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FDP politician Wolfgang Kubicki: “Turn things around quickly”
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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 (SPD). The letter should not be ignored, Kubicki told the dpa news agency in Berlin.
»If we don't turn things around quickly, Germany will continue to be left behind, slide deeper into recession and fall apart socially. The fact that Economics Minister Robert Habeck is not the first point of contact for the business associations says a lot about the role that is still assigned to him," says Kubicki. Chancellor Scholz must now finally develop an Agenda 2030 in order to show a way out of the economic, political and social misery. Kubicki warned: "If this doesn't happen quickly, events will overwhelm us."
Business associations speak of growing frustration in companies
The leading associations are calling for reforms for an economic awakening. “Frustration and uncertainty are growing in many companies,” the letter says. And: “We are observing the political, social and economic development in which our country finds itself with great concern.” Germany is becoming less attractive as a location. The relocation of industrial production abroad is increasing.
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 and the Central Association of German Crafts