With a passionate appeal to the French economic and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire for the project of a joint German-French economic and industry-promoted policy. In a speech before representatives of both countries in the Allianz forum on Pariser Platz, he painted for Germany, France and Europe-a grim fate at the wall, if you would not include in the essential questions. The idea that after the fall of walls in Europe have proven to be the liberal democracies of the West as the winner in the story, have turned out to be incorrect. Undemocratic Nations such as China were to become powerful, the silk road, waxes and connect politically and socially structured in a similar way in each country. On the other hand, the United States of America developed compared with Europe increasingly aggressive. Europe but in many areas, immobile, whether it is the challenges in the development of new drive systems in the automotive sector, or innovations in the field of Artificial intelligence or the further development of Nato.

confusion to an alleged promise from Olaf Scholz

France and Germany as the core of Europe’s Hand would have to go in Hand, to defend the European culture. Both France and Germany have already adopted successfully by the old taboos in economic policy and ideas of each other as an advantageous detected. If both countries wished to continue to belong to the great powers, you would have to remain a great industrial Nations. Le Maire sharply criticized that it had not been for the planned merger of Siemens and Alstom in the field of rail vehicles. It was a political error and an economic disaster. He concluded his speech, which he had held, at the invitation of the Alliance and the Foundation of the market economy, with the German words: “We can do this”.

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as The speakers asked the German Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz, was an excuse for a sub-note on the parallel session of the SPD group in the Bundestag. A back issue of the daily mirror in his office showed, however, that Scholz had never agreed to.