What Pension Reform Means for the Economy and the Location of Germany
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Westfalenpost
The Merz government wants to create growth with the new regulation. At the pension of 63, the chancellor and the finance minister approach.
The Merz government wants to create growth with the new regulation. At the pension of 63 chancellor and finance minister are looking for a rapprochement.
With these words, Labour Minister Schweitzer gives an interim opinion on pension reform. The rest will be clarified "strongly in dialogue" among the coalition partners. Chancellor Merz has already formulated a deadline.
So far, the chancellor promised the major pension reform by the end of the year. Now the most important part of the plans is stalled. What is behind the scenes?
In a speech to the Chamber of Commerce, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz suddenly changed his schedule for the decision of the share pension in the cabinet: an agreement should not come until 2027. Originally Merz had promised once that his pension reform would enter into force at the beginning of 2027.
Berlin, 4 November 2026. According to media reports, chancellor Friedrich Merz buried the pension reform in Berlin in essential respects before the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK): The entry into the capital cover, the heart of the reform, is now not to be decided as planned this year in the cabinet, but only presented by the responsible Federal Ministry in the form of "Eckpunkt" [...] The contribution Germany cannot allow itself any furt…
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