Budget 2025: Christian Lindner's austerity plans encounter resistance from the SPD. The 2025 budget is once again missing a double-digit billion sum.
Violent conflicts are already emerging in the traffic light coalition. There is an urgent need for a debate about reforming the debt rule and a fair tax policy, says Tim Klüssendorf, a spokesman for the “Parliamentary Left’ in the SPD parliamentary group. The dismantling of social safety nets would attack social cohesion and endanger the support for our democracy in the long term.