Finance Minister Christian Lindner is relying on a strategy of escalating pressure on the other departments. Lindner's new budget state secretary, Wolf Reuter, will explain the dramatic financial situation of the federal government to his colleagues next week.
The federal budget is missing between 25 and 30 billion euros, says the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) The gap must be closed through savings, the BMF says. The savings volume could be distributed equally among the coalition partners, SPD, Greens and FDP.