Gasoline will drop, there will be a premium of 300 euros for workers and cheap tickets for public transport
The government of the federal chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has approved this Wednesday an extensive aid package to relieve citizens of the sharp rises in energy and fuel as a result of the war in Ukraine. The measures include a single premium of 300 euros for those who regularly pay their personal income tax, an increase in public aid for each child and the introduction for three months from June of a monthly subscription for all local public transport in the country, including suburban and regional railways, from only 9 euros. In addition, and for three months, the price of gasoline and diesel will be reduced by 30 and 14 cents per liter, respectively, after exceeding a price at gas stations of 2 euros for both fuels for weeks.
The most expensive of the initiatives is the so-called “general payment for energy prices” of 300 euros, which will be paid to all workers who contribute to social security next September and which will mean an outlay of 10.4 billion euros, according to calculations by the Federal Ministry of Finance. This aid package is part of the extraordinary budgets of 40,000 million euros that the team of the head of Finance, the liberal Christian Lindner, has drawn up. The German executive plans to assume this year a new debt worth 138,000 million euros.
These extraordinary budgets also include the costs of receiving refugees from Ukraine, of which more than 350,000 have been registered so far, financial aid for the kyiv authorities of 5,000 million euros and another 1,450 million euros that will be allocated to humanitarian aid. The conservative opposition demands that the federal government also prepare a comprehensive download package for companies and industries affected by the war, but also by the stoppage in the supply chain and the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic.
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