+ BLOCK 0 ++ “The CDU has to take off its kid gloves” – JU boss Winkel requires more durable remedy of the SPD | EUROtoday

In the dispute over social reforms, Junge Union chief Johannes Winkel has known as on his occasion management to barter extra confrontationally with the SPD. “The CDU has to take off its kid gloves here,” stated the Bundestag member to “Focus”. “I expect the party leadership to negotiate hard with the SPD and demand clear reforms in the interests of intergenerational justice,” demanded the CDU politician. “We have to set the course now to cope with demographic change.”

Winkel continued to demand that the SPD should open its eyes to demographic change. “It is already foreseeable today that it will pose insoluble challenges for our national finances in the 2030s if we do not act decisively now.” Winkel warned that fewer and fewer workers must pay for increasingly pensions: “This won’t work well without reforms.”

A couple of days in the past, Winkel had known as on his coalition accomplice to not oppose cuts within the social system. “In the domestic policy debate, we have twice come very far towards the SPD, with the special fund for infrastructure and the pension package. That is why the expectation of the SPD is that extensive reforms will follow these financial advances this year,” he just lately advised the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”.

With “clear priorities” it can save you “tens of billions a year on social benefits, some of which no one needs and some of which people don’t even want,” says Winkel.

Last 12 months, members of the Young Group within the Bundestag threatened to dam a package deal to stabilize pension ranges for a number of weeks. The Union shouldn’t repeatedly make advance funds and hope that the SPD will likely be prepared to reform, it stated in a posting by Winkel on X.