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Is Reckoning Day Approaching for European Welfare States? - Brussels Report
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Between Minister of Labour Bärbel Bas and Chancellor Friedrich Merz a dispute breaks out as to whether the state will continue to be able to pay the existing social benefits. An overview.
Is Reckoning Day approaching for European Welfare States? - Brussels Report
A cornered welfare state may make some authoritarian moves At the end of last month, Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, Western Europe’s leading economy, stated bluntly at a conference of his Christian Democratic Union party that “the welfare state that we have today can no longer be financed with what we produce in the economy.” According to the Wall Street Journal, he thereby expressed “the Unspeakable”, a “taboo in modern Western demo…
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