Katharina Dröge, the Green parliamentary group leader, keeps the option of taking the federal budget to the Federal Constitutional Court open. She told several newspapers of the Bavaria media group that the government is not acting in accordance with what the constitution requires. Dröge explained that the Greens had fought hard to secure a rule that money from the special fund may only be added on top of existing allocations-a rule that the current administration is not implementing.
Because of this, the Greens are considering a legal challenge in Karlsruhe, although the procedure is legally complicated. Dröge stressed that the party prefers to shape policy through the exchange of arguments, not through litigation. Nevertheless, the potential for a lawsuit remains a useful pressure lever against the CDU/CSU and SPD. The Greens’ stance has attracted widespread support, even from conservative entrepreneurs who claim they can no longer understand the Union’s fiscal policy.