Andrea Nahles, head of the Federal Employment Agency, criticizes the traffic light coalition’s austerity plans. She defends sanctions against uncooperative citizens’ benefit recipients – and looks back on the time when she herself was unemployed.
Unemployment is rising, citizens’ benefits have fallen into disrepute, and the federal government wants to withdraw billions from unemployment insurance in order to rehabilitate its cash-strapped budget. Andrea Nahles’ job as head of the Federal Employment Agency was easier. The former SPD chairwoman doesn’t want to accept it like that. And it also has a reassuring message for employees.