Because of the flagging economy want to ask the Minister of Finance Scholz, individual departments have less money available than there was hoped. Especially in the Ministry of defence, the budget is likely to provide for discussions.
The black-red coalition have to tighten the Federal budget belt-tightening. The Ministry of Finance said, is the Black Zero in the budget 2020 is a top priority. The game is in the budget for additional expenditure to be areas of low.
Individual ministries should not get to the basic Parameters of the budget as much extra money as required. The same applies for the Ministry of defence and the Ministry of development. The more money there is to be for families with small and medium incomes, for the Expansion of digital infrastructure, for transport and for research and development.
The Black Zero in the budget 2020 is a top priority.
forecast lowered
The Federal government had lowered its growth forecast for the German economy. Reason is a slowdown, especially in the world economy, as well as risks about the Brexit.
and, Therefore, lower growth in tax revenues. Billion-dollar expenditure for the proposed basic pension are not shown in the basic Parameters for the budget in the year 2020. There is no bill in front of sun, it was said in the Ministry of Finance.
Overall, the Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz, said plans for 2020, with expenditure in the amount of 362,6 billion euros, which is 1.7 percent more than in 2019. The investment of the Federal government to rise moderately to 39.6 billion euros.
