The Federal Finance Minister is demanding renegotiations for the 2025 budget. This is causing a lot of controversy within the traffic light coalition. The CSU is demanding a decisive word from the Chancellor.
Because of the latest dispute in the traffic light coalition over the federal budget, the CSU believes that Chancellor Olaf Scholz must immediately cut his vacation short and speak out. “Where is Scholz? The traffic light coalition is once again falling apart in public because it has failed again on the budget – and the Chancellor is on vacation,” said CSU General Secretary Martin Huber to the German Press Agency in Munich. This is unbearable and disrespectful to the citizens. “That’s why it’s clear: Scholz must cut his vacation short.”
In Berlin, a dispute over the 2025 budget has once again broken out between representatives of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP. Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) announced on Sunday that 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. Accordingly, the budget would have to be renegotiated.
Bavaria’s Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) was also harsh in his criticism of the traffic light coalition: “First, the traffic light coalition took forever to reach an apparent budget agreement and now the compromise that was presented in a big and public way is obviously falling apart after just a few weeks. There is no sign of the ability to govern – it’s a real tragedy,” he told the newspapers of the Bavarian Media Group. The federal government must prioritize its spending in favor of investments in the future. It will not be possible to generate an economic upturn with consumer spending alone.
As a result, SPD leader Saskia Esken, among others, sharply criticized Lindner. In the morning magazine of ARD and ZDF, she accused the FDP chairman of first making the results of the reports on the 2025 budget public in the ZDF summer interview. “He speaks of transparency, but he has not created transparency within the government, but with the public. That is indecent, and it serves to raise his own profile,” said Esken. In doing so, Lindner is once again damaging the government.
SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert had previously made similar comments; he accused the Finance Minister of “self-promotion” because he published the results while Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was on vacation.
According to Esken, Scholz, Lindner and Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) want to discuss the budget issue, clarify it by August 14 and then submit the draft budget to parliament.
Source: Stern
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