debt brake
Lindner’s budget: 7.5 billion euros in debt in 2023
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner wants to use all means possible to comply with the debt brake again in 2023. Photo: Gustavo Valiente/EUROPA PRESS/dpa
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Christian Lindner is fighting for the debt brake. Next year he wants to comply with them again after the Corona exception. There is open discussion about a supplementary budget for the current year.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to take on new debts of 7.5 billion euros in the coming year and thus comply with the debt brake again.
In the current year, on the other hand, there should initially be 99.7 billion euros in new loans due to the Corona crisis in the core budget. Should it be decided, there would be a 100 billion euro special fund for defense policy due to the war in Ukraine. The budget plan is to be approved in the cabinet on Wednesday and then handed over to the Bundestag.
Supplementary budget for 2022
However, the Ministry of Finance is already preparing a so-called supplementary budget for 2022, a kind of update during the ongoing budget process. Additional expenditure due to the war – for example to secure the energy supply and to relieve the citizens in view of the high energy prices – should then be incorporated here. At the moment, however, it is not possible to reliably estimate whether and how much new debt will be necessary. “We drive on sight,” it said.