Constitutional lawyers consider the reserve unconstitutional

Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock (both Greens), Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Christian Lindner (FDP), from left to right

The exploratory paper presented on Friday contains various spending requests – as well as a commitment to the debt brake anchored in the Basic Law.

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Berlin The traffic light explorers have many wishes. However, they do not have the necessary change. No matter how much the partners assert that all projects can be financed under the debt brake, they are still looking for fresh money.

An example of this is the Greens co-chair Annalena Baerbock. She said on Monday on Deutschlandfunk that the renewed suspension of the debt brake in 2022 due to the corona pandemic would offer the leeway to get into serious debt again.

Economists such as Clemens Fuest, Marcel Fratzscher and Lars Feld had already made a similar proposal. According to this, in the coming year, in which the debt brake is suspended for the last time due to the corona crisis, the federal government should create a reserve for the years thereafter.

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