FDP Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki has called on the federal government to correct course following an incendiary letter from the leading German business associations to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "If we don't turn things around quickly, Germany will continue to be left behind, slide deeper into recession and fall apart socially," he says.

The letter to the Chancellor comes from the presidents of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, the Federal Association of German Industry, the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.