The German economy Minister wants to strengthen Germany as a business location and to protect. It’s his Job. However, his most recent Initiative, shoots clear over the goal, says Henrik Böhme.
Peter Altmaier is a friendly person. And apparently also has a very caring side. Currently, he’s a very German industry. Because of the threatening danger from all sides. From the direction of the United States, China and Europe can no longer rely. Bad for the German economy and its industrial core. A core, which accounts for nearly a quarter of the German economy power (what us other countries envy).
Ministerial Protection
But the competition never sleeps, especially not in China. While you follow, in this country barely, to keep bridges and highways to maintain, let alone build a new airport for the capital, pounding the Chinese world’s gigantic infrastructure projects off the ground. While the auto industry is fighting here with diesel gate, and rollers in China, already thousands of E-cars from the factory halls. In this country we are still thinking about (but after all, finally), where you could build your own battery cell production. And in terms of Artificial intelligence Germany, is threatened to also lose the connection.
Henrik Böhme, DW-business editorial
So did the Minister and the paper is designed, in which he describes how he wants to protect the German industry from all of these threats. Now is not defamatory is, per se, that the Minister of the economy, thinking the economy. He is paid for. Because the paper is circulated, but since a couple of days, has the Minister also been a lot of criticism for this plug in. “A planned economy!”, contrary to echoed it to him, “feasibility of fantasies”. Therefore, Altmaier, tried to assure the official presentation several times, he was a staunch supporter of the market economy, as well as regulatory policy. Order politicians argued that political intervention in the economy ended almost always in a Disaster. (Ask Nicolás Maduro!)
Supporters of the market economy?
But, as a staunch supporter of the market can make economic proposals, such as, for example, the direct state participation in the development of key industries? Or the possibility, via the participation of the Fund in companies, which are threatened by an unwelcome Takeover as a kind of forced nationalization? Also, companies are to merge in the from the Minister identified the key sectors easier, even European Champions can more easily occur (what is really). Just stupid, that this very week the EU Commission is the merger of the rail divisions of Siemens and Alstom, a European rail technology Champion. Since the Minister’s Initiative comes too late.
Let’s make it short: This paper is not a person does not need the economy. What the economy needs, are competitive structures. Tax relief. An intact infrastructure. A super-fast mobile network. Cheaper Energy. Simpler investment requirements, shorter plan approval process, Top universities, bright minds from all over the world here curls and not to look always just jealous to Stanford or Harvard. The best conditions for start-UPS. Thus, the government office, Minister of economy, had their hands full.
What Germany needs, such a plan of economic thinking. Otherwise, the group is profitable, Siemens-in the end, only the “people’s own factory of electrical engineering Werner von Siemens”. It is better not to.