Have the Union and the SPD overslept to secure the pension?
The FDP accuses the GroKo of this - and names a striking plan for a change of direction.
Berlin - Before the general election, the issue of migration will come back on the agenda.
The second TV triall on Sunday was about asylum and labor migration.
Now the FDP is making a striking demand in the final spurt of the election campaign: From the perspective of the Liberals, Germany needs half a million immigrants every year - for a secure pension.
Retirement provision is one of the bigger issues ahead of the polls.
Pension and migration: FDP sharply criticizes the SPD and the Union - Germany must become a “modern country of immigration”
"We need a fundamental rethink in migration policy," said FDP parliamentary group vice and financial politician Christian Dürr of the dpa.
"If we manage to make Germany an open, modern immigration country and at the same time stabilize pensions, we will gain more as a society than we can imagine today."
The Union and the SPD had put the financing of the pension on the back burner - a fatal mistake, criticized Dürr.
The aging society will be a major challenge for the next federal government.
“Fifty years ago, four contributors financed a pension; today there are two.” More and more people are retiring, but fewer and fewer contributors are entering the labor market.
Immigration: FDP warns of pension problems - 500,000 immigrants needed and "not a lot"
"Even today, the state has to subsidize pension insurance with large sums," criticized Dürr.
“We cannot afford that in the long run.” The FDP is therefore proposing a reform of pension financing based on greater migration into the labor market and a share pension in which the pension funds invest in shares in order to generate higher returns.
"If we want to stabilize our public finances and reduce the level of debt, our country needs at least 500,000 immigrants a year," said Dürr.
In terms of population and in comparison to other immigration countries, that is not much.
The FDP assumes that through its concept the debt brake in the Basic Law can be adhered to, the debt level will decrease and at the same time the pension level will be improved.
For more immigration, a points system based on the Canadian model should be introduced.
There, people willing to immigrate are classified according to their education, work experience, language skills and age.
At the same time, professional qualifications and qualifications should be recognized more easily.
Bundestag election: dispute over the pension rages - also the employment agency boss calls for more immigration
The head of the Federal Employment Agency, Detlef Scheele, recently called for increased immigration. Germany needs around 400,000 immigrants per year - specifically targeted immigration to fill the gaps in the labor market. As a result of the demographic development, the number of potential workers in typical professional age will decrease by almost 150,000 this year.
In the discussion rounds of the top candidates for the federal election, the financing of the pension was also recently controversial.
Green chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock also spoke out in favor of more skilled workers.
Left chairwoman Janine Wissler called for politicians and civil servants to be paid into the statutory pension fund.
Chancellor candidates Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Armin Laschet (Union) argued about whether young people should be guaranteed that the retirement age and pension level would remain stable.
Scholz campaigned for such a guarantee, Laschet called it dubious.
A tax advisor in an interview with
Merkur.de
also criticized the Greens' tax plans with a view to old-age provision
.
He had previously clashed with Baerbock in the ARD “Wahlarena”.
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dpa / fn
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