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SPD calls for easing of the debt brake for the 2025 budget
Find out why the SPD wants to loosen the debt brake and how the Greens are reacting to it. Budget 2025 and the financing gap in focus. Reading time: 3 minutes.
SPD calls for easing of the debt brake for the 2025 budget
The SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag is pushing for the debt brake to be relaxed in the negotiations on the 2025 federal budget. The deputy SPD parliamentary group leader Achim Post emphasizes the need to invest in internal, external and social security without playing these areas off against each other. Suspension of the debt brake is seen as a possible option for the 2025 budget to ensure a strong Germany. Post underlines the importance of a strong budget to strengthen both internal and external security as well as the country's operations.
The Greens, on the other hand, warn against tough austerity measures in the 2025 federal budget in view of the challenges arising from the war situation in Europe, economic stagnation, the climate crisis and social polarization. Green budget politician Sven-Christian Kindler emphasizes that tough cuts would worsen the economic situation and endanger social peace. Investments in the future are necessary to ensure an economically wise and socially just financial policy.
In this context, the FDP continues to reject any weakening or suspension of the debt brake. FDP chief budget officer Otto Fricke calls for people to remain realistic and refrain from discussions that cannot lead to a majority that can change the constitution. Despite somewhat greater scope for borrowing due to the weak economy, a financing gap in the double-digit billion range is emerging, which is further fueling the debate about the 2025 federal budget.
The Union, in turn, sharply criticizes the procedure used by Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) to prepare the 2025 federal budget. The abandonment of the benchmark procedure is seen as a strategic mistake. The key figures are usually considered to be the draft budget for the following year and the financial plan for the following three years. Christian Haase, chief budget officer of the Union parliamentary group, describes Lindner's approach as naive in view of the financial policy dimensions and complex problems that have arisen from the current situation.