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Parliamentary question - E-000584/2021Parliamentary question
E-000584/2021

Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (TSCG)

Question for written answer  E-000584/2021
to the Commission
Rule 138
Moritz Körner (Renew)

With the TSCG, 25 Member States pledged to introduce permanent binding fiscal rules, including debt brakes, preferably at constitutional level. In its report of 22 February 2017, the Commission concluded that the German legislation complied with the requirements of the TSCG. In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Germany suspended the debt brake in 2020 and 2021, in line with TSCG exemptions. In January 2021, Helge Braun, Federal Minister and Head of the German Chancellery, spoke out against a continued application of the derogation in the coming years. This would open the door to a ‘permanent softening of the debt rule’. Instead, the German Basic Law should be amended to ‘provide for a reliable degressive corridor for new debt and to set a clear date for the return to compliance with the debt rule’.

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