Is the state getting involved in the auto industry? The Greens make unexpected demands on Merkel

Corona is shaking everything up - is the state now getting into the auto industry?

The Greens have a demand on Angela Merkel.

Markus Söder could also have a plan.

• Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning another auto summit for Tuesday (September 8th).

• The occasion is the Corona crisis, which is also hit hard by German car manufacturers.

• The Greens make a surprising request beforehand - but Markus Söder and Co. are also planning a proposal.

Frankfurt am Main

- The state as a car manufacturer?

It will probably not turn out quite like this.

But the scenario in the Corona crisis no longer seems completely absurd:

calling for a

to participate in ailing companies

before a top meeting on the problems of the auto

industry.

Auto industry in need of Corona: Baerbock makes surprising demands on Merkel

Green chairwoman Annalena Baerbock

told the

: “We have to buy medium-sized companies and suppliers time.” In view of more than

, “no politician can say: I don't care, let them see how they think about them Getting rounds ".

The

advocated a state “SME and Transformation Fund” that invests in companies in need.

"If the state takes on part of the risk, the small and medium-sized company could provide the strength to invest and innovate," Hofmann told the newspaper.

Hofmann also emphasized that the German auto industry does not have to hide from the US manufacturer Tesla when building electric cars.

Merkel's car summit: "Are real" - Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are apparently planning their own proposal

had previously

spoken out in favor of further aid.

"Impetus for demand" is still "urgently needed", said the SPD head of government of the

on Friday.

However, it is not just a matter of simply reissuing the

for older cars, including when buying modern combustion vehicles.

With this, Weil,

from Bavaria and

from Baden-Württemberg could not prevail before.

"All three of us are unreactive and know that we can't just come up with the same ideas again," said Weil.

You are working “on proposals that are even more convincing than the previous ones”.

Weil, who also represents the Lower Saxony state government on the presidium of the

supervisory board, has not yet said anything more specific.

However, a VW subsidiary had so far even evaded the Corona crisis.

Angela Merkel invites you to the car summit: New demands from Söder, Weil and Kretschmann?

In industry circles it is heard that the three "car countries" with the headquarters of Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler could bring an extended or second economic stimulus package into the discussion.

In this respect, it is a "modification" of the previous proposals.

This Tuesday, the top managers of the auto industry will meet at

for another auto summit.

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