German Finance Minister Olaf
Scholz said Tuesday that he understood why the Italian
government wants to bring in a 'citizenship wage' basic income
for job seekers.
"You can't achieve everything. But perhaps we can reason in a
more European way," Scholz said in Berlin.
"Who knew until recently that an EU founder country, a
successful industrial economy, does not have insurance for the
long-term unemployed? The government is trying to do something
of the kind.
"Perhaps what it wants to do all at the same time is
enormous.
"But faced with the fact that, as a society, it wants to
resolve an issue like this, you cannot reply - 'what are you
thinking?'".
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