Category: Finance
Pension reform debate intensifies with trade unions resisting change
(de-news.net) – Instead of an Austrian-style occupational model, the Pension Commission favors targeted hardship provisions allowing earlier retirement when physical limitations prevent workers from continuing…
Economist urges government to preserve full pension reform package
(de-news.net) – Economist Martin Werding is pressing Germany’s government to implement its pension reform as an integrated package, while advocating changes to civil-service pensions and…
Frei and Laumann defend comprehensive pension reform package
(de-news.net) – The Union parties’ parliamentary leader Thorsten Frei and North Rhine-Westphalia Labor Minister Karl-Josef Laumann defended Germany’s proposed pension reform as an indivisible package,…
Commission defends integrated pension reform against opposition
(de-news.net) – Germany’s proposed pension reform has triggered renewed political divisions over abolishing the pension at 64.5, with Pension Commission members warning that removing individual…
Germany’s pension reform plans disputed over retirement at 64.5
(de-news.net) – Germany’s proposed pension reform has triggered a widening political dispute over plans to abolish retirement without deductions after 45 years of contributions. While…
Pension reform including core financing aspect faces mounting political resistance
(de-news.net) – The future of early retirement without benefit reductions for employees with 45 years of pension contributions has emerged as one of the most…
Coalition advances pension reform backed by new economic study
(de-news.net) – A proposed package of German pension reforms combines measures to improve the long-term sustainability of the public pension system with a new state-backed…
Deutsche Bahn posts first core profit in seven years amid rail reform and security measures
(de-news.net) – Deutsche Bahn has announced a return to profitability and record passenger numbers in the first half of 2026 while Germany advanced rail competition…
