Marter builders and Babler defend climate cuts: "People were buried with money"

How balanced is the new budget? Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer and Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler on degraded climate support, social hardships and pension cuts against previous SPÖ promises

Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer must renovate the budget that has ruined his incapacitated predecessors. Perhaps the ÖVP will jump over its shadow again?

The 2025/2026 double budget will be debated for the first time in the National Council on Wednesday. Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer's (SPÖ) draft budget proposes reducing the deficit from 4.7 to 4.5 percent of GDP this year. Next year, it is expected to reach 4.2 percent. This is to be achieved through tax measures, a significant reduction in subsidies, especially in the environmental sector, and fee increases, for example, for documents an…

For the first time in a lifetime, Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg and a pure Labour government will present a revised state budget. It already seems clear that neither SV nor Sp will have an easy time getting a majority.

In his eagerly awaited budget speech, finance minister Markus Marterbauer announced today "hard years". A total of 54 billion euros will be saved by 2029 or lucrative over additional revenues. What Salzburg's politicians say about this, we have summarized here for you.