Deficit procedure established – National Council: Double Budget 2025/2026 decided

FPö MP Barbara Kolm predicted whether the worse reviews for Austria was. Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer (Spö), in turn, emphasized in his speech in the final chapter financing that the EU Maastricht goal would be achieved again in 2028. Just as the coalition worked together in the first few months, he was convinced that the renovation will succeed.

Before finances, the MPs had discussed the chapters of integration and family, mobility and national defense. In the first debate, the suspension of the valorization of family services polarized the most.

“Today is a bitter day for the families of Austria,” said FP MP Ricarda Berger. She described the non-valorization of family services as “quiet but especially cold reduction”. The FPö spreads “a lot of false information” and shook uncertainty, criticized the ÖVP mandate Johanna Jachs. The family area is even equipped with more money, the budget increases by around 3 percent in 2025 and 2026. Austria remains “European champion” for family performance, emphasizes the family minister Claudia Plakolm (ÖVP).

For and consume families
The group of single parents most of the family performance, but also criticized the green mandate Barbara Neßler. “This is the shortening of Deppert instead of sensible savings.” Spö mp Bernhard Herzog argued for the “look at the big whole”. Despite savings prints, the government supported families in various ways, referred to the expansion of basic pedagogy, increased German financing, healthy snacks and the strengthening of psychosocial care for children and adolescents. The Neos MP Gertraud Auinger-Oberzaucer turned against “A Watering Can Policy” for families.

The defense budget was also controversial. “Your development plan will be torpedoed by the left coalition partner,” said Blue Military spokesperson Volker Reifenberger as Minister of Defense Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP) with a view to the Spö-based Ministry of Finance, “and you make a good face a bad game”. Despite all the purchases, the core of the problem – namely the staff – is not tackled, the green military spokesperson David Stögmüller criticized and referred to accommodations in poor condition.

Tanner appealed to the MPs to concentrate on the joint concern of support for the army. “We can continue the development plan with this budget,” Tanner emphasized. The national defense is a challenge for society as a whole, said Spö MP Robert Laimer, while the Neos Secretary General Douglas Hoyos broke a lance for European cooperation. “It doesn’t matter how much money we invest, as a small republic we can’t prepare for all the dangers,” said Hoyos.

Greens criticize a more expensive climate
In the debate on the subject of mobility, the former minister of Infrastructure and the future Greon boss Leonore Gewessler was irritated that the climate ceremony was considerably more expensive, but climate-shabping subsidies such as the diesel privilege were continued. Her group colleague Lukas Hammer complained that the expansion and modernization of the publications were shortened. FP Transport spokesperson Gerhard Deheimek was concerned about the future of the regional trains and applied for their preservation.

MP Dominik Oberhofer replied from the Neos that public transport must also be reconsidered. Sometimes a bus in regional traffic works better than the rails. That is why the e-buses would also be promoted. Minister of Infrastructure Peter Hanke (Spö) ensured that the transition from mobility will take place. It could be discovered that tens of thousands of jobs remained secure. In the person of Joachim Schnabel, the ÖVP also emphasized that another increase in the mobility budget was successful.