“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 there is a willingness to reform it from among his coalition partners, the SPD and the Greens of the concept would be there.
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 Marcel Fratzscher.