Cut social spending in favor of the military? Habeck considers the bill to be “fatal”. National debt at the end of 2023 will be almost 2.5 trillion euros.
The mountain of public debt rose by 77.3 billion euros or 3.3 percent last year. The main reason was the increase in debt of the “Energy Economic Stabilization Fund” to cushion the consequences of the energy crisis resulting from the Russian war against Ukraine. The federal government's debt increased at an above-average rate. It rose by 4.7 percent or 76 billion euros to almost 1,696 billion euros.