Given the current miserable economic situation and with over four million unemployed, a strike is the last thing Germany needs. |
I do certainly see chances that a grand coalition can take on major reform projects and reform challenges. |
Minimum wages would destroy at least a part of these jobs, which are occupied primarily by people with few qualifications and in eastern Germany. |
Politicians must decide: either they open up the low-wage sector and offer a new chance to the long-term unemployed and those with few qualifications, or they introduce a legal minimum wage. Both together won't work. |
The coalition agreement will not make enough of a contribution to support growth and increase employment. |
There is no clear impulse for more growth and job creation and that is precisely what is needed. |