Published on December 9, 2024 at 8:06 p.m. / Modified on December 9, 2024 at 11:23 p.m.
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The Council of States is much more moderate than the National Council on the development aid budget
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Debates between the two Houses will continue until the end of the parliamentary session
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If no compromise is reached, a conciliation conference will attempt to find a solution
The standoff between the two Houses of Parliament has begun. After the National Council last week, the Council of States began examining the 2025 budget this Monday. The subject heats up the spirits in these years of less fat cows, which complicate the application of the debt brake, this mechanism imposing a balance between expenditure and revenue. The debate continued until late Monday.
From the outset, the Council of States marked its difference from the National Council by making significantly smaller cuts in international cooperation and development aid. He is content with a reduction of 30 million francs compared to the government’s proposal, out of an annual envelope of some 3 billion. He therefore distances himself from the National Council, whose bourgeois majority (The Center, the Liberal-Radical Party and the UDC) took away 250 million from the domain at first reading.
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