“No pressure to save, just pressure to change’: Lindner surprises on ARD – and contradicts the topic of daycare. “By the way, child care is not a federal responsibility, but rather a responsibility of the states and municipalities,” added Lindner.

Last week, the federal government announced that it did not want to launch any further investment programs to expand daycare places. The reason is the current budget situation. DIHK Managing Director Achim Dercks criticized in the current “Report from Berlin” that the expansion of childcare was “not a social benefit, but an investment in the infrastructure so that employment is possible for parents”