[HIGHLIGHTS] Habeck has to plug the next budget hole - there is apparently a lack of 29 billion

Habeck has to plug the next budget hole - there is apparently a lack of 29 billion. The Bundestag is scheduled to finally pass the draft on Friday (February 2) A budget volume of 476.8 billion euros is planned.

Part of the additional expenditure comes from reallocations from the Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF) The new debt should amount to 39.03 billion euros, which corresponds exactly to the upper limit according to the debt brake. The original government draft for 2024 had earmarked 445.7 billion euros.