Head of the Chancellor Thorsten Frei (CDU) defends the federal government’s controversial pension package in its current form. He thinks the plan can be approved, “especially because we will then discuss broad reforms in the pension commission,” Frei dem said. Focus. The Commission is expected to make proposals for long-term guarantees on pension provisions in the summer of 2026.
Criticism of the plan is based in part on its formulation Coalition agreement return. “But you have to say that the pension section in the coalition agreement is open to interpretation: the arguments of the SPD and the Youth Group are understandable,” said the CDU politician. Focus.
For days there have been discussions about the possibility of postponing the Bundestag’s vote on the pension package, which was originally planned for December. Among other things, because of resistance from 18 members of the Youth Group in the Union, it was threatened with failure. Specifically, it is about the so-called stop line. This refers to the level of pension security in relation to wages.
The black-red coalition agreed in its coalition agreement to set the pension rate at the current level of at least 48 percent by 2031. This should then be the starting point for further development of pensions, which the Junge Union rejects. Economy Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU) said it had the same arguments against the package, but remained committed to the cabinet’s decision.
Union employee groups support the federal government
However, labor groups in the union support the plan Federal Government placed. Their deputy boss, Kai Whittaker, pointed out Mirror indicates that the content of the bill proposed by Federal Minister of Labor Bärbel Bas (SPD) corresponds to the usual approach. “We did this in the last grand coalition in 2018,” said the CDU politician. Apart from that, this review is planned for 2029.
About 30 young members of the SPD parliamentary group previously criticized the Unity youth group. In a joint paper, they object to accusations that the federal government’s pension concept is unfair across generations. “What the United Youth Group is selling us under ‘intergenerational justice’ is actually a fraudulent label,” he said.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) defended the draft law despite criticism from his own party. “We will form a pension commission this year,” said the Chancellor in the ARD program Report from Berlin. The commission will be managed in such a way that “those who now view things critically are also included.”
