Reform of German debt brake may not get enough support, Groenen tend to against voice

Isn't the German debt bremes not being overhauled? Negotiation partners CDU/CSU and SPD announced billions of investments in Defense and Infrastructure, and for this purpose the debt brake, the constitutional regulation that limits German government spending, want to reform. But for that constitutional amendment, a two -thirds majority of Bundestag is needed, and the Greens now seem to be thwarted the plan. Group chairman Katherina Dröge called on her group to vote against the proposal.

The Bundestag will probably vote for the old composition next week, the Nieuwe Bundestag will only start on 25 March. In exceptional cases it is permitted that voting is made on the basis of those old relationships, but that is very unusual. The fact that SPD and CDU want to hurry with the plans is because the Radical-Right Alternative Für Deutschland (AfD) and the socialist who will have a stronger presence in the new parliament thanks to election profit.

The defense spending is mainly intended to finance support to Ukraine and to make Germany and Europe more resilient against the Russian threat-reason for the pro-Russian AfD to be against the reforms and even attempt to stop the mood. That Linke also seeks historical rapprochement with Russia. In recent years, this has been reduced because of the departure of pro-Russian MPs such as Sahra Wagenknecht and the party has expressly expressed support for Ukraine. From the pacifist principles, that Linke is nevertheless against more arms deliveries and against military organs such as NATO.

Support from Groenen

That is why CDU and SPD hoped to complete the relaxation of the debt brake before the first session of the new Bundestag. For that, it then needs support from the neo -liberal FDP (which will not return to the new Bundestag because the party remained under the electoral threshold) or the progressive greens. Support from FDP is excluded: the previous cabinet (with SPD, the Greens and FDP) fell precisely because that party did not want to fiddle with Debtbremse.

All hope was therefore located on the Greens, which gives the party a good negotiating position. Chairman Dröge was reluctant from the outset, because the plans did not mention climate policy. That is why the party 'for now' does not go along with the reform proposals – first the Greens want to see money for climate protection. Co -party leader Franziska Brantner also called the billions of plans « financing for tax presents ».

The reforms would be a historic break with the economical government policy of Germany. Tawing on the debt brake was unthinkable for years, but because of the poor condition of the economy, economists, the Bundesbank (the German Central Bank) and the International Monetary Fund have been for a long time.

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