Medium-term fiscal-structural plans and annual progress reports
The package of legislation reforming the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact entered into force on 30 April 2024. Under the new rules, euro area member states are required to set out their fiscal and economic policies and show how they are complying with the EU’s fiscal rules by providing medium-term fiscal-structural plans and annual progress reports. The plans and annual progress reports are submitted to the European Commission. Medium-term fiscal-structural plans generally cover a period of four years. The annual progress reports are intended to facilitate further monitoring of compliance with the EU’s fiscal rules.
German Progress Report 2025
The federal cabinet adopted Germany’s 2025 progress report on 16 April 2025.
The progress report focuses on Germany’s fiscal and economic policy, particularly budgetary trends, net expenditure growth and the reforms and measures being implemented by the federal government and the Länder in line with the country-specific recommendations of the Council of the European Union.
Link to the German Progress Report 2025 (in German only)
Overview of documents
You can find the medium-term fiscal-structural plans and annual progress reports of the euro area member states on the European Commission website. Germany will submit its first medium-term fiscal-structural plan as soon as the necessary conditions have been met in the budget preparation process.
Until 2024, euro area member states had to submit updated stability programmes to the ECOFIN Council on an annual basis. All of Germany’s stability programmes from 2000 to 2024 are available here (in German only). The stability programmes as of 2018 are also available here in English.
Draft Budgetary Plan
As part of the EU’s budgetary surveillance, euro area member states are required to submit an updated draft budgetary plan every October. Germany’s draft budgetary plan provides the general government budget projections for the Federation, Länder, local authorities and social security funds based on current planning, as well as the projected net expenditure growth.
German Draft Budgetary Plan 2025
On 15 October 2024, the German Finance Ministry submitted Germany’s draft budgetary plan to the European Commission.
The draft budgetary plan presents the fiscal projections for the budgets of the Federation, Länder, local authorities and social security funds (including their off-budget entities). These projections are made on the basis of current trends and planning, including the draft 2025 federal budget and the financial plan to 2028, both of which were adopted by the federal government on 16 August 2024.
Link to the Draft Budgetary Plan 2025
Overview of documents
All of Germany’s draft budgetary plans since 2013 are available here (in German only). The draft budgetary plans as of 2020 are also available here in English.
You can find the draft budgetary plans of all euro area member states on the European Commission website.