The Bundestag debate on the budget for 2019 and financial planning. However, after the extreme right-wing riots in Chemnitz, the German Finance play only a minor role. From Berlin, Sabine Kinkartz.
Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz presented his plans
Actually, should be in the first session of the Bundestag after the parliamentary summer break, the Numbers in the center, and normally, the Federal Minister of Finance, has the first word. However, the death of a 35-Year-old in Chemnitz and the following right-wing riots throw their shadow even on the budget debate. As the first speaker of the day, the President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble, spoke of a growing division of the population and condemned at the same time clear the riots. “The events of Chemnitz, forcing us to distinguish between inexcusable Violence and the Concerns that plague many of our citizens.”
For “xenophobia, Hitler greetings, Nazi symbols and attacks on Jewish institutions,” there could be “neither indulgence nor understanding of the trivialization,” said Schäuble in his six-minute speech with which he opened the session of Parliament. “If we want to secure the mutual tolerance and respect, we need to make it clear that violence and incitement of violence are just as forbidden as the use of slogans and symbols, to make the the democratic state of law is the basic consensus of our Republic.”
A strong rule of law is in demand
Schäuble is concerned that the society’s cohesion is lost. “We need no Revolution, but a strong and tolerant rule of law”, the Bundestag President. The only way to deal with violent criminals and extremists. The enforcement of the Law is not relocatable. Necessarily listen to the need of those who find themselves currently in a political-social debate. “People are afraid of too rapid change, too much immigration fear, must be taken seriously, such as, the commitment to an open society.”
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Schäuble’s Position to Chemnitz
The German Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz, to castle with his speech, schäuble’s warnings. “We mourn with the Victims and we are angry at the offender in Chemnitz, and other Places.” It is depressing that men had sought as refugees protection in Germany, seems to be the culprit.
“Let us not separate”!
With a side of Minister Horst Seehofer, who had spoken of the migration policy as the “mother of all problems”, a swipe at German interior Scholz added: “We, who mourn, are all here in Germany, and also the nearly 20 million citizens, or their parents once immigrated into this country are expressly. You will mourn with us, and they are on our side.” Do not let yourself disconnect.
Then the Federal Finance Minister waved to his actual topic, the budget for the year 2019 and the gross financial planning up to 2022. The Bulgarian foresees for the coming year, expenditure 356.8 billion euros. 13.2 billion euros, or four percent more, than for 2018 are planned. On new debt, the SPD politician Scholz want to be without again – he’s holding by his predecessor in office, the CDU politician Wolfgang Schäuble introduced in 2014 “the black Zero”. To remain the financial plan, up to the year 2022.
New financial crisis coming? You never know …
For the first time since 17 years in Germany in 2019, will also meet the EU’s Maastricht criteria, which prescribes a leverage ratio of less than 60 per cent of the gross domestic product. Thus, Scholz sees the country well placed. “This Federal budget and the decisions taken by this government, that we can confidently look forward and make Provision for a better future.”
Views of the Government, with a Chancellor and Ministers
The importance of Preparedness and a sound budget, have shown the financial crisis, so Scholz. Their beginning, the Bankruptcy of the US investment Bank, Lehman Brothers, marks the anniversary of the 15. September 2018 for the tenth Time. Since then, the policy had done much, so could not repeat such a crisis, the Federal Minister of Finance. The current economic situation is good, all the data would suggest that there is no crisis coming. “But as little as in 2008 we truly were able to see what happened in 2009 and 2010 in Germany, Europe and the world, so little we can say with the utmost self-assurance that will never come in the near future.”
Common household with separate objectives
Even if the budget is borne by Union and the SPD alike, as a glance at the Details, but the different political preferences of the parties. The defence budget in 2019 is expected to grow by around four billion euros to nearly 43 billion euros. For the CDU. The so-called NATO-the rate rises to 1.31 percent of the gross domestic product. Thus, the Federal government is still significantly different from the 2014 with the NATO partners agreed to aim to reach a Highlight of the two percent of economic output.
More money is also flowing into the internal security. Additional expenditure of around three billion euros are provided for the benefit of the Federal police and the Bundeskriminalamt. Also, the Ministry of development gets significantly more money – here an increase of one billion Euro is planned; a total of 9.7 billion euros, the Ministry then.
What about the pension?
The SPD, the social-political issues are particularly important. Families should be financially relieved, the pension level will remain up to the year 2015 to be stable. If it was up to the Minister of Finance Scholz would go, also the Deputy SPD Chairman, would be debated soon on the pensions until 2040 at the current level. However, since the CDU and the CSU do not want to go along with it.
A topic that is of great concern to the members of the opposition FDP. It was strange that a Minister of Finance call for more spending. This was not his task, he had to instead keep the Hand on the cashier, criticized the FDP budget expert Otto Fricke, who described the Bulgarian as backward-looking.
Criticism of the AfD
According to the calculations of the FDP, the Federal government intends to spend 70 per cent of the additional budget for labour and social Affairs, and a further 15 per cent for defence. “Actually, don’t rühstücken the future, by giving 85 per cent for internal security, for education, for the future of any type are not for children,” said Fricke.
Also, the AfD is not a good hair on the Bulgarian. The plans were a “unfinished fog a work of art,” criticized Peter Boehringer, the most protrudes to the right wing to the budget Committee. “The kleptomaniac state takes the citizens, in the meantime, almost 400 billion euros.” It will be distributed money with the watering can, instead of the “hard-working citizens surpluses in times of Record, and the gushing tax revenue,” more money back.
On Wednesday the General debate follows
Spread over four days, the MP will argue this week a total of about 27 hours on each of the state posts in the draft budget. On Wednesday, the budget of the Chancellery of the program. Traditionally, it is used for a political General debate in which the Chancellor and the respective group leaders to take the floor. Here, too, the budget will certainly play the main role. Instead, a fierce controversy about the consequences of Chemnitz, and the growing extreme right-wing violence in Germany is to be expected.