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Chancellor Merz Says Welfare 'Cuts' Needed as Germany Pays €46.9b in Basic Income - Ghana Business News

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a joint press conference at the Federal Chancellery. Photo: Soeren Stache/dpa In 2024, Germany paid out around €46.9 billion ($54.3 billion) in basic income support to around 5.5 million beneficiaries. The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is therefore calling for reforms in the country’s social benefits system because it is becoming unaffordable. On Saturday he stressed the need for major reforms to socia…

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The German Chancellor has publicly denounced the insatiability of the social state in current forms. The objective will be to cut costs without increasing taxes, but the coalition partners require ‘creative solutions’.

·Portugal
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After the Federal Chancellor has called for changes to the citizens' money, the German Social Association criticises Merz as destroying the foundations of cohesion.

·Germany
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Center

The black and red coalition wants to tackle several major changes in the welfare state in the autumn. The chancellor is determined to do so - and is also preparing for noticeable effects.

The black and red coalition wants to tackle several major changes in the welfare state in the autumn. The chancellor is determined to do so - and is also preparing for noticeable effects.

Center

After a week full of foreign policy appointments, Friedrich Merz takes over the welfare state again at the CDU-Landesparteitag in NRW. Germany can no longer afford the current system.

·Berlin, Germany
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In a speech in NRW, Chancellor Merz voted in favour of severe cuts in social expenditure. The current system is too expensive. Reforms are urgently needed, for example, in the form of civic money or more incentives for working in old age.

·Hamburg, Germany
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berliner-sonntagsblatt.de broke the news in on Saturday, August 30, 2025.
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