“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” writes: “Government Germans will have it relatively easy this year and next, although their tax revenues will also suffer reason bad economic situation. It benefits from the fact that it has to pay a smaller share of its tax revenues to the EU. But overall thing Taken together, the result does not make it easier for the coalition to keep next year's borrowing under the debt rule. By mid-November, the SPD, the Greens and the FDP want to finalize how much money the government can spend and on what. While the deteriorating economic situation allows for higher new borrowing, the recession is likely to increase social spending such as the Citizenship Allowance and housing costs. Even before the latest tax estimates, the so-called adjustment meeting of the Bundestag's budget committee, scheduled for November 14, was seen as a cliff edge on which the government coalition could collapse.
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“Frankfurter Rundschau” emphasizes the absolute need for more investment in crumbling infrastructure: “We need a functioning transport infrastructure in Germany. Not only in terms of the railways and its overloaded rail network, but also because of the aging bridges, roads and highways, which means that existing infrastructure must be kept operational and functioning at its best accident new, even crazy ideas, should bring it to the cutting-edge level of technology and thus provide it with further advantages in terms of mobility.
“Leipziger Volkszeitung” has a similar opinion: “The key slogan: enough money for the digitalization of the railways. Record investments in the railway network this year were therefore not only long overdue, but also completely right. However, they should not mean repeated budgetary “The right solution in this case would be to establish a long-term infrastructure fund.”
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“Straubinger Tagblatt/Landshuter Zeitung” notes: “Christian Lindner from the FDP also knows what money is wasted on. Of course – on social spending. Although this has long been a well-known chant aimed at the weaker members of society, he is right about one thing: if more people go to work instead of living on social welfare, everyone will benefit; expenses will be saved and incomes will increase. Although the Minister of Economy, Robert Habeck from the Green Party, would prefer to stimulate the economy with subsidies, Lindner and Chancellor Scholz are against it, even though the rest of the world competing with Germany does exactly that. (…) Since the introduction of a wealth tax for a small group of super-rich is unacceptable to Lindner and his FDP, state spending will have to be reduced. However, if the necessary investments fail because of this, “Not only the current government coalition, but the entire country will lose a lot from this.”
“Muenchner Merkur” notes: “The fact that Habeck's idea regarding the 'German Fund' and billion-dollar subsidies saw the light of day at all shows, unfortunately, how little the green head of the Ministry of Economy, which was once obliged to maintain the order. Habeck always saw himself as the minister of climate, he devoted a lot of cleverness to Germany's withdrawal from nuclear energy at an inopportune moment, and he did not care about ensuring the country's economic progress, which led him to the recession that has lasted for two years know one thing: his latest proposal, which the Greens are brandishing at a very critical moment for the government coalition, must act on the pro-market FDP like a rag on a bull. In any case, Habeck's ideas will not bring the desired return in the economy, which the head of the FDP, Christian Lindner, has made a precondition for the continued existence of the current one. government coalition.
According to “Maerkische Oderzeitung” from Frankfurt (Oder), “however, the current government coalition has avoided complex reforms: mitigating the predictable increase in costs in the health service and care sector, making the pension system poverty-proof, modernizing the tax system, especially in the field of uniform corporate taxation. Too late and too reacted poorly to bureaucratic excesses and, for ideological reasons, withdrew from a beneficial and climate-friendly energy source (nuclear) without establishing an appropriate replacement for it. Meanwhile, this is exactly what the German Council of Economic Experts recommended, already in its report for 2016.
The article comes from the website Deutsche Welle.