Bundestag: Merz is making citizens to profound changes

Chancellor Friedrich Merz sets the people in Germany to profound reforms. “The decisions that lie ahead of us do not go to details, but they are about very fundamental,” said the CDU boss in the general debate about the chancellor budget in the Bundestag. “It is no longer about and no less than about the future of our country – how we live, how we live together, how we work, how we do business, and whether our values ​​continue to exist,” he added.

Freedom is threatened, the citizens felt a growing uncertainty that the German economic model was under pressure under “a new protectionism that is directed against free trade and open markets”. In addition, the cohesion is questioned by political forces at home and abroad that made democracy contemptuous, sowing and wanting to divide society and the government.

However, the coalition “has the festivals and the common will to face these realities,” emphasized Merz. “We will maintain our freedom, secure prosperity and enable new cohesion in our society,” he added. CDU, CSU and SPD would do this out of responsibility for Germany, “in common and with an equally great determination to put the right path on this signal of our country”.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) has spoken out for extensive reforms in the pension system. “We also have to reorganize our pension system,” said Merz on Wednesday in the Bundestag budget debate. He justified this with the demographic change that young people should not be added additionally.

Therefore, “the generation contract must be rethought again in the pension,” said the Chancellor. Furthermore, however, “the older generation for her work she has done must be able to enjoy her well -deserved retirement in economic certainty,” he assured. However, Merz did not give specific measures for this.

SPD parliamentary group leader Matthias Miersch has asked for a greater participation of large assets in the debate on the financing of the welfare state. “The big, wide shoulders, the large, large fortune have to participate more in this country,” said Miersch. “This is also part of justice.” He also referred to an upcoming decision by the Constitutional Court, which could make an argument with inheritance tax necessary anyway.

Most recently, Union faction leader Jens Spahn also described the unequal distribution of assets in Germany as a problem. “If you already had, you have more and more,” he said. Miersch also confessed to changes in the welfare state: “I say very clearly: we stand by the reforms. We need reforms.”

Green Group leader Katharina Dröge, however, criticized the black and red federal government violently for her politics. “They forget the German middle class over and over again,” she accused Chancellor Friedrich Merz. As promised, the electricity tax must decrease for everyone. In addition, by pressure on the EU Commission, Merz had to answer an unfavorable trade deal with US President Donald Trump.

The Federal Government does not use the money from the billions of special funds for infrastructure and climate protection that are not useful. The government stuffed household holes with the means. “You don’t have too little money, you just give it the wrong one,” said Dröge. “Nothing is more expensive in this coalition than the CSU.” There are billions for the election promises of CSU boss Markus Söder. Dröge wanted to know whether this is a “standstill bonus” for Söder.

AfD boss Alice Weidel accused Merz a lack of reform will and breaking election promises. “The result of reform refusal and the CDU conveying in series is a cobbled, irresponsible household without measure and goal that does not solve a single problem,” said Weidel on Wednesday in the general debate in the Bundestag. The result is “even larger holes in the household,” continued Weidel.

The “Autumn of Reforms, which is awarded by Merz, becomes autumn of empty words and will lead to the winter of even higher expenses,” continued Weidel. Merz “broke every election promise,” said Weidel. It called, for example, compliance with the debt brake, the reduction in electricity tax, the return to nuclear power, the citizens’ reform and the abolition of the ban on combustion. The AfD party and parliamentary group leader also accused the federal government an ineffective migration policy. Weidel called for a “binding of social benefits to the minimum deposit duration”. Citizens’ money for Ukrainian refugees must be canceled.

Left-wing faction leader Heidi Reichinnek has accused the government of making politics at the expense of the weakest in society. The announced “autumn of reforms” will “” nothing more than an autumn of social cruelty, “said Reichinnek on Wednesday at the general debate about the budget in the Bundestag. She called for wealthy “fair in the financing of the community”. While the government for upgrading and “tax gifts for large corporations” provides billions, funds for education, climate protection or health are “no longer”, said Reichinnek. The Union also “has been working on the citizens’ money for months” and apparently looking for “scapegoats instead of solutions”.

The government’s strategy should be said: “Yes, we see you feel bad, but we make sure that someone else is doing worse,” said the left-wing parliamentary group leader. “What kind of cynical, disgusting policy that you do there?” What the government wants to sell as justice is “nothing more than poor hatred,” said Reichinnek.