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Citizen's allowance only with payment card: As with asylum seekers - does the CDU want to abolish cash?
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Citizen's allowance only with payment card: As with asylum seekers - does ...
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Citizen's allowance to go? CDU plans "drastic cuts" after just three months: Citizen's income is one of the most hotly debated topics. CDU Secretary General ...
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Citizen's allowance to go? CDU plans
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“Really unleashing forces”: Habeck approaches Lindner on corporate taxes: They don't really get along: Finance Minister Lindner and Economics Minister Habeck ...
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“Really unleashing forces”: Habeck approaches Lindner on corporate taxes
Quick Glance: Dispute over Corporate Taxes: Habeck vs. Lindner
  • Habeck and Lindner dispute over tax relief for companies

  • Economic Minister Habeck seeks to discuss tax relief for companies with Finance Minister Lindner
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Frank words: Sebastian Ebel's recommendations to politicians: Digitalization, bureaucracy and citizens' money. TUI boss Sebastian Ebel recognizes deficits in all ...
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Frank words: Sebastian Ebel's recommendations to politicians
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CDU General Secretary Linnemann: “We will be the first to abolish citizens’ money”
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CDU General Secretary Linnemann: “We will be the first to abolish ...
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Work ethic: a very lazy story: We hear everywhere that Germans are too lazy and need to work harder again. This is nothing more than a fatal moralization of ...
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Work ethic: a very lazy story
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German application forms can be quite challenging, but at the same time state support services are becoming increasingly important for many people ... Show more
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Pensions should continue to rise and Ukrainians should continue to receive citizen's benefits. Despite empty coffers, SPD politician and Labor Minister ... Show more

Labor Minister Heil gives a social guarantee: “We will not cut benefits that citizens are entitled to”
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Federal Finance Minister Lindner announces at "maybrit illner" that there will be zero round of citizens' benefit for the coming year.
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Vouchers instead of money: top economist Raffelhüschen calls for a radical change in citizens' money
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Vouchers instead of money: top economist Raffelhüschen calls for a radical ...
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Social benefits for refugees: FDP politician wants benefits for Ukrainians at asylum seeker level
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Social benefits for refugees: FDP politician wants benefits for Ukrainians ...
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Citizens' money: How the Greens fight fake news with fake news - Business Punk: An official response from the federal government to citizens' money makes the ...
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Citizens' money: How the Greens fight fake news with fake news - Business ...
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Hidden poverty: Millions of Germans go without social benefits: Whether citizen's benefit, child allowance or basic security in old age: experts estimate that ...
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Hidden poverty: Millions of Germans go without social benefits
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Aiwanger celebrated - “The Hubsi” drives up in the tractor: During farmers' protests, politicians are usually booed. Not so at a rally on Sunday at the ...
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Aiwanger celebrated - “The Hubsi” drives up in the tractor
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Spahn wants tougher sanctions for citizens' benefits: Jens Spahn is calling for the constitution to be amended in order to cut off money for job refusers ...
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Spahn wants tougher sanctions for citizens' benefits
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Boris Rhein is putting pressure on migration policy ahead of the Minister Presidents' Conference. In an interview, he reveals what he wants from Chancellor ... Show more

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Cosmetic repairs? No, the Citizen's Income needs to be fundamentally overhauled: Stricter sanctions against those who refuse to work are the right thing to do ...
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Cosmetic repairs? No, the Citizen's Income needs to be fundamentally ...
Quick Glance: Basic Income: Overhaul Needed, Not Cosmetic Repairs
  • Federal Minister of Labor Heil (SPD) plans to cut off payments for basic income recipients who refuse to take a job for up to two months

  • Those who could work but choose not to will no longer receive basic income

  • The draft for the basic income reform could have come directly from Heil's desk

  • Not all basic income recipients use tricks to avoid working
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Economic policy: Robert Habeck advocates tax relief for companies: According to the Federal Minister of Economics, corporate taxation in Germany is no longer ...
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Economic policy: Robert Habeck advocates tax relief for companies
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Changes to citizen's benefit 2024 have been decided: those who will now receive nothing
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Changes to citizen's benefit 2024 have been decided: those who will now ...
Quick Glance: Bürgergeld 2024: Cuts for Job Refusal
  • Jobcenters can cut Bürgergeld for up to two months if job offers are rejected.

  • Bundeskabinett approves tightening of Bürgergeld regulations.

  • Planned regulation expected to save 170 million euros per year.

