Overview
- The Bundestag Greens released two legal opinions alleging the 2025 budget breaches Article 143h by diverting parts of the infrastructure and climate special fund from its investment mandate.
- The opinions cite non‑investment spending and reclassifications—such as hospital operating subsidies, LNG terminal operations and support for the Schwedt refinery—as inconsistent with the fund’s purpose.
- After concluding they lack the 25% quorum for an abstract review and that an organ dispute is not the right vehicle, the party says it will help citizens and organizations file individual complaints in Karlsruhe.
- The Finance Ministry says the 2025 budget is constitutional and the required investment quota is met, while CDU/CSU and SPD figures dismiss the Greens’ push as political.
- The Greens previously backed creating the fund on the condition of additional investments, but experts, including the party’s own counsel, warn any litigation could take years with uncertain chances of success.