Marcel Fratzscher wants a “fundamental rethink” in education policy. The problems will worsen again by the refugee crisis, he warns. Just as the new Ifo boss Clemens Fuest he calls deep reforms -. The entire social system
The two top economists Marcel Fratzscher and Clemens Fuest request a reconstruction of the German welfare state. “We need a fundamental rethinking of our education policy, a fairer tax system, a smarter family policy and must take the forgotten of the labor market reforms”, Fratzscher, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), who said “Welt am Sonntag.”
“will be exacerbated by refugee crisis still”
the need for reform looks Fratzscher particularly in the education system: “There are too few childcare places, to a few all-day schools, and this will worsen again by the refugee crisis.”
also Fuest calls for reforms in the education sector: “We offer a university education for free, but require kindergarten fees. We would have to do the opposite and invest more in pre-primary “
Need, the new head of the Munich-based ifo Institute.
div class => “said” a state mandatory pension “
In addition, the pension will be “reoriented”. “We need a government-mandatory pension provision, is only obligatory grants rather than the middle class,” Fuest said.
Uneins the two economists on the question whether the inequality in Germany is too high. So Fuest contradicts the theses in Fratzschers new book “distribution struggle”. “Germany is at the inequality a comparatively unproblematic country,” Fuest said. Fratzschers thesis from the “prosperity for all” had become a “prosperity for a few,” is misleading.
“Not something we can be proud”
Fuest warns “that such theses only lead to an ideological debate that against the mark economic system as a whole directed “. The German model of social market economy should not be denigrated, he asks. “It is not dead, it lives.” Contrast
Fratzscher said: “We have our blinders put the motto: We do not see what we do not want to see. Because the rising inequality and the distribution struggle in our country are not something we can be proud. “
pension experts call” Germany pension “for all
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