  • Controversial reform plans to increase sanctions for Bürgergeld recipients.
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Politicians like Christian Lindner are trying to make a name for themselves by attacking recipients of citizen's allowance as supposedly refusing to work ... Show more

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Budget talk at Maischberger: Lindner: Farmers are not interested in agricultural diesel
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Budget talk at Maischberger: Lindner: Farmers are not interested in ...
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Does citizen’s money keep its promises?: Labor Minister Heil is planning sanctions for those who refuse to work. The introduction of citizens' money a year ago ...
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Does citizen’s money keep its promises?
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Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to completely cancel citizens' money for "total refusers". Resistance is forming in the youth associations of the SPD and ... Show more
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CDU politician Jens Spahn wants to abolish the citizen's allowance for people who refuse to work. Social organizations see this as populism: t-online.de/-/100321416
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Citizens' money debate in Brandenburg: Minister of Social Affairs Nonnemacher criticizes Woidke
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Citizens' money debate in Brandenburg: Minister of Social Affairs ...
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Jusos criticize reform plans for citizens' money: Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to tighten sanctions on citizens' money. Criticism of the move comes not ...
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Jusos criticize reform plans for citizens' money
Quick Glance: Criticism of Labor Minister Heil's Citizen's Income Reform Plans
  • Union and FDP welcome tightening of sanctions for citizen's income

  • Jusos criticize Labor Minister Heil's plans to tighten citizen's income sanctions

  • Heil proposes to tighten sanctions for citizen's income recipients who reject job offers

  • Citizen's income replaces the former unemployment benefit II and increases from 2023/2024
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Dispute over citizens' money: The CSU wants to impose stricter sanctions on “total objectors”
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Dispute over citizens' money: The CSU wants to impose stricter sanctions ...
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Citizen's income: THIS is supposed to help against food inflation - "No longer comprehensible"
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Citizen's income: THIS is supposed to help against food inflation -
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What are the benefits of stricter citizen's allowance sanctions?: Minister of Labor Heil wants tougher sanctions for some recipients of citizen's allowance ...
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What are the benefits of stricter citizen's allowance sanctions?
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Citizens' benefit cut: Woidke receives strong criticism: Reactions range from bewilderment to accusations of opportunism. Brandenburg's Prime Minister Woidke ...
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Citizens' benefit cut: Woidke receives strong criticism
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Citizens' money, farmers' protests, opposition work: CDU Bundestag member Dieter Stier: "For me, the firewall against the AfD is rock solid"
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Citizens' money, farmers' protests, opposition work: CDU Bundestag member ...
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The chairman of the Left Party, Schirdewan, criticizes the proposal by Federal Minister of Labour Heil to temporarily cut off support for recipients of ... Show more
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The German Student Union has called for BAföG rates to be continuously adjusted in line with income and price trends.
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Heidelberg declaration: CDU plans to move away from citizens' money: More pressure on the unemployed in the welfare system and higher benefits for contributors - ...
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Heidelberg declaration: CDU plans to move away from citizens' money
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En el debate sobre la renta de ciudadanía, el líder del grupo parlamentario del FDP, Christian Dürr, defiende los planes del ministro de Trabajo ... Show more
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Entrepreneurs demand: Anyone who works more than 40 hours should not pay taxes: The desire for a 4-day week is growing. But given the German economic situation ...
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Entrepreneurs demand: Anyone who works more than 40 hours should not pay ...
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Citizens' money: CSU calls for THESE radical measures against total objectors: This year, citizens' benefit recipients will receive 12 percent more money ...
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Citizens' money: CSU calls for THESE radical measures against total ...
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Christian Lindner: Traffic light communication is difficult: At the start of budget week, FDP leader and Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner speaks about ...
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Christian Lindner: Traffic light communication is difficult
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Linnemann follows up on the abolition of citizens' money: “That's a crazy name”: CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann had made a radical reform of citizens' ...
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Linnemann follows up on the abolition of citizens' money: “That's a crazy ...
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Ugh, what else is going to happen next?!
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Coalition in 2024: Where the next traffic light dispute threatens: Basic child protection, migration, citizens' income - the coalition will still face many ...
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Coalition in 2024: Where the next traffic light dispute threatens
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The problem is Olaf - how the chancellor messed up the new start: "Making Germany better and moving it forward" - that was Olaf Scholz's promise at the beginning ...
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The problem is Olaf - how the chancellor messed up the new start
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Union: Ampel is living massively beyond its means with its budget: The final talks to approve the 2024 budget are underway - and there is massive criticism from ...
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Union: Ampel is living massively beyond its means with its budget
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Next year: Finance Minister Lindner expects a zero round for citizens' benefit recipients
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Next year: Finance Minister Lindner expects a zero round for citizens' ...
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Nahles rejects criticism of citizens' money: “It's the lowest since 2015.”: The head of the Federal Employment Agency, Andrea Nahles, does not believe that the ...
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Nahles rejects criticism of citizens' money: “It's the lowest since 2015.”
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Citizens' Money: The Facts: Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to cut citizens' benefits for those who refuse to work for up to two months and thus save 150 ...
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Citizens' Money: The Facts
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FDP politician demands: No aid for China and India, austerity measures for all ministries
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FDP politician demands: No aid for China and India, austerity measures for ...
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Citizen's income increase from 2024 "a slap in the face for every employee": The low-wage sector criticizes the increase in the citizen's income in the new year ...
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Citizen's income increase from 2024
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Does the German welfare state stop people from working? Yes, but not the lazy, but the hard-working. What this has to do with the citizen's income.
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Carsten Linnemann about Björn Höcke: "A Nazi": General Secretary Carsten Linnemann speaks in an interview with Stern about the reconstruction of the CDU ...
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Carsten Linnemann about Björn Höcke:
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Labor market: How the German welfare state punishes performance: Transfer benefits such as citizens' benefit and housing benefit as well as the tax system are ...
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Labor market: How the German welfare state punishes performance
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Spahn calls for longer working hours - sanctions for citizens' income "too tame": Germans lack money. Jens Spahn brings up a way to earn more - and criticizes ...
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Spahn calls for longer working hours - sanctions for citizens' income
Quick Glance: Jens Spahn Calls for Refugee Redistribution to Ghana and Rwanda
  • To combat the migration crisis, Jens Spahn urges the relocation of all refugees from the EU to Ghana and Rwanda.

