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.
Medium-term fiscal-structural plan
On 16 July 2025, the federal cabinet adopted the German medium-term fiscal-structural plan for the years from 2025 to 2029. This is Germany’s first medium-term fiscal-structural plan. It includes a fiscal commitment for the years from 2025 to 2029 that is expressed in terms of maximum permissible growth rates for net nationally financed primary expenditure (“net expenditure path”).
The medium-term fiscal-structural plan is an integrated report on the German government’s fiscal and economic policies. It describes the government’s fiscal and economic strategy for complying with the net expenditure path. This strategy includes fiscal-structural measures, investments and reforms that aim in particular to address common EU priorities and country-specific recommendations.
Download Germany’s medium-term fiscal-structural plan
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 2026
On 15 October 2025, the German Finance Ministry submitted Germany’s draft budgetary plan to the European Commission.
Germany’s 2026 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) on the basis of current trends and planning. The projections take account of information up to 1 September 2025. The figures for 2024 and 2025 have been updated from the figures that were provided in the 2025 German Progress Report of 16 April 2025.
Link to the Draft Budgetary Plan 2026
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.