Edition of the additional billion: Financial package is – demands for distribution

According to the Federal Council’s decision for a huge financial package, claims to distribute the funds are loud. Education associations propose to estimate a fixed sum from the new special fund for the digitization of daycare centers, schools and universities. The city day called to distribute the money from the special fund as quickly as possible and according to a simple award procedure to countries and municipalities.

The general manager of the city day, Helmut Dedy, told the Editorial Network Germany (RND): “The easier the process is, the faster we have the money on the street, and people notice that something has to be done. That has to be a top priority.”

Proposal from the north: Use well -known distribution keys

Schleswig-Holstein’s Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) spoke out in the RND and ZDF “Today Journal” to distribute the funds from the special fund over the so-called Königstein key. With the distribution key, the tax revenue of the countries is simply rated twice, the respective population. The procedure is often used for federal-state financing.

After the Bundestag, the Federal Council had also cleared the way for the financial package on Friday, with which billions of bills in defense and infrastructure can be invested via new debts. The debt brake, which is anchored in the Basic Law, is relaxed for expenses in defense, civil protection, intelligence services and cyber security.

Around 100 billion euros for the federal states

In addition, a special fund is created, for which the debt brake does not apply and which is fed up to 500 billion euros with loans. From this, the repair of the dilapidated infrastructure is to be paid. 100 billion euros are to go to the federal states, another 100 billion euros should flow into climate protection and the climate -friendly conversion of the economy.

In the future, the federal states will be able to accommodate debts of 0.35 percent of gross domestic product – this would be around 15 billion euros this year. So far, a debt limit of zero has been valid for the countries.

Union, the SPD and Greens had agreed on the financial package after days of rings. The Greens were needed for the two -thirds majority in the Bundestag and the Federal Council. The law must now be checked and signed by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for his constitutional state.

Söder: “No self -service shop”

The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder warned a well thought -out and legally regulated edition of the funds of the special fund. “It is not a self -service shop for nobody, but it has to be justified by technical decisions and laws: what will be for the road, what is output for the rail, what is output for hospitals. What is important for science and research.” All of this still had to be decided, the CSU boss told the RND.

The President of the German Teachers’ Association, Stefan Düll, spoke in favor of double the funds for the new digital pact for schools to 10 billion euros by 2030 in order to replace outdated devices and finance ongoing costs. The chairwoman of the German Philologists’ Association, Susanne Lin-Klitzing, spoke of a “historical opportunity”: “It is essential to massively invest a substantial part of the special fund in education in order to secure Germany’s future viability,” she told the RND.