In the Bundestag’s budget committee, the coalition factions of the Union and SPD agreed on a so -called sports billion. Accordingly, in Federal budget Anchored a billion euros for the renovation of municipal sports facilities for the current year.
It is planned that the budget committee will take a corresponding decision on the “sports billion” in its adjustment meeting, said the Vice-Group Chairman of the SPD, Wiebke Esdar, the Editorial network Germany (RND). It is “a huge and completely new nationwide renovation program for the sports facilities in the cities and municipalities,” she added.
The new funding for the renovation, for example from gyms, sports facilities and swimming pools, should be available from the beginning of 2026. The federal government bears the costs alone. According to the SPD, the share of 100 billion euros intended for the federal and state governments for the special infrastructure assets of 100 billion euros.
Household draft provides for expenditure volume of 503 billion euros
The “Sportmilliarde” should set a “powerful sign for sport, municipalities and social cohesion” in the next four years, said SPD politician Thorsten Rudolph. Christian Haase from the CDU sees it similarly: “We support the municipalities in the fact that despite the poor financial situation, they do not have to restrict the on -site sports offer.”
The draft for budget 2025 provides total expenses of 503 billion euros. According to the original submission of Federal Minister of Finance Lars Klingbeil (SPD), the net credit recording should increase from around 39 billion euros in the previous year to 81.8 billion euros.
The budgets for the individual ministries should be advised and decided by this Thursday evening. At noon, the budget of the Federal Ministry of Building had already been approved with a “record for social housing”, said Union politician Haase. Around 23.5 billion euros are planned for this area by 2029.
In addition, the budget for some projects from the Ministry of Development was increased at the cleaning meeting. The UN World Food program receives an additional 22 million euros, as the SPD budget politician Felix Döring announced. Ten million euros were also provided for combating the polio and for development projects for private non -governmental organizations.
