BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – After the Karlsruhe budget ruling, Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz is also having the special fund for energy price brakes checked for constitutionality and expects information on this soon. At the end of next week and the beginning of the week after next, he expects the first result of a legal report he commissioned as to whether the ruling on the transfer of Corona billions to the so-called Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF) also applies to the Economic Stabilization Fund (WSF), he said CDU boss on Thursday evening on ZDF’s “heute journal”. On this basis, the Union will decide whether it will also go to Karlsruhe against this fund. The energy price brakes are financed from the WSF.
The federal government made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP wanted to use 60 billion euros to combat Corona for climate protection and the modernization of the economy and reallocated the money with the approval of the Bundestag. The Karlsruhe judges declared this unconstitutional on Wednesday.
Merz admitted that the ruling would also affect the federal states. The CDU leader announced that he wanted to discuss this with the prime ministers of the Union-led states. What is clear, however, is that the federal government’s budget policy can continue as before.
Merz once again criticized the fact that the federal government had not stopped the ongoing process of drawing up the federal budget for 2024 despite the ruling, but was continuing it “unabashedly”. This is again heading towards an unconstitutional federal budget./shy/DP/he