Double package of interventions promotes Chancellor Friedrich Mertz to Germany In order to run an investment package – mammoth in defense and infrastructure 318 billion euros in the next four years.
The first leg of the mertz package for Funding of re -equipment (both by the public and – care! – by the private sector) of Germany (without which the EU re -equipment) concerns the health reform -following the ‘recommendation’ of NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte (which he met last week in Berlin) and the second the reform of business taxation.
Aim of the first intervention of mers (ie the health cuts) is Saving Public Expenditurewhile the target of the second (reduction in business taxes) is The increase in private investment.
More specifically, Chancellor Mertz himself, speaking last Thursday, July 11, 2025 (the day after Route’s visit to the German capital) in the Bundesrat plenary (ed. linked investments for defense and infrastructure in Germany, Following the adoption of the constitutional reform in March 2025 -a central point of which was the outbreak of the brake debt for the sake of unlimited increase in defense spending, in a common “line” with the later (June 2025) increase in the limit of defensive costs to 5% to 5% to 5% to 5% to 5% to the 5% of NATO. with the two above mentioned interventions:
- Cuts in public health care costs will lead to saving additional fiscal resources for the sake of increasing public defense spending, minimizing public lending.
- Business tax cuts will lead to attracting private investment alongside the “rivers” of state money planned by the German government.
Specifically, Mertz from the Bundesrat step (which – being remembered – had voted for the constitutional reform to increase defense spending on March 21, 2025) characteristically said that “The new federal budget plan, which we discussed in the federal parliament this week, also provides for a significant increase in infrastructure investment and investment in our defense.”.
And he added, saying that “The projected volume of all investment costs this year is about 116 billion euros, that is, already € 40 billion more than last year. Over the next four years, we will also invest an additional 200 billion in defense and 1.4 billion are available in the second government plan for 2025 only for political protection and protection. “
Mertz made it clear that “these investments in the security and modernization of our country are necessary, they are delayed.”
“Equally,” he noted, shortly afterwards that is something else ‘clear’: “It’s a big loan we get to the generation of our children and grandchildren in this country.”
Without leaving any room for… misinterpretations of how and who This state loan will be paid (not least that in recent days there has been an increase in the yields – and – of German government bonds) for security investments (Germany’s military defense) and “modernization”, the German Chancellor explained that the German Chancellor explained that “It is an obligation for all of us to proceed with the great work of reforming social security systems.”
Indeed, she said “happy” that “the Federal-State-State Committee for reform of care began its work this week.”
And for those in Germany (or in Greece in Greece) they expect that the state will simply throw a bunch of funds in the war industry, without even putting it, Mertz said that ‘We have an even more urgent (ed. Relationship with health reform) duty To restore the long -term economic growth in Germany, from which all levels of governance will benefit financially, including municipal level. In practice, this means that we have to make Germany again more attractive for private investment as soon as possible. That is why we are launching the immediate investment program today with your own support. This is the first major reform of business taxation in Germany for more than 15 years. We make Germany again attractive and competitive as a place of business installation. “