Pressure on Merz as German employers back rebels on pension reforms

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2025-11-25

Berlin (dpa) - German employers' representatives are demanding that the government's controversial pension reform package be modified, piling further pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz as he seeks to hold his coalition together. Rainer Dulger, president of the Confederation of German Employers' Association (BDA), told the Employers' Day summit in Berlin on Tuesday that "Cabinet decisions can be changed." "If they are wrong, the parliament mus......

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