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Robert Habeck is Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection
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The federal government wants to create a further 148 new jobs in the ministries and the Chancellery.
This emerges from a personal list of the budget working groups of the SPD, Greens and FDP.
Economics minister Robert Habeck (Greens) alone is to get 24 additional posts for the »development and implementation of ambitious measures in the field of climate protection«.
Habeck announced at a press conference on Monday that he wanted to almost triple the pace of reducing climate-damaging emissions.
He described the planned massive expansion of renewable energies as a "gigantic task" - and a great opportunity.
Criticism of the opposition
The additional staff is to be decided in the second supplementary budget for 2021, which the committee will discuss on Wednesday and which is to be passed by the Bundestag at the end of January.
In mid-December, the traffic light parties had already approved 176 new posts at the budget committee.
Nine of the positions now listed and 95 of the previously applied for are therefore intended for the new Ministry of Housing, Building and Urban Development.
Further additional positions are to be created for the fight against right-wing extremism, for a new climate policy department in the Federal Foreign Office, for the procurement and distribution of vaccines or for a new section for the planned citizen benefits.
The opposition is critical of the recent increase.
"The coalition is excessive and is legally questionable once again," said the budgetary spokesman for the Union parliamentary group, Christian Haase.
svs / dpa / Reuters
