{"id":2737401,"date":"2026-01-06T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2737401\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:13:23","slug":"germany-plans-record-investments-in-climate-protection-digitisation-scholz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2737401\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany plans record investments in climate protection, digitisation &#8211; Scholz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-testid=\"EagerImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/archive-images.prod.global.a201836.reutersmedia.net\/2021\/11\/11\/LYNXMPEHAA0X4.JPG\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"German acting Finance Minister Olaf Scholz attends a news conference on Germany's tax estimate in Berlin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>German acting Finance Minister Olaf Scholz looks on during a news conference on Germany&#8217;s tax estimate in Berlin, Germany, November 11, 2021. REUTERS\/Annegret Hilse<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; Germany&#8217;s next government can build its future policies on solid public finances thanks to better-than-expected tax revenues and an economic recovery following the pandemic, acting Finance Minister and Chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to continue supporting this trend with record investments in digitisation, scientific research and climate protection,&#8221; Scholz told reporters when presenting the government&#8217;s updated tax revenue estimates.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Riham Alkousaa<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German acting Finance Minister Olaf Scholz looks on during a news conference on Germany&#8217;s tax estimate i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2737402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[784994],"tags":[762772,52896,762734,762783,38674,763978,763285,762815,238274,640758,762733,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-2737401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-dbt","9":"tag-de","10":"tag-europ","11":"tag-ezc","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-gfin","14":"tag-hea","15":"tag-plcy","16":"tag-pol","17":"tag-tax","18":"tag-weu","19":"tag-5326"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/115849042703535659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2737402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}