In light of the current flood disaster in Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland, the Christian Democratic parliamentary group CDU/CSU in the Bundestag has called for the German government to support the federal states and local authorities in flood protection – but has rejected a „joint task“ between the federal government and the federal states on this matter. German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke and the Conference of Environment Ministers of the federal states have repeatedly called for such a regulation, which would require an amendment to the Basic Law. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group also proposed it in 2022.