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Merz pledges swift implementation of pension commission proposals
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Labor Minister Bärbel Bas announced Tuesday morning that all 33 recommendations of the pension commission will be fully implemented. The package is to be turned into law quickly.
Chancellor Merz complains that Germans work too little. The SPD now wants to increase vacation entitlements.
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Alice Weidel held the Berlin AfD election campaign kickoff in an oriental wedding hall in Neukölln and called for deportations.
The DFB is targeting the expanding US soccer market. Through a switch to Nike and a football house in New York the association aims to tap into the billion-dollar sector. At an event in New York Thomas Müller encountered hundreds of fans.
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Construction group Hochtief joined Germany's benchmark DAX index on June 22. The Essen-based firm replaces Porsche SE.
Soldiers from IT Battalion 292 trained to protect IT infrastructure during an exercise in Dillingen. Generalmajor Lutz Kuhn visited the troops on site.
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Germany's national football team defeated Ivory Coast 2-1 in their second World Cup group match. Deniz Undav scored both goals for the DFB side.
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