CDU leadership rejects improvements to pension at 63
Updated 3 months ago2 new reports, including DER SPIEGEL, WELT.
The short version
The CDU leadership under Thorsten Frei rejects improvements to the planned pension reform. Three East German CDU Prime Ministers had previously called for the retention of the deduction-free pension after 45 years of contributions. The reform is thus facing a blockade.
Union parliamentary group leader Thorsten Frei rejected negotiations on improvements to the pension reform.5,9 Three East German CDU Prime Ministers had called for the retention of the deduction-free pension after 45 years of contributions.1,2 Frei warned that the reform would fail if the Prime Minister's demands were implemented.5,9
Employer President Steffen Kampeter criticized the resistance to the reform and described it as unrealistic.10 Pension expert Bernd Raffelhüschen described the abbreviation-free pension as expensive, unsystematic and not generationally appropriate.7 CDU politician Wolfgang Bosbach warned against the costs of the deductible pension and called for a financing solution.9
Jacques Schuster, editor-in-chief of WELT AM SONNTAG, saw the demands above all as campaign tactics.8 SPD Labour Minister Bärbel Bas was open to talks about the reform.1 Freely relativized demands for a woman as successor to the Federal President and did not confine themselves to female candidates.4
Frei stressed that steps must also be taken that are not fully supported in order not to jeopardise the reform package.3 The resistance to the reform comes mainly from East German federal states, where the CDU governs.6,2
“In my view, this is populism aimed at preventing imminent electoral defeats.”
“If the central building block is removed, the necessary reform work will be put at risk.”
“Basically, the entire government would no longer be a reform government.”
Why it matters
The deduction-free pension after 45 contribution years allows insured persons to retire at the age of 63 without financial loss.1,5
The planned pension reform provides for the abolition or severe restriction of the deduction-free pension after 45 years of contributions.1,5
The CDU is involved in the government in several eastern German states, including Saxony-Anhalt under Prime Minister Sven Schulze.6
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