Thanks to the budget planning of the former Minister Müller, your department is “dramatically underfunded” by the CSU. The SPD politician speaks of a “heavy burden, also for Germany’s role in the world”.
According to the recently responsible minister Svenja Schulze (SPD), development policy is “dramatically underfunded” for the coming years. , she told the editorial network Germany. The medium-term budget planning of her predecessor Gerd Müller (CSU) was anything but sustainable, criticized Schulze. Müller and Schulze were colleagues until recently – Schulze was Environment Minister in the government of Chancellor Merkel, and she has now taken over the development department in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Germany has entered into long-term international commitments, for which, however, there is not enough money available, said Schulze. “That urgently needs to be corrected.” Otherwise there is a risk that commitments to fight hunger and pandemics or support refugees cannot be financed.
The minister warned that the challenges in development policy are “gigantic”. “The pandemic has dramatically worsened the situation in many of our partner countries. For the first time in years of progress, absolute poverty is rising again,” she said. “We won’t do that with less money.”