The former Kuka boss is now a start-up investor and a member of the board at Müllermilch.
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Berlin, Zurich The Ukraine war has turned companies into players and pawns of geopolitics. Till Reuter already knows that. When the current supervisory board at Müllermilch was still head of the robot manufacturer Kuka, the federal government intervened vehemently. In 2016, Berlin wanted to prevent a Chinese investor from entering the German high-tech company.
Today, Reuter makes differentiated statements about geopolitical influences: He considers “permanent state intervention” to be wrong. But in times of war, it is up to politicians to determine the “direction and limits” for what companies are still allowed to do and what not, he says in an interview with the Handelsblatt.
Reuter calls for Germany to be made more independent of suppliers from certain regions immediately: “We have to reduce dependencies at all levels – especially with a view to China.”
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