German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their center-left coali...
FILE PHOTO: Germany's Social Democrats interim leader Malu Dreyer addresses a news conference in Berlin, Germany October 28, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Mang
Senior coalition members, including SPD Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, convened for talks in the chancellery on Sunday morning, in a renewed effort to seal a deal which would lift the basic pension for low-income workers employed all their lives. To woo the SPD, the conservatives agreed to introduce a higher basic pension, or Grundrente, for people who have been employed for at least 35 years. But some of the details were left open and talks on finalizing the terms are deadlocked.
Asked in an interview whether the coalition government would last until the next regular general election in autumn 2021, Scholz, who is running for the SPD party co-leadership, told Bild am Sonntag newspaper: “Who wants to predict that?”
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