This is how Merz wants to make business fit – “big pension reform” planned

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) said after the coalition committee, especially the planned depreciation options for companies should be “very quick”. They should grab from this year and then also be possible in 2026 and 2027. The dismantling of bureaucracy and relieved approval procedures also have a priority.

This “creates planning security for the economy in Germany,” emphasized Merz. “The most important thing for us is to overcome this structural weakness in our country.”

After their two and a half hour meeting in the Chancellery, the coalition partners published a four -page paper with more than 60 measures that are considered “priority”. “Until the middle of the year, it should be seen for everyone that Germany is going on,” says the document.

At least some of the measures should be decided in the Federal Council before the summer break in July, said Merz. “It’s going in a feast now.” The Chancellor admitted a number of topics that are expected to employ beyond 2025. He spoke of a “extremely good atmosphere” at the meeting of the coalition partner CDU, CSU and SPD.

The coalition “launched a very ambitious immediate program,” said Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil. It is important “that pace is really coming in now”. People in Germany should see that things changed. “We want to be a coalition of the possible maker.”

Only at a few points there are concrete data for an entry into force in the “immediate program”. The 1st January 2026 is mentioned when lowering VAT for the catering trade, the increase in the commuter flat rate and the reintroduction of the complete agricultural reimbursement for farmers.

According to CSU boss Markus Söder, the black and red federal government also wants to tackle a “large pension package”. This should include the guaranteed pension amount of 48 percent of the average income, the mother’s pension, the active and the so-called early start pension, he said. Söder also praised the discussion atmosphere in the coalition. “Tempo, pace, pace”, the motto common. The first meeting of the coalition committee was a “strong start”.

According to Merz, the establishment laws for the planned special funds “very quickly” are to be launched. It is about the special fund of the federal government for investments in infrastructure and climate protection in the amount of 500 billion euros and the associated special fund for the countries of 100 billion euros.

The coalition partners have also agreed to establish a commission that is intended to advise on a possible voting right reform. The reversal of the right to vote for the first time in February in February was particularly important to the Union.

On Wednesday morning, the Federal Cabinet has already been extended by the extension of the rental price brake and the legal project to tighten migration policy. It is about the two-year suspension of the family reunification for refugees without asylum status and the withdrawal of quick touch after three years.