Most states are against claiming the measures are anti-social, and they want amendments.
All Bundesrat speakers agreed that unemployment was the most urgent problem in our society. But according to Bavaria's state premier, Mr Stoiber, even the SPD-governed states have to realise that Germany's exaggerated production costs were partly to blame. You wouldn't believe for a second that Europe would standardise structures reaching our levels in no time flat. You're trying to make people believe in something that just can't be done. According to state premier of the Saarland, Mr Lafontaine, of the SPD, the measures would cause more unemployment and debt.