According to Finance Minister Lindner, the 2025 budget must be renegotiated. According to expert reports, he sees a gap of five billion euros. However, FDP parliamentary group leader Dürr does not see a major problem.
In the renewed budget dispute within the traffic light coalition, FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr stressed that it was only a small financial hole. “The basic outlines of the budget are in place,” Dürr said on Deutschlandfunk. At 480 billion euros, the budget is much larger than the five billion euro gap.
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) estimated the financing gap on Sunday at around five billion euros. This is because expert opinions see constitutional risks in some of the federal government’s plans, for example the idea of using the remaining 4.9 billion euros from the KfW development bank for the gas price caps for other purposes in the budget. The minister announced corresponding renegotiations of the budget.
The coalition partners criticized this. Green Party deputy Andreas Audretsch accused Lindner of unilaterally terminating a joint agreement. SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert also criticized Linder for publishing the results of the reports while Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was on vacation, and spoke of “self-promotion.”
Dürr also rejected this. When Scholz, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) and Lindner presented the budget, it was said publicly that there were requests for audits to the Finance Ministry. “And transparency requires that we also inform about the results of these requests for audits,” said the FDP parliamentary group leader.
Source: Stern
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