The background is a draft budget for 2025, which the Federal Minister of Finance Lars Clungbale (SPD) represented two weeks ago. It has a budget for humanitarian aid – that is, money for extraordinary money for crisis regions – is reduced by 53 percent compared to the budget compared to the previous year. 1.19 billion euros should be saved. In 2025, only 1.04 billion euros were available. This is the lowest cost in ten years, writes the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The coalition agreement of the end of April said: “We will strengthen humanitarian aid” and check “a stronger obligation after the failure of other donors in important areas”.
Meanwhile, UN organizations warn of the consequences of abbreviations. The United States, which funded about 45 percent of humanitarian aid, completely responded under US President Donald Trump and left a billion hooks. At the same time, almost all donors countries have reduced emergency funds and development funds in recent years.
In its last report, the United Nations Extraordinary Assistance Office (OCHA) also raises the alarm around the world from the subtitle “brutal mathematics of auxiliary abbreviations”: from the reduction of at least 79 million those in need will no longer receive help. The UN organization warns of the millions of those who died as a direct consequence of abbreviations. The World Food Program expects that 16 million people will be able to provide life for life this year. UN children’s assistance in providing assistance to Unayseph warned that from the reduction of 14 million children suffering from hunger, they could no longer put it.
And wants to set priorities more in case of assistance
Also scientists in the journal Lancet If deaths are predicted in millions until 2030, it should remain with a reduction planned only by the United States for 2025.
About 12,000 contracts with humanitarian assistants have already been terminated. At least 22 organizations had to completely close the offices, the UN report said. The Emergency Assistance Office announces that in the future humanitarian aid will be priorities. It is concentrated in the most severe crisis areas, including Sudan, Gaza, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Afghanistan and Dr. Congo.
The UN Secretary for Humanitarian Assistance Tom Fletcher says in the preface of the report: “Six months after ruthless priority for the most in need, we should cost less and fewer funds, while the world around us is in fire.” More life will be destroyed as a result of wars and the disasters associated with climate and killed, wounded and imprisoned their employees, “simply because they are trying to save their lives.”
The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains in the internal document to follow this priority. “This is especially difficult and will remain insufficient, because in recent years the German interests in the security of the German language,” he continues. For example, this is a place in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan.
“In addition, natural disasters, such as droughts, floods, floods and hurricanes, increase as a result of a climatic crisis,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in the report. This predicts an increase in hunger, escape, but also spreads epidemics. At the request, the Federal Foreign Department said: “We, as a rule, do not comment on the alleged leaks.”
Left requirements are more funds
The housekeeping of 2025 has not yet been decided, on Wednesday the Bundestag advises it, after which the work in the committees continues. Michael Hearbst, the head of the Association of Auxiliary and Development of the Autenro organizations, criticizes: “Reducing humanitarian aid will cost human life, because urgently necessary assistance cannot be provided.” He calls for an “instant change from the federal government”.
Criticism also comes from the opposition. The press secretary of the global justice of the left faction of Charlotte Neuhauser said that TAZ: After the United States said goodbye to international solidarity: “Germany is part of the financing problem. Most of the third country in the world are hundreds of billions for tanks, missiles and drones, more important than help for hundreds of thousands of needy people. ” Enough money is enough, just distributed is unfair. Die Linke in Bundestag requires that “Germany will finally retain its word in money,” said Neuhauser.
