Tag: Industrial policy
Alliance: No climate neutrality without CO2 storage
CO2 storage in a cement plant in Wuhu China is also developing the technology further in order to make industrial processes less harmful to the climate. So far, there has…
Why the Ministry of Economic Affairs is important
Federal Minister of Economics Altmaier at the Young Entrepreneurs Summit The policy department in the Ministry of Economic Affairs has long ceased to act as a counterweight to the statists…
ZVEI is demanding speed with the chip subsidies
Chip manufacturing The industry association ZVEI calls for significantly more support for chip companies in Europe in order to be able to compete with the USA and China. (Photo: Bloomberg)…
The race is also decided at the universities
The bad news from the chip industry doesn’t stop there. The industry is still not able to deliver as much as customers order for a long time. This has increasingly…
France is putting Germany under pressure
Cattenom nuclear power plant near the border with Germany The French have little understanding for the German exit from nuclear power by 2022. (Photo: picture alliance) Paris, Brussels The letter…
Steel industry – climate protection agreements could be the last chance
Berlin Energy-intensive industries such as steel, chemicals or cement will be under immense pressure in the coming years to make their production processes climate-neutral. The steel industry is particularly in…
Material shortages in German industry are greater than ever
VW plant in Zwickau Almost all companies (97 percent) in the auto industry reported problems, according to the Ifo Institute. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The acute shortage of materials in German…
The climate change in the auto industry is at the expense of the little ones
Production of a Mercedes EQC in Bremen The change from the combustion engine to the electric drive is a challenge for the suppliers. (Photo: dpa) Whoever appoints the new chancellor,…
Investing in e-mobility in the USA
Pickup truck One of the automaker’s new factories is set to produce the electric version of the F-150. (Photo: Reuters) new York The US car company Ford is serious about…
The choice is over, now is the time to be unreasonable
This campaign was a campaign of trivialities. And, with all the debates about résumés and questions of style, it was also an imposition – in view of the ecological and…
Comment: Hydrogen in the airplane – more realism please
The statement makes you sit up and take notice. Airbus boss Guillaume Faury said a few days ago that he is becoming increasingly confident that a hydrogen-powered airliner will be…
What investors need to know now
The real estate company Evergrande has consistently borrowed billions for its numerous projects to buy building land, develop high-rise buildings – and sell the apartments to the Chinese middle class…
European companies view China’s economic course with concern
Beijing European companies in China are warning of an increasing isolation of the People’s Republic from the world economy. “There are worrying signs that China is turning inward again,” warned…
Chip shortage: The auto industry has gambled away trust
ID.3 production by Volkswagen Many production lines are currently standing still because the automotive industry lacks semiconductors. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The automotive industry has vastly miscalculated. Actually, everything should be…
Large German companies are committed to the 1.5 degree path
Steel production at Thyssen-Krupp in Duisburg The companies are pushing for an internationally coordinated climate policy. (Photo: AP) Berlin On the occasion of the United Nations (UN) Climate Week in…
Where Germany is weak as an industrial location
Economists, however, come to a very different conclusion than the Chancellor. The government of the grand coalition since 2013 has set Germany back in an international comparison. This emerges from…
Germany doesn’t take French anger seriously enough
American nuclear submarine The US deal with Australia is causing outrage in France. (Photo: dpa) Paris The American submarine deal with Australia and the new security pact in the Pacific…
How an entrepreneur reaches his limit
The Kröner-strength company in Ibbenbüren The company produces starch for food and adhesives. (Photo: Kröner-GmbH) Brussels, Berlin You can’t tell from the white flakes that Götz Kröner produces in Ibbenbüren…
Nuclear power comeback? France is putting Germany under pressure
Berlin, Brussels, Paris Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet formulated a thought in the second television debate on the federal election that he was apparently unsure of himself. Germany made a…