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The debt brake fetish of FDP is much more of a ideology than the plans of the Green Party. Especially Habeck is more driven by necessity, Baerbock not so much.
by croes 2y ago
The debt brake fetish of FDP is much more of a ideology than the plans of the Green Party.
Especially Habeck is more driven by necessity, Baerbock not so much.
- mpweiher 2y agoThe FDP has ~5%. The Schuldenbremse was added to the constitution in 2009, which requires a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, and so had to be passed with broad agreement from both the ruling parties and the opposition.
- mpweiher 2y agoOh, and the EEG fee (guaranteed price for producers of renewable electricity regardless of demand) that is now funded through the federal budget exploded to > €20 billion. Which is pretty much the amount that caused the government to collapse in the budget row.