She can’t hear the whining anymore. Marie-Luise Wolff, President of the energy association BDEW, says: The industry must stop talking about Germany as a location that is worse than it is.
If lamentation is the merchant’s song, then whole choirs have recently gathered to sing about the bad situation. “There is no improvement in sight,” the industry association BDI recently announced. “Location issues” such as high energy costs and “regulatory uncertainties” continued to dampen the outlook. “Redirection is the order of the day,” demanded the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry this week. More and more companies were threatening to relocate – “an alarming signal.” Germany, or so the refrain sounds these days, is on the verge of economic decline.