More than 15 hours of the budget Committee of the Bundestag needed. At the end of a long night of budget for 2019. The Opposition complained of money distribution to the watering can principle.
The Grand coalition wants to deploy in the coming year, more resources for defence, development aid and social. The Federal budget provides for expenditure of 356,4 billion euros – just under 13 billion euros more than this year. The “black Zero” is supposed to be: On new debt will be waived for the sixth Time in a row. This was revealed by the final deliberations of the budget Committee. The budget is to be adopted in two weeks ‘ time by the Bundestag.
In the nearly 16-hour marathon session, several Amendments to the draft of the Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz, have been decided by the Cabinet in July had approved. The bottom line is, the expenditures were reduced in comparison to 400 million euros. At the same time, there were shifts.
More money for development aid
The budget of the Ministry of defence grows according to the will of the coalition, groups more than expected to 43.2 billion euros to EUR 38.5 billion in the current year. This is mainly to the procurement of ships. Also, the development budget is growing again: from 9.4 billion euros this year to € 10.2 billion in 2019.
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The largest single item is the budget for labour and social Affairs, which includes in the coming year 145,3 billion euros. 2018 were EUR 139.2 billion euros. The expenditure for Hartz-IV-services are expected to rise, even the children’s money is to be raised.
In addition, the so-called “cold Progression is reduced”. The Problem arises when income and wage increases to offset the Inflation, the buying power of the worker increases. By the Tariff in the income tax he pays disproportionately more taxes to the Treasury.
… and for research – here is a laboratory of the University of Bonn (archive footage)
The budgetary policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Eckhardt Rehberg, said it was a “budget for the location Germany”. Due to savings gained in the game rooms had been used for internal and external security and international development cooperation. Extra money there is for research, social cohesion, culture and climate protection.
From a “budget-and are thus” language, in contrast, the budgetary policy spokesman of the Green parliamentary group, Sven-Christian Kindler. The coalition of redistributing money “with the watering can without a clear compass.” Investment in affordable housing, public transport, fast Internet and good schools were “substantially too low”. Instead, the Grand coalition can be fixed by displaying the military budget, criticized Kindler.
jj/stu (dpa, afp)