Germany: Will pensions standoff bring Merz's government into question?

Berliner Morgenpost

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18 Members of the European Union are blocking the pension package. They warn against billions of dollars and demand intergenerational justice. Who is behind it?

focus.de

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Friedrich Merz smashed a lot of porcelain at the Junge Union on the weekend, but the idea that a pensioner's party of all things fails due to actual pension increases is naive.

Frankfurter Allgemeine

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The Union is arguing about the pension package. The Young Union is rebelling, 18 Members do not want to agree with the law in the Bundestag. What are they about?

der Standard AT

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The Young Union rebels against the pension package, but the SPD does not want to renegotiate

Der Tagesspiegel

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More than a dozen members of the Union want to prevent the pension package from black and red. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure like never before – and also counters with irony and a portion of ridicule.

kreiszeitung.de

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How to get out of the pension dispute? Merz tries to get the situation under control: But in the Union there is probably also a way out of the government in the room.