11\/19\/2025November 19, 2025SPD\u2019s B\u00e4rbel Bas warns of “unsettled” coalition over pension agreement<\/p>\n
Social Democratic Party (SPD)<\/a> co-leader and Labor Minister B\u00e4rbel Bas<\/a> has warned that\u00a0“things will become unsettled” within the country’s coalition government if parliament failed\u00a0to pass a pension reform package in December.<\/p>\n The crux of the issue\u00a0is a guaranteed pension level of 48% of average income until 2031,\u00a0which the SPD is standing firm on.<\/p>\n Bas was quizzed at an economic conference in Berlin as to whether she foresaw any possible changes to the bill in its current form.<\/p>\n “No, it has been firmly agreed.”<\/p>\n Bas also rejected any possible amendments to the bill as\u00a0it made its way through the parliamentary process, arguing that there had already been “firm agreement” with the conservative CDU\/CSU bloc on six key elements of the pension package.<\/p>\n “If anyone is jeopardizing the coalition, it is the CDU\/CSU,” she said, referring to senior coalition partners the Christian Democrats<\/a> and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union.<\/p>\n Regarding the planned parliamentary vote on the matter in December, Bas said: “If this doesn’t succeed now, then we won’t have any reform at all.”<\/p>\n “If this vote doesn’t succeed now, then things will become unsettled,” she added. “It’s already unsettled. Let’s not delude ourselves.”<\/p>\n