Debt brake: CDU Prime Minister Boris Rhein open to debate. Chancellor Olaf Scholz currently does not see a majority in favor of a necessary constitutional change.
Since the Federal Constitutional Court's budget ruling, changes to the debt brake have been discussed again and again. In the current year, the federal budget plans to spend 476.8 billion euros. The Social Democrats and the Greens want to change the rules, the FDP is sticking to them. The CDU leader Merz wants to stick to it.