Budget crisis: Union demands leadership from Olaf Scholz

Budget crisis: Union demands leadership from Olaf Scholz

Before his government declaration in the Bundestag, Union politicians from Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) demands leadership in the budget crisis. The Chancellor must explain how he wants to put the federal budgets for 2023 and 2024 on a solid footing, said Union parliamentary group vice-president Jens Spahn Rhenish Post. “Scholz is the elected chancellor, he … Read more

News podcast: Where the 60 billion euros for the climate will come from now

News podcast: Where the 60 billion euros for the climate will come from now

The traffic light government wanted to put 60 billion euros into the so-called climate and transformation fund. This should serve to support the project Federal Government in the fight against climate change, such as the improvement of the rail infrastructure or energy-efficient renovation of buildings. According to a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court, the … Read more

De Croo’s proposed budget measures are pushing PS and CD&V towards the sidelines.

The prime minister smuggled both the minimum pensions and the tax reform into the discussion about extra budgetary efforts this weekend. It aroused considerable annoyance among the PS and CD&V. With ‘renewed courage’, the federal government started again around 7 p.m. on Sunday evening. All previous talks had come to nothing this weekend, but Prime … Read more

NASA discusses the federal budget request for 2024 during a press conference today – the seventh day

Written by Muhammad Ayman Monday, March 13, 2023 06:00 PM will discuss NASA agency its budget for the fiscal year 2024 during a press conference today, Monday (March 13), according to the website space. The White House unveiled its 2024 federal budget request Thursday (March 9), revealing that it has set aside $27.2 billion for … Read more

Because hardly anyone wants to donate money to the state

Reichstag in Berlin Anyone who wants can donate money to the state, but hardly anyone wants it. (Photo: IMAGO/serienlicht) Berlin Marlene Engelhorn is a descendant of the BASF company founder Friedrich Engelhorn, will inherit double-digit millions and would like to pay significantly more taxes. With about 60 other millionaires, she is involved in the “taxmenow” … Read more

Budget: Van Peteghem curbs the skimming of excess profits

CD&V Deputy Prime Minister Vincent Van Peteghem wants to go far less in skimming excess profits in the energy sector than the proposal presented by Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten (Groen). “If we put something on the table, it can’t be destroyed by a court two months later,” he said Saturday before the federal … Read more

The gap is only getting bigger: an additional 4.3 billion in the red, yet the government found room to spend a lot of extra money

– © BELGIAN – The gap in the portfolio has widened even further. Since October, the government has been in the red for an additional 4.3 billion, so that the budget deficit has already risen to 20.7 billion euros. And yet the government has found a lot of extra money to spend, up to 2 … Read more

Corona and climate crisis: Expensive prospects for 2022 | Germany | DW

It was something like the first official act of the new Federal Finance Minister and FDP boss Christian Lindner. Shortly after he was sworn in, he enacted a law for a supplementary budget, which as an opposition politician he would have castigated as unsound. He wants to transfer unused Corona loans from 2021 so that, … Read more

“We just did everything for the middle class”: viceprem…

– © Kris Van Exel – You can set your clock on it, CD&V deputy prime minister Vincent Van Peteghem receives his trophy with every agreement in the federal government. Quite an impressive list of achievements in the meantime, but – not unimportant for a politician – he doesn’t really get much attention. It doesn’t … Read more

MR and Vooruit continue to disagree about tax benefit two…

Government parties MR and Vooruit continue to fundamentally disagree about the tax deductibility of second, third and fourth homes. That turned out in the seventh day on a. Forward chairman Conner Rousseau announced that he would continue to fight against the measure. ‘But how else are people supposed to put something aside for their retirement?’, … Read more