As of: January 20, 2024, 5:03 a.m
By: Franziska Schwarz
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Ricarda Lang (archive photo) now knows a new figure for the average pension from Markus Lanz.
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Green Party leader Ricarda Lang misjudged the pension – by a wide margin.
The general secretary of the NRW CDU finds the reactions to this excessive.
Berlin – The average German receives a pension of around 2,000 euros, believes Ricarda Lang – at least until recently.
This was worth reporting in many newspapers.
“Millions of retirees would probably dance with happiness in the streets if they came up with such an amount,” mocked the
Badische Zeitung
, for example .
The average pension for the average German is significantly lower.
Why doesn't the Green Party leader know this?
In any case, the notoriously irritable Internet community reacted to Lang's pension statement on "Markus Lanz" in a less civilized manner than the newspaper commentators.
Now a politician from the largest opposition party has joined her.
A nice move, given that the Union is already hoping for new elections given the traffic light policy: the CDU with Friedrich Merz, and also the CSU with Markus Söder.
Pension shitstorm: Paul Ziemiak joins Ricarda Lang – “People...”
Paul Ziemiak, General Secretary of the NRW CDU, emphasized on Platform X that Lang had “indisputably” given the wrong number.
However, the outrage over this is disproportionate.
Lang's critics should apply “the same standards” to themselves.
he said:
Pension in Germany: Plans of the traffic light coalition, plans of the CDU
With regard to pensions, the CDU advocates “mandatory funded pension provision” in its basic program.
In addition, the party's “active pension” concept stipulates that anyone who wants to continue working voluntarily after reaching statutory retirement age should have their salary tax-free up to a certain amount.
Merz also wants to link the retirement age to life expectancy.
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The traffic light coalition, however, decided at the beginning of the month that it wanted to reduce the annual subsidy for statutory pension insurance.
The coalition is calculating annual savings of 600 million euros by 2027. The German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), among others, criticized the planned interventions to restructure the budget.
ZDF journalist Lanz asks Green Party leader Lang about the average pension
Lanz asked Lang in his ZDF talk show on January 16th: “Do you know roughly: How high is the average pension in Germany?” Lang replied: “I actually don’t know the average pension.” When Lanz asked whether Lang had an idea, she replied: “No, actually not a specific one.”
When asked by the moderator about the approximate amount, Lang replied: “I would assume that we are around 2,000 euros.” Lanz then put the average pension at 1,543 euros, to which Lang replied: “That is a bit lower. In response to Lanz's query, “After 45 years of work.
Is that fair?” Lang replied “No”.
(frs with dpa)