German government’s new administration requests additional 208 posts in the budget
The German federal budget committee is expected to approve over 200 additional positions for the newly formed federal government. This information comes from a letter from the Federal Ministry of Finance to the budget committee, reported by POLITICO on Thursday.
The letter states that “to ensure the operational capability of the newly constituted federal government, it is necessary to establish 208 additional planned positions and posts in the ongoing budget execution.” The demand is deemed “unavoidable and cannot be satisfied in any other way”.
The majority of the new positions, 150, will be allocated to the new Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernization. This includes the establishment of a central and a leading department. Forty positions will be created at the Chancellery, with 13 of those in the staff for the future National Security Council.
Eight Chancellery positions will be allocated to the former Chancellor’s office of Olaf Scholz (SPD). This allocation, however, goes beyond the guidelines of the budget committee from 2019. The Ministry of Finance argues that “due to the expected development of his post- chancellor activities, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which fell within his term of office, the personnel support in the proposed amount is, however, necessary”.