"Lifestyle and a four-day week. All nice, you can do all that,"
"But if we want to maintain our prosperity, then we all have to pitch in together now and make sure that really good work is being done in this country again."
"And that is what I want to get away from. I want to motivate us, all of you, all of us together, to undertake a new collective effort here,"
"Not with coercion, not with pressure, not with new laws, but simply with cheerfulness at work."
At a Political Ash Wednesday event in Trier, a call was made for greater willingness to work hard and a renewed collective effort to maintain Germany's prosperity. The appeal contrasted attractive lifestyles and a four-day week with the need for solid work to sustain living standards. The message emphasized motivating people through cheerfulness at work rather than coercion, pressure, or new laws. Internal CDU debate is expected at an upcoming party congress, centered on performance and work culture. A business-wing proposal to limit the legal right to part-time work was revised to remove the phrase 'lifestyle part-time' and now speaks of organizing part-time entitlements.
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