Overview
- The ARD talkshow Caren Miosga airs Sunday at 21:45 on Das Erste and will be available afterward in the ARD Mediathek.
- Guests are Jens Spahn, CDU/CSU parliamentary leader; Clemens Fuest, ifo Institute president; and Eva Quadbeck, editor-in-chief of RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.
- CDU, CSU and SPD leaders agreed in a late-night meeting to present the pension package to the Bundestag without changes before the planned vote, according to program listings and reports.
- An accompanying text aimed at younger Union MPs is planned to sketch reform options for a future pension commission, with its effectiveness still unclear.
- Economists, including Fuest, warn of rising costs and question the plan’s intergenerational fairness.