German industry warns of deadlock after coalition talks collapse

The breakdown of Germany’s ‘Jamaica coalition’ talks after the pro-business FDP dropped out after four weeks of negotiations has alarmed representatives of the country’s leading industries, Roland Pichler and Kerstin Ruchay write in the Suttgarter Nachrichten. The failure of the coalition talks was “absolutely unsatisfactory”, Dieter Kempf, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), says. Eric Schweitzer, head of the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), says the early conclusion of the talks was “sobering” for the German industry, adding that he had hoped a coalition of the FDP, the Green Party, and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance could have “breached blockades” in certain policy fields, such as energy and digitalisation.

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