Retirement negotiations: CFTC displays annoyance

At the end of the sixth meeting on pension schemes on Thursday, the representative of the Christian power station, Léonard Guillemot, said that he no longer understood the meaning of the discussions. "The boat does not take water but we are a little on a drunk boat anyway," he says.

CDU and SPD promise stable pensions, but one detail gives rise to criticism. The planned recalculation could disadvantage pensioners, warns an expert.

Union and SPD continue to work on their coalition agreement. In pension policy they agree on many things. Nevertheless, there are frictions.

Employer President Rainer Dulger warned the Union and SPD against additional burdens on pension insurance. "If SPD and Union continue along the path taken, the pension contributions will become unaffordable," said Dulger to the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). "We cannot continue like this if the future generations do not want to overburden," the BDA boss continued. "I strongly plead for a strengthening of the second and third pillars, i.e.…