Defense and infrastructure
Union and Greens want to continue to advise today
Do the CDU, CSU and Greens still come together at the giant financial package? Time is pushing.
Union and Greens want to advise again on the planned financial package for defense and infrastructure. As with previous meetings, according to the negotiation circles, Union faction leader Friedrich Merz (CDU), his SPD colleague Lars Klingbeil, CSU state group leader Alexander Dobrindt and the two Greens parliamentary group leader Katharina Dröge and Britta Haßelmann are to be there. A meeting on Tuesday evening took around two hours.
The Greens do not want to agree to the planned billion-dollar defense and infrastructure package from the Union and SPD in its current form. They accuse the Union and SPD of wanting to finance their election promises with the package, such as the expansion of the mother’s pension and the reduction of taxes in the catering trade. They also doubt that the funds for infrastructure flow into additional projects instead of in projects that are already planned.
The package consists of two parts: the debt brake in the Basic Law should be relaxed for defense spending, and the gigantic special fund is to be put on for investments in infrastructure.
Union and SPD want to have both decided by the old Bundestag by March 25, in which they, together with the Greens, have the two-thirds majority necessary for constitutional changes. In the new Bundestag they need AfD (cooperation excluded) or left (cooperation extremely difficult).
dpa
Source: Stern
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