  • The Ampel government saves and adheres to the debt brake, but Germany is expected to remain the world champion of saving.

  • Robert Habeck and the Ampel aim for a green support republic to address the growth problem.

  • It is necessary to bring refugees to a safe third country outside the EU to stop irregular entry.
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Federal Government: The traffic lights are changing from a progress alliance to a cave-in coalition
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Federal Government: The traffic lights are changing from a progress ...
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You should be able to answer these four questions when discussing citizen's money - Business Punk
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Saving on the Citizen's Income? How pathetic!: Comment: Cancelling the citizens' income increase would cost us all dearly.
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Saving on the Citizen's Income? How pathetic!
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Employment Agency: No change to the increase in citizen's allowance possible: Due to the budget crisis, the FDP and CDU/CSU had demanded that the citizens' ...
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Employment Agency: No change to the increase in citizen's allowance ...
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Citizens' money savings plucked out of thin air? Criticism of Minister Heil: There is criticism of the planned cuts in citizens' benefits: the Ministry of Labor ...
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Citizens' money savings plucked out of thin air? Criticism of Minister ...
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“The 2024 standard rate will be reviewed”: Lindner advocates a cut in citizens’ benefits
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“The 2024 standard rate will be reviewed”: Lindner advocates a cut in ...
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“The balance is not right”: Söder wants to readjust citizens’ money in the Federal Council
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“The balance is not right”: Söder wants to readjust citizens’ money in the ...
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“You should know that that doesn’t work”: Lindner wants to cut citizens’ money – and receives criticism
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“You should know that that doesn’t work”: Lindner wants to cut citizens’ ...
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Linnemann (CDU): Citizens' money system is going in the wrong direction: CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann is calling for tougher rules for citizens' money ...
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Linnemann (CDU): Citizens' money system is going in the wrong direction
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SPD leader Esken: "Could have a wonderful time with citizen's income" - Video: On January 1, 2024, the more than five million citizens' income recipients in ...
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SPD leader Esken:
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Budget: How the federal government wants to plug the budget hole: The coalition presents its austerity package. It includes, among other things ...
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Budget: How the federal government wants to plug the budget hole
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Hubertus Heil's sanctions on citizens' money: He should know better: Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to cut off citizens’ money for “total refusers” ...
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Hubertus Heil's sanctions on citizens' money: He should know better
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In the budget crisis, the traffic lights are fighting over three crucial points: Will the coalition soon agree on what the 2024 budget will look like and whether ...
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In the budget crisis, the traffic lights are fighting over three crucial ...
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Fleischhauer: My friend's story shows how crazy the welfare state is: A salary check shows which professions can no longer keep up with the citizen's income: ...
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Fleischhauer: My friend's story shows how crazy the welfare state is