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.
Rhineland-Palatinate, which is also pro-debt brake, is against easing the brake. “We are critical of a general weakening of the Debt brake,” says the transport minister of the state of Brandenburg, Christian Bernreiter. ‘I fear it’s just a new light of sleight of hand of the current budgetary hand,’ says Bavaria's transport minister, who is less convinced of the plan of transportation minister Volker Wissed.. The debt brake is increasingly becoming a brake on investments, says the Saarland Ministry of Transport. Otherwise, the renovation backlog threatens to create a “massive mortgage for future generations”, says Bremen's Transport Minister, who complains about the poor state of infrastructure in his state.