According to several participants, Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for fundamental decisions on the upcoming social reforms by the summer break at the meeting of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
The CDU chairman is quoted as saying that there is a time window for reforms from Easter to the start of the summer break in mid-July. Fundamental decisions would have to be made during this period.
Söder: “There are no more excuses”
CSU boss Markus Söder had previously told “Stern”: “It’s best that everything has to happen between Easter and Pentecost. Now everyone has to get out of their ideological ivory towers. There are no more excuses.” Söder called the time until Pentecost at the end of May the “crunch time”. the crucial phase.
Söder referred to the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt as well as the election of the House of Representatives in Berlin after the political summer break in September. The atmosphere during the election campaigns will be aggressive there. “That’s why we have to have a coherent package by then.”





