Germany to increase unemployment benefit

Article reports that Germany’s government and opposition broke a long-standing deadlock on welfare reform for the long-term unemployed in february 2011 with a deal to increase benefits by €8 per month from 2012.

ESO: Background information: Talks on German welfare reform collapse http://www.europeansources.info/record/talks-on-german-welfare-reform-collapse/

Deutsche Welle, 21.2.11: Reforms on welfare payments agreed after long political battle http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14857121,00.html

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