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The boards of major car companies including VW and Mercedes-Benz applauded the "energy and mobility transitions" initiated by Angela Merkel...
Germany's top managers have long been silent or opportunistically acquiesced to the anti-capitalist environmental policies of the past two decades. The boards of major car companies - including VW and Mercedes-Benz - applauded the "energy and mobility transitions" initiated by Angela Merkel. At the same time, they failed to speak out against mistakes such as the ban on the combustion engine from 2035.
But now, many of them are fed up with these policies. Some have even decided to speak. One of Germany's best-known business leaders, Wolfgang Reitzle (formerly director of BMW, Ford and Linde), put it in the clearest terms last week.
In an article in the German daily Die Welt, he declared: " Germany is in decline ".
His criticism was convincing. Productivity improvements have long been Germany's hallmark – but unit labor costs have been rising for years now.
" Germany is no longer among the top ten countries in Europe in terms of gross domestic product per capita. We got out of the list of the 20 most competitive countries in the world ", he declared.
Germany is currently governed by a coalition of two left-wing parties, the SPD (Social Democrats) and the Greens, along with the market-oriented FDP, which is trying to prevent the worst from happening. Reitzle, however, does not place all the blame on this government alone. Above all, he believes the decline is rooted in the era of Merkel, who ruled Germany from 2005 to 2021.
" 16 years under Chancellor Angela Merkel were too many even for a country as strong as Germany ", says Reitzle, " During the Merkel era there was not a single structural reform that would make the country more efficient. However, two fundamental decisions will have a lasting impact: the energy transition and the opening of borders to uncontrolled migration ," he said.
He accuses Germany of massively expanding its welfare system while failing to invest in the future. For a country as rich as Germany, Reitzle continues, the infrastructure is in a "shameful" state. He also criticizes the EU's policy of constantly imposing new regulations on European companies. As an example, Reitzle cites major chemical company BASF, which must contend with 14,000 pages of chemical industry regulations.
BASF recently announced plans to cut thousands of jobs in Germany and invest billions in China. The company blamed the terrible cost of electricity in Germany and excessive bureaucracy for its decision. Many other companies have already announced that they will leave Germany and expand their operations in the US or Asia.
Reitzle criticizes Germany's growing shift away from the market economy, noting that the share of the public sector has now risen to 50 percent.
" Confidence in the state is rising - support for the market economy is falling . Germany already has the shortest annual working hours in the world, at 1,349 hours (US 1,791, Poland 1,830). And we are currently discussing a four-day week , if possible with two days of work from home for a better work-life balance ," he said.
For Reitzle, the fundamental problem is that policymaking in Germany is entirely dependent on the issue of "climate protection". No other country in the world has a bolder climate policy
Germany, according to him, seems to believe that it can save the world's climate practically alone.
Gjermania ka braktisur energjinë bërthamore dhe së fundi madje ka mbyllur termocentralet bërthamore krejtësisht funksionale në një kohë mungesash masive të energjisë.
“Energjia elektrike po zëvendësohet nga energjia bërthamore në Franca dhe energjia me qymyr nga Gjermania, me burime të tjera. Për vitet në vijim, ne do të kemi energjinë elektrike më të ndotur në Evropë pas Polonisë – dhe nuk do të japim ndonjë kontribut të rëndësishëm në mbrojtjen e klimës”, tha ai.
E meta në politikën energjetike dhe klimatike të Gjermanisë është në maksimum sipas tij. Kapacitetet për energjinë e erës dhe atë diellore do të duhej të katërfishoheshin. Për shkak se era dhe energjia diellore janë shumë të paqëndrueshme, do të na duheshin kapacitete të mëdha magazinimi dhe rezervë. Por kjo, shpjegon Reitzle, nuk është as teknikisht e realizueshme dhe as e përballueshme për një vend si Gjermania. Sipas tij është thjesht çmenduri.
In addition to Merkel, Reitzle's criticism is directed at the Minister of Economy, Robert Habeck of the Greens. He says Habek's 'Renewables Only' plan will fail. He and the Greens, along with a large, almost religious community of left-wing environmentalist journalists, are on an ideological journey that can only mean a gigantic loss of prosperity in Germany./ Adapted "Pamphlet" from "The Article "
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