Overview
- The CDU’s Mittelstandsunion proposes excluding new civil‑service appointments outside clearly defined sovereign functions such as police, prosecutors and enforcement officers.
- Under the proposal, teachers would generally no longer be appointed as civil servants.
- The paper urges governments to boost public‑sector appeal without civil‑servant status through performance‑based pay and clearer career paths.
- It calls for mandatory, transparent and intergenerational pension reserves, citing studies that report roughly a 50% rise in pension expenditures over the past decade.
- Party leaders meet in Berlin on Monday to set priorities, and the proposal will be debated alongside other reforms, including limits on minijobs, at the CDU federal congress on February 20–21 with its adoption uncertain.