Unemployment Insurance: Pocketbook Issues and German Politics

unemployment insurance: It was launched by Martin Schulz, the bearded, professorial candidate of the centre-left Social Democrats a party whose politics are roughly comparable to Canada's Liberals, according to Globe and Mail. He pulled his party sharply to the populist left with a campaign aimed at pocketbook issues, promising to use his country's extraordinary wealth to build wages and benefits. But German politics and media have now been consumed by a more prosaic debate one involving unemployment insurance, pensions, health care, housing. Germany is the world's largest exporter in good part because the Social Democrats, in the early 2000s, forced wages and social-assistance payments down. Merkel are socking it out over bread-and-butter politics rather than heady matters of ethnic identity and immigration. Suddenly, he and Ms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.