Business associations have called for an exit strategy for restrictions in the federal and state governments Corona crisis to submit. In an interview with the newspapers of the Funke media group, the president of the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI), Dieter Kempf, called for a binding planning horizon. “Our companies want and need to know at what stages social and economic life should start again – after the Chancellor’s meeting with the Prime Ministers on May 6th.”
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Politicians must work continuously to ensure that they can get back on the job as quickly and reliably as possible. Should the contact blocks be extended further, be massive loss of wealth and fear permanent damage to the economy and society. “Every week of a shutdown, the German economy costs a mid double-digit billion amount of added value,” said BDI chief Kempf.
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“Unlock before it’s too late!”
Open letter from the Federal Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses to Chancellor Angela Merkel
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The Federal Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW) demanded that the restrictions to contain the corona pandemic be ended in May. “Release the lockdown before it is too late!” According to the association, in an open letter from the top to BVMW President Mario Ohoven to Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). It is irresponsible that politics has not presented an exit schedule. “Despite a government bailout package of more than a trillion euros, a wave of bankruptcies of unknown magnitude threatens that could destroy the existence of hundreds of thousands of people within a few weeks.”
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The head of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) sees the need to get back into a mode “in which activity becomes the rule and not standstill”. This was written by DIHK President Eric Schweitzer and General Manager Martin Wansleben in an internal letter from which the German press agency quotes. “There is also growing awareness in political Berlin and in the state capitals that a longer shutdown brings with it even more dramatic problems.”
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“If the contagion rises in Rosenheim, it does not necessarily mean that the shops in Bremen will close”
Top of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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