The NEOS have also started the primary campaign. In addition to many well-known pink demands, party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger also developed the idea of a ‘probability theory’ for all 18-year-olds worth 25,000 euros on Thursday and called for the ‘dismantling’ of social media companies.
Party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger presented the substantive announcements for this year’s super election year in Vienna on Thursday evening, together with her new book. In her speech, the NEOS boss sharply criticized social media, which she blamed for the “increasingly aggressive mood.”
“We cannot make our democracy dependent on narcissistic tech billionaires,” Meinl-Reisinger said, calling for competition policy measures to “dismantle” social media companies. When it comes to migration policy, she once again called for a European solution, but also spoke out in favor of asylum procedures outside Europe.
“Stark failure of political leadership”
In view of the current “toxic situation” with a crisis of confidence and a “blatant leadership failure” in politics, a “confidence pact” is necessary to counter social polarization, Meinl-Reisinger demanded in a keynote speech on the 20th floor of the Ares Tower in the Danube City of Vienna. In concrete terms, the NEOS boss currently sees the middle of society in particular under pressure.
She accused the “complacent establishment parties” and their male colleagues in their leadership of “wasting their energy fighting each other and not finding solutions for the people.” “The identity politics of left and right will get us nowhere,” says Meinl-Reisinger, who, together with her new book, presented the substantive announcements for this year’s super election year.
Many well-known NEOS ideas presented
What would be missing is the effort to find real solutions and a plan for a better future. The plan that Meinl-Reisinger is now presenting includes many well-known NEOS ideas, such as reducing indirect labor costs, reforming the pension system and meeting the European obligation to provide aid. When it came to the pink heart issue of education, she upped the ante and called for schools to be separated from the government.
25,000 euros for everyone aged 18 and over
Their demand for a “civil right to education” includes, in addition to a legal right to a place in a kindergarten from the first birthday and a shared school until the age of twelve, also earmarked state support for all young people aged 18 and over. On an ‘opportunity account’, 25,000 euros must be available for education, starting a business or buying your first house.
The money must be repaid in the event of a later inheritance. According to Meinl-Reisinger’s ideas, the whole thing should be financed by raising the retirement age by one year.
Source: Krone
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