“We would strangle the budget’ – Lindner warns against new debt. “We can risk reducing bureaucracy, which starts with not also adopting this EU supply chain directive,” Lindner continued.

The German economy is almost at a standstill. The government wants to present the new growth agenda in February. Lindner also named two projects that take shape over the course of 2024: The German Tibi initiative and a new corporate tax. The French Direction générale du Trésor (the equivalent of the Ministry of Finance) is now the leading ecosystem for financing new technologies in Europe.