There are less than 100 days until the federal election.
The Union now wants to agree on an election manifesto.
The former opponents Armin Laschet and Markus Söder also come together for this.
Berlin (dpa) - Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) and CSU boss Markus Söder will meet with the presidia of the sister parties for final deliberations on the joint program for the federal election this evening (7 p.m.).
Up until the very end, experts on both sides worked on the details of the 200-page draft.
CDU boss Laschet and Söder wanted to present the program on Monday - their first major joint public appearance after the power struggle for the candidacy for chancellor.
The Union wants to convince the citizens of the election on September 26th despite high government spending due to the corona pandemic, among other things by rejecting tax increases.
The state's financial leeway is clearly limited.
"New debts or tax increases would be the wrong way," says a draft that is available to the German Press Agency.
Especially in the areas of climate and pensions, there was last discussion, as dpa learned from the Union. The inclusion of the mother's pension desired by the CSU should not be included in the joint paper. The deputy CDU chairman Volker Bouffier rejected the CSU demand for an increase in the maternal pension. "Since we already have very big financial challenges, I believe that we cannot do that now," said the Hessian Prime Minister to the editorial network Germany (RND). He reckons, however, that the CSU will stick to the demand in the election campaign to count older mothers and the younger three instead of two and a half pension points per child. CSU boss Markus Söder told the "Bild am Sonntag": "I am very sure that the maternal pension will be in a coalition agreement in the end."
Central points in the design include:
ECONOMY, CLIMATE: In order for the economy to regain momentum after the pandemic, “no new burdens may be imposed on companies,” it says.
New taxes on assets such as the wealth tax or the increase in inheritance tax are rejected.
The Union is aiming for a “competitive corporate tax of the order of 25 percent”.
Companies should be relieved of billions in bureaucratic costs.
According to the draft, the mini job limit of 450 euros is to be increased to 550 euros.
In the climate pass it says that Germany's greenhouse gas neutrality will be implemented by 2045. The Union is relying on "the market-based instrument of emissions trading with social compensation", they are striving for European emissions trading with a uniform price and global connectivity. The growth path of CO2 pricing should be streamlined and "transition as quickly as possible to a price established on the market in the newly established European emissions trading for mobility and heating". Specific CO2 prices are not given. The income should be returned in full to citizens and companies via the electricity price.
SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Calls for an increase in the retirement age, as recently raised by experts, are not included in the draft.
The aim is to help people to reach the actual standard retirement age, "and also to set stronger incentives to work longer," it says.
In addition to the three pillars of old-age provision - statutory, company and private provision - the Union wants to establish a fourth pillar: a “generational pension for every child”.
For this, the state should pay a contribution of 100 euros per month for each child from birth to 18 years of age into a generational pension fund, which invests the money in a return-oriented manner.
A new start is necessary for private, state-sponsored old-age provision ("Riester pension").
GENERATIONAL JUSTICE: The Union wants to return to a balanced federal budget without new debts as soon as possible, the draft says.
Changes to the constitution to soften the debt brake are categorically rejected.
The draft does not announce any major tax relief for citizens.
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