“Look at your pension,” says an expert on ARD – and explains the “problem” of the debt brake. Finance Minister Christian Lindner is determined to stick to it, although his coalition partners SPD and Greens are definitely willing to reform it.
Almost a quarter of the budget went towards subsidies for the statutory pension. “Take a look at the pension. Hardly anyone will say that it's too much for them, there's already extremely little there," says economist Marcel Fratzscher.