Overview

• The package totals €3.4 billion, including €2.1 billion for municipalities and €280 million for expansion of all-day schooling.
• The state's €1.3 billion share underwrites a renovation offensive to fix critical infrastructure such as roads and bridges to restore the basis for growth.
• A security program creates a population-protection center and upgrades the state fire school into an academy for civil protection and civil defense.
• Climate and coastal protection spending targets dikes, Baltic Sea flood defenses and assets such as the Brunsbüttel pumping station, with the 2040 climate‑neutrality goal reaffirmed.
• Hospitals and social services receive new support, including modernization funding, new swimming halls and 200 additional women’s‑shelter places, as Günther links the plan to rising geopolitical and weather risks.