Reform autumn: Social reforms: Linnemann relies on an agenda 2030

CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann has called on the federal government for drastic social reforms based on the model of the former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. “If the SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil praises Mr. Schröder for his courageous reforms at Agenda 2010, then we should start there,” said Linnemann the “Bild am Sonntag”.

In view of the situation, the government has no choice. “Just as Gerhard Schröder did the Agenda 2010, we now have to do the 2030 Agenda. It is that simple,” said the Secretary General.

He described it as a “core problem in Germany” that 73 percent of Germans had no trust in the state’s solution competence. A corresponding result recently resulted in the recent citizen survey of public service of the DBB civil servant. The survey result is in the middle of the mark, said Linnemann. “This shows that we stand with our backs to the wall and now have to deliver.”

In Germany, a time window is now open for the first time after 20 years, in which the majority of the Germans say that it cannot go on. “It should be an incentive for us to use this time window. There was a lot of talk about the social security systems, about the train, about the bureaucracy. Now we have to prove that we are doing it.”

Klingbeil had already referred to Schröder

In March 2003, the then Chancellor Schröder announced in-depth labor market and social reforms in response to an economic dry spell and high unemployment under the title Agenda 2010. At that time, the SPD and Greens ruled. Many SPD voters took the hard cuts to the party for a long time that brought the new Hartz IV system with it.

SPD boss Klingbeil had referred to the reforms of the Agenda 2010 before Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) and told the “Zeit”: “Schröder has tackled brave reforms.” Even today, extensive reforms are necessary “so that our welfare state remains strong, but also affordable and works better”.