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German conservatives to promise full employment in party platform
Reuters ^ | Sun Jul 2, 2017 | 1:09 pm EDT | Andreas Rinke and Erik Kirschbaum

Posted on 07/02/2017 9:46:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives will promise to all but eliminate unemployment in Germany by the year 2025 when they announce their 2017 election campaign platform on Monday.

Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), will present their platform for the Sept. 24 election on Monday with other already known policies such as income tax cuts worth €15 billion per year and promises to build flats.

“A major point is that we’d like to achieve full employment,” Horst Seehofer, CSU chairman and state premier in Bavaria, said on Sunday on his way into a meeting of the conservative leadership. The CDU/CSU consider full employment to be a jobless rate of less than 3 percent — compared to 5.5 percent now. Those “Economic Miracle” levels of unemployment have not been seen in the country since the mid-1970s.

The two parties also want to add 15,000 police officers in the 16 federal states. The sister parties, however, will not agree on a joint position on refugees. The CSU wants an upper limit of 200,000 per year, which Merkel and the CDU rejects. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cdu; eu; eussr; fullemployment; hijrah; merkel; polizei; rop; wirtschaftwunder

1 posted on 07/02/2017 9:46:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

For all Muslim refugees?


2 posted on 07/02/2017 10:00:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sie schaffen das.


3 posted on 07/02/2017 10:20:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

63 new jobs in Charleston County
http://abcnews4.com/news/local/automotive-supplier-to-create-63-new-jobs-in-charleston-county


4 posted on 07/02/2017 10:28:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: Olog-hai

Is Frau Merkel going to built super-highways,
make cheap “people’s cars”, and remove all non-aryans from the Fatherland as well ???


5 posted on 07/02/2017 10:29:04 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Did you want me to post that?


6 posted on 07/02/2017 10:34:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Angela Merkel’s conservatives...”

Hahahahahahaha


7 posted on 07/03/2017 1:01:46 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think they bring them in because prior to that, they were begging other EU countries to send their unemployed young people (and didn’t get enough). While many of the “refugees” may be unemployable, the Germans are probably hoping their children can be trained to do something productive.


8 posted on 07/03/2017 6:03:13 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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