Now it has to be clearer. Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced an “autumn of reforms” by the CDU. There is a lot to do now. There has been a lot of time: only the paralyzing last months of the traffic light coalition, then the coalition negotiations and government formation came, then the immediate program and the summer break. Now the Union and SPD have to think about how they want to reform Germany’s social system. For social affairs, the country now spends more than 1300 billion euros, which is 31.2 percent of economic output. Apart from during the Corona pandemic, the quota was never higher, even at the time of mass unemployment before 2005, the quota never climbed over 30 percent. Now three of the four major social security systems face enormous problems.
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