Overview

• The Generaldebatte on the chancellor’s budget begins at 9:00 with a three-and-a-half-hour slot before individual ministry plans are taken up into the evening.
• AfD co-chair Alice Weidel opens the debate, and Chancellor Friedrich Merz is expected to speak for about 30 minutes on reforms and foreign policy.
• Parliament is scheduled to continue with the Foreign Affairs, Defense, Development, Research, Labor and Health budgets, with the sitting planned until around 21:30.
• Union and SPD lawmakers plan an evening grillfest for their 328 MPs to strengthen cohesion, with roughly 80 percent said to have RSVPed.
• Merz and Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil are expected to attend, and the event follows an August leadership retreat and a tense July Merz–Weidel clash noted by admonitions from Bundestag President Julia Klöckner.