Bundesfinanzen: Bundeshaushalt für 2027 steht – zumindest vorläufig

Berlin: The provisional federal budget for 2027 has been approved, at least for now. The responsible budget committee made a few changes to the ministerial budgets during the night. However, it remains unclear whether the Union and SPD can fund the reduction of the electricity tax for everyone. The necessary approximately 5.4 billion euros are not included in the draft.

In the approximately 16-hour adjustment session, the ministers from the red-green coalition had to present themselves and some waited for hours at the door. The new Minister for Labor, Alexander Schweitzer (SPD), brought wine from the South Palatinate to the committee dinner. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) was the last to speak.

It was only at 6.00 a.m. that the hammer fell. The Bund can now spend as much money as never before in a single year, amounting to around 560.9 billion euros – that is 5.5 billion euros more than the federal government had planned in its draft. Almost 123 billion euros of the budget is debt-financed. The committee gave the green light for loans of nearly 123 billion euros alone in the core budget – four billion more than planned in the government draft.

Additional billion loans come from special pots: 57.8 billion for infrastructure, 29.6 billion for the Bundeswehr. In total, new debts amount to around 210 billion euros.