After the Karlsruhe budget verdict, Chancellor Scholz wants to quickly clarify the financing of state aid. The Bundestag is scheduled to discuss the supplementary budget for the current year in just a week.
After the Karlsruhe budget ruling, Chancellor Olaf Scholz assured citizens that they would make quick decisions about how to proceed. Help in special emergencies is still possible, said the SPD politician in a video speech. This is the most important news recorded by the Constitutional Court. Scholz mentioned, for example, help to protect jobs and companies during the pandemic or during the devastating floods in the Ahr Valley.
“We will revise next year’s budget carefully in the light of the judgment – quickly, but with due care,” said the Chancellor. He referred to his government statement in the German Bundestag planned for Tuesday and said that necessary decisions should not be put off for a long time. Shortly after Scholz’s video message was published, Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) announced that the state electricity and gas price brakes would be allowed to expire at the end of the year, unlike planned.
Scholz names the goals of the Federal Government
The federal government is guided by clear goals and continues to pursue them, said Scholz in his video address. “First, we want to mitigate the consequences of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and its impact on our country.” In second and third place, the Chancellor named support for Ukraine and strengthening cohesion in Germany.
“Fourthly, we want to continue to modernize our country so that we continue to have a strong industry, good jobs and good wages in the future if we operate in a climate-neutral manner in the future,” said Scholz. Fifth, the federal government wants Germany to become faster and more digital.
consultations about Supplementary budget in a week
The Bundestag is scheduled to discuss the federal government’s supplementary budget for the current year for the first time on Friday next week. This is necessary because the Federal Constitutional Court declared the transfer of unused Corona loans to the Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF) to be inadmissible. Other special funds such as the Economic Stabilization Fund (WSF), from which the energy price caps are paid, must now be placed on a different legal basis. That’s why Finance Minister Lindner announced yesterday that the debt brake would be suspended for the fourth year in a row.
Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said that the federal cabinet wanted to decide on the supplementary budget for 2023 without a special meeting in circulation by the beginning of the week. He pointed out that the Bundestag would have to declare an emergency with a simple majority in order to suspend the debt brake. What exactly this should consist of remained unclear. Hebestreit was convinced that the supplementary budget could be passed in the Bundestag “just in time for Christmas”.