Overview
- After the Junge Union’s Deutschlandtag, the party’s youth caucus said its Bundestag members will not back the coalition’s pension bill, with at least 18 rebels already counted.
- On ARD, Chancellor Friedrich Merz proposed a non‑statutory “Begleittext” outlining post‑2031 reforms and pledged to bring forward the appointment of a new pension commission.
- Unionsfraktionschef Jens Spahn has been tasked with corralling votes to rescue the package, which projections suggest would add roughly €118 billion in state costs between 2031 and 2040, raising questions over the coalition’s stability.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Paris seeking long‑term weapons and financing commitments as Russia claims further gains in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.
- Berlin will lift temporary curbs on arms exports to Israel on 24 November and return to case‑by‑case reviews, the government confirmed, while in Bochum a 12‑year‑old girl was critically wounded by police gunfire after approaching officers with two knives, according to authorities.