Lars Klingbeil rejects the CDU's reform proposal for citizens' money. The CDU wants to rename the citizen's money "New Basic Security" and "abolish it in its current form" The SPD accuses the Union of wanting to use the economic challenges to make a comeback of its policies from the 1990s.
The Union's answers for a strong business location include lower pensions and a higher retirement age. For the SPD, however, social security and economic strength belonged together.