A few days ago, Susanne Raab, Minister of the Family, Women’s Affairs and Media, not only presented a new “children’s package” for Austria, but also negotiated the future ORF funding with the new budget levy. She also traveled to Denmark on Tuesday to study the Danish model there, which is much more restrictive in terms of social benefits for migrants.
“Austria has a very generous social system for migrants. The Danes take a much more reduced approach. So it’s time for me to take a closer look at the Danish model,” says the minister in the explosive TV conversation with Gerhard Koller. It may be necessary to “adjust the household system because it is sometimes too generous”.
She is proud that with the new children’s package she has created financial support for all those people who suffer from inflation and are increasingly unable to afford children. Families, single parents and benefit recipients will receive 60 euros per child per month in the future to alleviate inflationary pressures. The payment takes place without the need for an application, because the necessary data from the Ministry of Finance is used.
New ORF law: “We didn’t choose it”
She defends the new ORF household tax she negotiated, which will be levied from 2024, even if more people would have to pay in the future than was the case with the GIS levy: “The Constitutional Court has demanded a new solution from politicians, as the ORF’s prior free internet use was unconstitutional. We didn’t choose it, we were asked to come up with a new solution,” says Raab, referring to the fierce criticism from many domestic print and online media that the ORF is now even more preferred than before and private providers are even fall back further behind.
According to Raab, the future elimination of the previous GIS controls on the apartment door would also be long overdue, “because the system was simply no longer up to date”.
You can see many other explosive details about ORF funding and the opportunity for private newspaper providers in the video above.
Source: Krone
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