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FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai calls for an economic turnaround in Germany - and promotes the Growth Opportunities Act.
Berlin – The prospect of another year of recession puts the FDP on alert: The FDP has called for a rapid improvement in the economic conditions in Germany in order to overcome the current economic downturn.
“If we want the upswing by 2025 at the latest, then economic policy measures must be introduced quickly now and a real economic turnaround must be initiated,” said FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai on Monday (February 19) in Berlin after a presidium meeting of his party.
FDP calls for a “real economic turnaround” for Germany
The FDP wants to maintain and increase prosperity in Germany.
“The recovery in 2025 will not fall from the sky,” said the Secretary General.
Germany must do everything in the coming weeks and months to ensure that the general conditions in this country are significantly improved and that private investments are made more attractive and investment decisions are not made against Germany as a business location.
This involves, for example, energy prices, taxes and duties, and bureaucracy.
“These are all data and facts that we have to discuss and tackle if we want to initiate an economic turnaround,” said Djir-Sarai.
“We are against it,” says FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai about a possible AfD ban procedure.
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It is therefore also important that the Growth Opportunities Act, which is pending in the mediation committee of the Federal Council and Bundestag, finally comes into effect, said Djir-Sarai.
He certified that Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) had carried out the correct analysis of the problems facing Germany as a business location.
However, the FDP does not share his conclusion that the economy should be subsidized through a debt-financed special fund.
“Subsidies at this point are not the solution we need.”
FDP on the economic situation in Germany: “Recovery will not fall from the sky”
Djir-Sarai defended his interview in
Bild am Sonntag
, in which he had shown sympathy for an alliance with the Union: “I am firmly convinced that a bourgeois coalition made up of the CDU, CSU and FDP would be able to solve the problems of the Union “Not only to properly analyze the country together, but also to actually find solutions together,” he told the newspaper.
Now he emphasized: “I didn’t make any coalition statements or anything else.
But I have already made it clear where, in my view, the political intersections exist.” His statement was “very clever,” he said in response to a question from a journalist.
Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit dismissed Djir-Sarai's interview statements on Monday as "political trivialities."
“You have to accept it, but you don’t have to take it seriously,” he said at the federal press conference in Berlin.
In football we speak of “international toughness” in this context.