The minister said a momentous sentence on the subject of investment control: “I think we should do that.”
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Berlin, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Washington Perhaps the hardest day in Robert Habeck’s political career ended with a sentence that nobody expected. The Federal Minister of Economics had to answer in the Bundestag on Wednesday for the best man affair of his State Secretary Patrick Graichen. In the evening, Habeck appears at a conference of the foreign trade chambers.
No more awkward Graichen questions. It’s about trade, SMEs and China. At the end of a long answer, the Vice Chancellor talks about the USA. Washington wants to soon control investments by domestic companies in China. So far, this has not been done in Europe, says Habeck. Then the sentence falls: “I think we should do that.”
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