Its federal government Germany today finalized after long negotiations its 2025 budget plan, which envisages public spending of 480.6 billion euros and taking on new debt of 43.8 billion. However, the plan also includes significant cuts, while, according to the opposition, it moves to the limits of constitutionality and only marginally adheres to the “debt brake”, with the financial gap reaching 17 billion

The plan also adopts the government’s “growth initiative” to stimulate the German economy with a series of targeted measures. “There will be a significant boost to economic policy to make Germany a more attractive business destination. New room for maneuver in the budget can only be created through greater economic growth, which, in order to achieve, should increase competitiveness and strengthen innovation,” said the Minister of Finance. Christian Lindner (FDP).

“With his financial tricks, the Minister of Finance is headed once again to the limit of constitutionality. This is not an honest businessman’s approach,” commented Helge Braun, head of the Bundestag’s Budget Committee and the constitutional judge of North Rhine-Westphalia Joachim Wieland he stressed to BILD that “if the restrictive jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court continues, it is not without risk (no. the draft budget). Such a redistribution would have to be justified and I still don’t have anything about it.”

The draft budget will be tabled in the Bundestag after the summer recess, with the aim of having it approved by November. However, the process is not expected to be easy, as the parliamentary groups of even the governing parties are already expressing specific demands for the 2025 budget. The director of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) KO Katya Mast he stated that the funding gap would be reduced to a single digit amount during the implementation of the budget and stressed that SPD MPs would insist on claiming exemptions on the “debt brake.