Gabriel Felbermayr, head of the Economic Research Institute (Wifo), is still in favor of not indexing all government aid one-to-one to inflation so that high inflation is not sustained for too long. But the burdens should be distributed in a socially fair manner. He also confirmed this in the ORF “ZiB2” on Tuesday for the benchmark rents: It would be best for them to increase them over two or three years, instead of by 8.6 percent on April 1, as is currently threatened. The ÖVP and the Greens are still negotiating.
