chaotically as the year 2023 ends.”
(CDU party leader Friedrich Merz calls on Chancellor Scholz to ask the Bundestag a vote of confidence about the budget agreement.)
“This budget is not intended to make Germany stronger, it is only intended to keep the traffic lights in power, that was your motivation when you agreed.”
(CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt on the traffic light government’s budget agreement.)
“The good news: a decision has been made and all those politically responsible have made compromises. Any non-decision would have been even worse for Germany as a business location and its jobs. However, sustainable structural reforms have been postponed again.”
(Employer President Rainer Dulger on the budget agreement.)
“We are vigorously driving forward the climate-neutral transformation of our country. We are strengthening social cohesion. And we are standing closely with Ukraine in its defense fight against Russia.”
(Chancellor Olaf Scholz, SPD, on the central goals of the traffic light government.)
“We won’t let you get away with this trick.”
(CDU party leader Friedrich Merz on the possibility that the traffic light government will again announce an emergency situation in view of the situation in Ukraine and thus suspend the debt brake.)
“The federal government hasn’t said enough concrete things about savings today. But saving 1.5 billion euros in social spending is not the right signal.”
(The president of the social association VdK, Verena Bentele, about the announced cuts in the social sector.)
Source: Stern
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