The government has just presented its reform package for the autumn.

The reform contains both good proposals and serious deterioration. It is good that the government is finally setting the stage for taxing capital and share gains more and abolishing the mutual maintenance of early retirees and pensioners. And it is good that the government will find money for climate and welfare. But the government is also proposing something downright foolish, which the Unity List is totally opposed to, namely cutting unemployment benefits for graduates while halving their benefit period. It is deeply antisocial for the government to embark on that course, and the Unity List will struggle to get it stopped.   Mai Villadsen, political spokesman for the Unity List, says: The Unity List is totally opposed to cuts in unemployment benefits. It is to me completely foolish of the Socialists to come up with a proposal that will make graduates much poorer and undermine the security of the labour market, which is a foundation for our welfare society. Unemployment benefits have already deteriorated and eroded for years. Investment and more security are needed – not the government's attacks on graduates. We're going to fight to get that element out of this reform. Now, of course, we are entering into the negotiations. There are a lot of good suggestions in the overall proposal. In particular, the abolition of mutual maintenance for early retirees and state pensioners, and proposals for increased share and capital taxation, which is a clear Unity List policy that we have been fighting for for years. The government's so-called 'activation obligation' is linked to state-sponsored social dumping, and we will fight this tooth and nail. This is an insanely poor proposal and I think we should go down a completely different path and help people in real jobs for collective pay instead.