STORY: NOTE: You will receive this article without additional narration. O-ton Katharina Dröge, Chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group: “We said clearly as a traffic light: On the one hand, we want to increase the standard rate so that people simply have more money in their pockets every month. That the Union has now moved and said she was willing to go with us – this shows, above all, that she has realized that she cannot stand completely as a party of social indifference. But in the end, citizen money is more than just an increase in the standard rate. It promises security and respect, especially in a crisis, especially at a time when more people are wondering if they will slide into unemployment.” – SCHNITT – “And that the Union is now putting the brakes on the citizens’ income and thus the support of the people who have the least in this society – that’s indecent from our point of view.” O-ton Johannes Vogel, FDP parliamentary group member: “Friedrich Merz proposed for the Union this week that one could decouple the standard rate adjustment to inflation and the associated increase on 01.0.1 and the citizen income reform. We Free Democrats think so wrong. Simply increasing the standard rates without reforming the system to improve performance and career opportunities would be exactly the wrong way have to go to a modern basic security in Germany.” O-ton Friedrich Merz, parliamentary group leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group: “Even after the marginal improvements made by the coalition, we are sticking to our rejection. However, we still offer that we support those who need the help from the Social Security Code II, i.e. in the language in the Everyday “Hartz IV” need that we really put those who urgently need this increase in a position to be able to rely on the money coming in. And that’s why our offer to the coalition remains to bring this part of the Citizens’ Income Act forward to decide on the increases this week, because otherwise the Citizens Income Act will almost certainly not find a majority in the Bundesrat next week and will then go to the mediation committee.”