Overview

• The Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft reports that shifting projects into the SVIK creates roughly €10 billion of budgetary space in transport that the coalition need not save elsewhere.
• For Deutsche Bahn, €18.8 billion are slated from the fund while rail investments in the core budget fall by €13.7 billion, leaving an estimated €8.2 billion of room after equity injections are excluded.
• The study cites further substitutions including €2.5 billion from the fund for autobahn bridge repairs alongside a €1.7 billion cut to federal trunk road investments, broadband moved into the fund (€2.3 billion), and €6 billion for hospitals.
• The Climate and Transformation Fund is set to receive €10 billion annually from the SVIK, and the IW says fund money also eases pressure from social payments such as the Mütterrente.
• The critique follows earlier warnings from the Ifo Institute and the Federal Court of Auditors, as the Bundestag debates the Länder-und-Kommunal law for the €100 billion state‑municipal window with eligibility from €50,000 and approvals due by end‑2036 for funding through 2042.