Growth package
Lindner accuses Union of refusing to do so
Christian Lindner (FDP) is hopeful that there will be a rethink in the Union in the next few weeks. photo
© Serhat Kocak/dpa
In the conciliation process, a growth package was adopted with a traffic light majority – but the Union wants cuts in agricultural diesel subsidies to be reversed.
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) told the Union Growth package accused of an attitude of refusal. Lindner said in the evening after a meeting of the mediation committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat that the German economy urgently needs stimulus. However, the CDU and CSU refused the German economy’s call for a relief perspective and growth impulses. He hopes that there will be a rethink within the Union in the next few weeks.
In the mediation process, a slimmed-down growth package was accepted by the traffic light majority. However, the Union still wants the cuts in agricultural diesel subsidies to be reversed. It is now unclear whether the growth package will receive approval in the Federal Council on March 22nd.