The Socialist Party of Germany (SPD) has called for "tough sanctions" against the country.
The Saarland's Minister-President demands the tightening of sanctions in the misuse of citizen's money. Rehlinger sees a "poisoned debate" on the topics of migration and social state. A CDU politician warns his party not to focus too much on these areas.
In the debate about the future of citizen's money, the Saarland's Minister-President Anke Rehlinger demands a more efficient effect of the controversial social benefit and calls for penalties and sanctions in case of misuse. The receipt of citizen's money and black work seems "under certain circumstances profitable - and people observe this in their environment," said Rehlinger to the "Tagesspiegel". "The state must act more effectively against black work, and that also with hard sanctions on social benefits, because that is a double fraud on society."
The citizen's money "must become more targeted and misuse must be punished," said the SPD politician: "Not least, we must bring people with recognized asylum status much more into work." Rehlinger said, the topics of migration and social state "are increasingly becoming a poisoned debate, among other things because the proportion of citizen's money recipients with a migration background is increasing." One thing is clear: "Work will always be more profitable than the receipt of social benefits - also and especially through citizen's money."
The CDU social politician Dennis Radtke warned his own party not to focus too much on the topics of citizen's money and migration. "The criticism of citizen's money is now shared by large parts of the traffic light coalition and shows that we are fundamentally right. However, we must be careful not to only talk about citizen's money and migration anymore," said Radtke. The CDU member of the European Parliament is considered a possible future chairman of the CDU workers' wing CDA. The position will be decided in September.
"We now have a profound social crisis. In France and the Netherlands, affordable housing and the cost of living were the drivers for Le Pen and Wilders," said Radtke: "We can see how Wagenknecht is currently scoring with these topics. We must present ourselves as CDU with our own ideas and clear concepts to the people on these topics." If the Union proves itself to be "credible and empathetic", he believes it could achieve a result of "38 percent and more" in the federal election in 2025.
The CDU politician Dennis Radtke advises his party to avoid overemphasizing the topics of citizen's money and migration, urging a balanced approach to address the societal issues at hand. Meanwhile, the CDU remains a significant political force, as evidenced by the potential future chairman of its workers' wing CDA, being a member of the European Parliament.
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