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Sunday speeches for heroes, everyday hell for volunteers – The great hypocrisy: everyone loves volunteering, nobody relieves it!Sunday speeches for 27 million volunteers – and on Monday it’s back to forms, liability risks, and energy prices. The Bundestag debate on volunteering showed one thing above all: the old parties praise the backbone of society while having spent years overregulating it into collapse. Only one party says where the bureaucracy really comes from. Who actually created the bureaucracy? A razor-sharp analysis of the Bundestag debate on volunteeringOn May 21, 2026, the Bundestag debated under the well-sounding title “Cohesion through engagement – Volunteering as the backbone of our society”. It was the usual Berlin ritual dance: 27 million volunteers were showered with warm words, while outside, club boards continued to toil like unpaid administrators at risk of burnout. The central question that must immediately be asked is: Who has actually cultivated this bureaucratic overgrowth over decades? The answer is as simple as it is devastating: precisely those old parties that now solemnly promise relief.The government: Sunday speeches and small stepsState Minister Dr. Christiane Schenderlein (CDU) opened with constitutional rhetoric and a reference to the new day of recognition. The aim is to combat the “bureaucratic overgrowth,” increase allowances (instructor allowance to €3,300, volunteer allowance to €960), and create somewhat more legal certainty. “Less is sometimes more,” she lectured, calling for courage to “dispense with one or another well-intentioned regulation.”Sounds nice. But: this government (Merz-CDU-led coalition) inherits and maintains the jungle of regulations built up by previous red-green governments and predecessors—data protection obsession, charity law, grant law, and EU directives. Small corrections in the 2025 tax amendment law are not a breakthrough, but like aspirin against cancer. Bureaucracy reduction “costs nothing”? Correct. It costs political will – and Berlin has not shown that for decades. AfD: The only one pointing at the woundArne Raue (AfD) hit the nerve: the board table of a small sports club is the most bureaucratic place in Germany. Decades of political neglect, COVID policy, energy price shocks due to failed policies, exploding costs – that is the real everyday life. Not ceremonial Sunday speeches, but paperwork before a firefighter is allowed to extinguish a fire. He cited the backlog in sports facilities (€31 billion) and THW locations. The AfD announced that, if in government, it would radically reduce burdens – cut taxes, remove bureaucracy, secure young talent. Jörn König and Thomas Korell followed up with concrete proposals: double exemptions, abolish tax filing obligations, exempt clubs from VAT, relieve employers. While others talk, the AfD wants to act. That stings – and explains the nervousness of the others. The coalition and Union: self-praise and blame-shiftingSPD (Bettina Lugk, Jürgen Coße) and Greens (Tina Winklmann, Leon Eckert) painted a positive picture of civic engagement as a “countermodel to polarization and hatred.” They defended programs like “Democracy Lives!” and warned against blanket suspicions of extremism toward civil society. Bureaucracy? Yes, they acknowledged it, first steps have been taken, more must follow. Classic business-as-usual with moral lecturing. The Union (Stefan Mayer, Dieter Stier, etc.) positioned itself as a constructive admonisher within/close to the government: some improvements have already been made, the “Future Pact for Volunteering” now needs to be filled with life. More trust, less regulation in association and tax law. At the same time, they tried to relativize AfD figures (THW has record membership). Honest acknowledgment of their own failures? None. The Left: welfare state instead of personal responsibilityMandy Eißing and Jan Köstering politely thanked volunteers but mainly criticized the “dismantled welfare state” that volunteering has to compensate for. Demands: free public transport for volunteers, a federal card, rent subsidies. Typical left: celebrating volunteering as a gap-filler for state failure while simultaneously demanding more state intervention. Conclusion: hypocrisy by designThe debate showed the usual Berlin spectacle. Everyone praises the 27 million engaged citizens. Hardly anyone dares to answer the core question honestly: this bureaucracy is not a natural phenomenon. It is the product of decades of policy by CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens, and others – with ever more regulations, liability traps, data protection hysteria, and ideological programs that burden rather than strengthen associations. Energy policy that makes halls unaffordable, COVID measures that weakened clubs, and a state that retreats from public services only to expect salvation from volunteering.Volunteering is not a backbone that can be cured with small allowance increases and honorary days. It is what remains when the state fails. Anyone who truly wants to relieve it must not only “remove one or another regulation,” but clear entire regulatory wastelands. The AfD names the problem and delivers concrete steps. The rest congratulates itself – while the lights go out in the club house. Honor where honor is due? To the millions who still step up despite politics. The Berlin speakers deserve above all one thing: distrust. Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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