Federal states are putting pressure on transport minister Wissing. Does the debt brake have to be relaxed for important projects? Several federal states are calling for a rethink on the subject.
“The ideological adherence to the principle of the Debt brake can prove to be an obstacle to development,” said the Left-led Thuringia IPPEN. The Saarland Ministry of Transport explained: ‘The debt brake is increasingly becoming a brake on investments and thus a brakes on the future’ The Rhineland-Palatinate is skeptical of a general weakening of thedebt brake. But Brandenburg's CD-led transport ministry is also skeptical of more money is needed from the federal government.“But I’m just a new budgetary sleight of hand,’ said CSU Transport Minister Christian Berniter to our editorial team, “I fear it’s just a light on the hand of the budgetary sleights of hand.”