In the debate about savings in the federal budget for 2024 Wolfgang Kubicki advocated making major cuts in development cooperation. “We have to put the projects abroad fully to the test and reduce the amount of German development aid to the average G7 level, which would save double-digit billions,” said the deputy FDP chairman Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.
Last year, Germany loudly OECD around 32 billion euros spent, said the FDP vice president. “Other G7 members such as France and Great Britain paid just over 14 billion euros, Italy paid less than six billion euros and Canada paid around seven billion euros.” Only the USA spends more money on development aid.
Thorsten Frei speaks of alignment along “national interests”
The Parliamentary Managing Director of the Union faction, Thorsten Frei, also spoke out in favor of examining the means. In the newspaper, the CDU politician called for “a much stronger orientation of development cooperation along national interests.” The German economy must benefit more from orders that follow development aid.
The spokesman for the federal government said on Tuesday that as part of the political agreement on the budget for 2024, spending on Germany’s international engagement be reduced by a total of 800 million euros should. Accordingly, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection should each contribute an amount of 200 million euros and the Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation 400 million euros. Further details are still being worked on.
In July, before the Federal Constitutional Court’s momentous ruling on the federal budget, the federal government presented a draft that would reduce the development budget for 2024 by 600 million euros. Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) described this as “very, very painful” in the summer, but considered it necessary given the budget situation. Overall, there is a double-digit billion deficit in the federal budget for 2024, which must be closed through savings if the federal government does not want to take out even more loans.
In the debate about savings in the federal budget for 2024 Wolfgang Kubicki advocated making major cuts in development cooperation. “We have to put the projects abroad fully to the test and reduce the amount of German development aid to the average G7 level, which would save double-digit billions,” said the deputy FDP chairman Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.
Last year, Germany loudly OECD around 32 billion euros spent, said the FDP vice president. “Other G7 members such as France and Great Britain paid just over 14 billion euros, Italy paid less than six billion euros and Canada paid around seven billion euros.” Only the USA spends more money on development aid.