CDU proclaims fast program in case of takeover of presidency | EUROtoday

CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann has introduced a direct program that may take impact shortly after new elections and a doable takeover of presidency by the CDU. One of the primary factors he talked about to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” was the “abolition of citizens’ money in its current form”. Instead, a “new basic security” will likely be launched that not solely promotes but in addition calls for.

“Anyone who can work but doesn’t go to work signals to the state that they are not needy. Then he will no longer receive social benefits in the future,” Linnemann instructed the newspaper. A six-figure variety of persons are affected.

Pensioners must also profit from an “active pension” as a measure from the fast program. Anyone who has reached statutory retirement age and desires to proceed working voluntarily ought to be “allowed to earn additional money tax-free up to an amount of, for example, 2,000 euros per month”. This will activate lots of of hundreds.

Linnemann introduced a number of additional modifications below a CDU authorities. There ought to due to this fact be cuts for refugees from Ukraine. “We are setting the wrong incentives, including through the citizen’s money that refugees from Ukraine immediately receive. “I am therefore in favor of the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act also applying to Ukraine refugees from a certain date,” mentioned the CDU politician.

“The bottom line is that we have to get towards 50 billion euros and more”

The cuts within the federal funds are anticipated to quantity to 10 billion euros a 12 months, and ten billion extra a 12 months are to be saved by a stricter migration coverage. “The bottom line is that we have to get towards 50 billion euros and more, on the one hand to ensure the country’s defense capability and to relieve those who pull the cart in this country,” mentioned the CDU politician, who was chargeable for the occasion’s primary program. Linnemann additionally made a promise to keep up the debt brake: “The federal debt brake is cemented.”

Surprisingly, Linnemann additionally introduced a brand new push for the failed TTIP free commerce settlement. “I could certainly imagine that there will be a new attempt for a transatlantic trade agreement under Friedrich Merz and Donald Trump, in collaboration with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, after the failure of TTIP,” mentioned Linnemann. A brand new free commerce settlement would encourage each continents.

He clearly rejected the emergency funds deliberate by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). “That is not necessary at the moment,” mentioned Linnemann. The belief is gone. “Every day that this chancellor stays in office is a bad day for Germany,” mentioned Linnemann. Germany’s enterprise mannequin is “in the greatest danger it has ever been in.”