Autumn Symposium 2025
28/November/2025
2:30 - 6 pm
PLACE
BASECAMP, Berlin-Mitte
LANGUAGE
German with simultaneous translation
500 Billion in Debt for the Future? – A First Assessment of Germany’s Investment Package
Lots of debt, little impact? What can be expected from the historic investment package half a year after its adoption – and how can its success be measured?
We’ll explore these questions on November 28 at our high-level event.
When: November 28, 2:30–6:00 p.m.
Where: BASECAMP, Mittelstraße 51, 10117 Berlin
14:30
Warm-Up
15:00
From a debt package to a package for the future – and back?
THOMAS FRICKE (FORUM NEW ECONOMY)
15:05
What impact will the major investment package really have? – An initial assessment
KEYNOTE STEFFEN MEYER (FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE)
DISKUSSION WITH LISA PAUS (B/90 DIE GRÜNEN), ACHIM TRUGER (GERMAN COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EXPERTS; UNIVERSITY DUISBURG/ESSEN), CHRISTINE HERNTIER (MAYOR OF SPREMBERG)
MODERATION: MARK SCHIERITZ (DIE ZEIT)
16:15
Break
16:30
Lost in the struggles of the plains? Monitoring a 500 billion Euro package
JAKOB VON WEIZSÄCKER (FINANCE MINISTER SAARLAND), MICHAEL HÜTHER (IW KÖLN), LAURA KRAUSE (FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE), KATJA RIETZLER (IMK DÜSSELDORF), MIRKO DERPMANN (SCHOLZ & FRIENDS)
18:00
Wrap-Up
Drinks and fingerfood