Mertz spoke as a “Chancellor of Finance” in the debate on the budget, referring to trials, but without suggestions for solutions. The Finance Ministry of Finance Kleningbail has chosen to focus on Europe.

He did not go to New York for the UN General Assembly but chose to stay in Berlin to put in order to put in order in the country’s public finances and to be present in the general debate on the budget of 2026.

This is the official Chancellor Line, sending the message, as the tagesschau.de website comments that Friedrich Mertz wanted to – for a little while – the designation of “Foreign Chancellor”, because of his involvement in intensively with great international developments and “

Especially when the number one problem for citizens, according to a recent poll, is to increase life cost in Germany. In this way, he avoided talking from the UN step about Gaza and Germany’s support for Israel, something the opposition, and most of all, green and left criticized.

Chancellor Mertz, in a dramatic aversion to his speech, spoke of the “biggest test” for the values ​​of the West and thus Germany, with the backdrop of war in Ukraine. In the context of wider appeals to the Germans lately, it has prepared the ground for a “autumn reforms”, but it seems identical, in its own “autumn challenges” in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, its wider instability.

Friedrich Mertz emphasized the need for “paragraphic reforms” for the welfare state, but without any specific pensions and planned cuts mainly in the so -called “social” ministries. He mainly referred to the appointments he is planning next time with representatives of Chancellor and the heavy industry. However, he did not speak about specific cuts and resource saving measures.

“Only an economy -oriented economy will produce wealth so that we can fund infrastructure, show solidarity and defend social security,” the Chancellor said.

More specific ideas were heard by the parliamentary group of co -ruling Social Democrats, who set the framework: more concern for affordable homes, reduction of bureaucracy, speeding up the law on facilitating investment and increased digitization rate in the country.

Videl: You betrayed the citizens

“Waste the capital of the next generations recklessly,” said far -right AfD co -righteous Tinos Kroupala, addressing government benches and focusing on his speech at high energy prices, high taxation, costs for the cost of protecting climate, costs.

At the same wavelength is the party’s co -chair, Alice Videl, who was a candidate for Chancellor in the February elections and which appears to have again set the target for Chancellor for 2029, while the latest poll gives the far -right AfD first 27%.

“You betrayed the citizens,” Videl said, addressing Chancellor Mertz, “you are doing politics against the people.” Straight shots once again threw the government on social benefits ‘policy’ that have been made of migratory benefits, “he said.

The Left also criticized the government, criticizing the government for historical investment in the defense instead of investment in education, housing and public transport.

Calingbale: Buy European

And on Wednesday, the “Budget 2026” package was almost entirely undertaken by the German Chancellor, Vice -Chancellor and Finance Ministry from the Social Democrats, Lars Clingbale, but has chosen to focus on the agenda of European and international politics.

Speaking at an event at Berlin’s Hertie School of Governance, Lars Clingbail stressed that Europe should become independent of the US and China, noting that Germany should also develop a “new industrial policy”: Of course, which is currently lagging behind, with the automotive industry in particular experiencing the deepest crisis in its history.

Germany itself will have to look for solutions at European level, even urging citizens to “buy European”. Lars Clingbale emphasized the development of common defense projects in Europe and the need to conclude agreements with new commercial partners, such as India. He stressed that unilateral actions of state-member states in terms of European directives are harmful and called for obstacles to exist within the single market, as well as incentives to start starters and small European companies.