EIt’s not that late in the day, half past ten in the morning, but Carsten Linnemann wants an espresso, the third one that morning, as his press spokeswoman notes with a slightly critical undertone. In times of health protection, espresso is what the cigarette once was, the attribute of the restless. And that’s just how Linnemann is, he has a tendency to be fidgety, sometimes speaks a bit breathlessly, and still seems quite boyish for his 46 years.
He has just presented a new product of his restlessness. “We will abolish citizens’ money in its current form,” said the CDU general secretary in the foyer of the party headquarters in Berlin, which had already been rearranged for an evening meeting regarding “Germany as a country of opportunity”. If Linnemann and the Christian Democrats have their way, social benefits should once once more be called basic security, as they were in the blessed times of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, whose reform some in the party rejected outright at the time.
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