Neither the coalition government nor the opposition expect an agreement on the issue of indirect wage costs in the tax reform talks anymore. CDU politician Mr Repnik accused the Social Democrats of trying to destroy the pension reform by demanding the agreement on indirect wage costs. Earlier, both sides had already admitted the failure of the big tax reform. However, progress has been made on the issue of the planned abolition of the local trade tax on capital. Here, both sides still expect an agreement in the mediation committee hearing tomorrow.
Hessian court stops spelling reform Wiesbaden.
For the first time a court has stopped the adoption of the spelling reform. The Wiesbaden Administrative Court has granted a rush petition by a father from Marburg to stop the adoption of the new spelling rules at Hessian schools. According to the court, the spelling reform was such a decisive change in educational policies, that it could not be adopted by a simple decree, but only a new act of law. The Ministry of Cultural Issues in Wiesbaden will have to decide within the next two weeks, whether they want to appeal the decision. The court has not yet made its final ruling on the issue.