{"id":27534,"date":"2026-07-02T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/the-chancellors-statement-on-bafog-must-be-honored-press-statement-by-the-deutsches-studierendenwerk\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:14:20","slug":"the-chancellors-statement-on-bafog-must-be-honored-press-statement-by-the-deutsches-studierendenwerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/the-chancellors-statement-on-bafog-must-be-honored-press-statement-by-the-deutsches-studierendenwerk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Chancellor&#8217;s Promise on BAf\u00f6G Must Be Kept&#8221;: Press Statement by the Deutsches Studierendenwerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to statements by Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz that the BAf\u00f6G reform will proceed as agreed between Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil and Research Minister Dorothee B\u00e4r, Matthias Anbuhl, Chairman of the Board of the Deutsches Studierendenwerk (DSW), said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chancellor\u2019s word must be binding: According to Friedrich Merz, the BAf\u00f6G amendment will be implemented\u2014as stipulated in the framework resolution on the federal budget agreed upon by Dorothee B\u00e4r and Lars Klingbeil. This would mean both improved benefits and a simplified BAf\u00f6G system. If Friedrich Merz keeps his word, he will demonstrate that he has the interests of the younger generation in mind. This would put an end to the federal government\u2019s erratic course on student financing. This would be good news for students; they must not be disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to statements by Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz that the BAf\u00f6G reform will proceed as agreed between Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil and Research Minister Dorothee B\u00e4r, Matthias Anbuhl, Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"expiration_date":"","expiration_date_gmt":"","expiration_enabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"class_list":["post-27534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bafoeg-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stw-muenster.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}