Habeck calls on the Union to cooperate in the budget dispute: “We need a joint conversation”. “What if we introduced a special fund to solve the structural problems,” he suggested.

This could be paid out through tax breaks for companies, Habeck suggested. Merz had again rejected cooperation with the traffic light government in the Bundestag. Speakers from the Union and AfD accused the Traffic light government of being responsible for Germany's economic decline and of making the country "the economic bottom in Europe"