Great piece from Thorsten Brenner and Jakob Hensing. A sally to Friedrich Merz for rethinking Germany's industrial and economy strategy in terms of 'systemic competition'. A real challenge given Chinese overcapacity on on the one hand and US tariffs on the other.
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Germany Needs to Rethink Competitiveness for a Hostile World
Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to strengthen German industry, but his thinking is stuck in the past. The key question is how to make Germany and the EU thrive in the age of systemic c...