A consortium of German producing SMEs has mobilized to look to prompt the nation’s policymakers to make a correction of the primary course. The Zukunft Wirtschaft Deutschland E. V. (The Initiative for Germany’s Future Economy) initiative, formed in 2023 and led by Andrea Thoma-Böck, its founder and president. LIZW is a nonpartisan national base that calls for innovations to the Counck’s economic policies, with a specific focus on the desires of small and medium-sized enterprises and the business circle of relatives.
Thoma-Böck is managing partner at Thoma Metallveredelung GmbH, which employs about 130 people in Heimertingen, putting her on the front lines of the SME challenges. The company specializes in galvanic metal coatings and is a pioneer in environmentally friendly galvanizing technology.
Pymas like yours shape the spine of the German commercial base. While Michael von Liechtenstein, founder and president of Geopolical Intelligence Services AG, recently declared in his own interview with Thoma-Böck for the European Foundation of the European Center of the Economy, “Intermediate corporations in Germany give a more than 60% contribution of The highest highest in general.
Deindustrialization in Germany, which I pointed out a year ago, is even happening to the biggest players and is rushing as the economy continues to struggle. It is now contracting in 2025 for the third consecutive year. These difficulties have contributed to the ruling coalition’s recent cave, with new elections set for next month. The industry’s decline has been highlighted in recent months by the reduction of 11,000 tasks through the larger Aciérique Thyssenkrupp and by Volkswagen’s announcement of 35,000 task cuts in 2030 amid an investigation into “alternative options” for its factories in Dresden and Osnabrück.
For Thoma-Böck, that’s enough. ” The existing economic crisis has passed from German industry to almost every living space in Germany,” he told me via email. “For companies in industry and crafts, those are basically the prices of the main prices, the availability of raw materials, the lack of professional workers, bureaucracy and the micro-gestation through the German and European regulatory government that suffocate companies. Normal business activity is no longer possible. “
One of its greatest frustrations is the obvious disability of the country’s leaders for the right courses after years of lunic economic results. “Political convictions are placed above the facts and above genuine,” he explained. “The genuine consequences of political decisions are widely ignored and, as far as possible, only the knowledge that can still meet their own expectations are taken into account. “
She thinks that one of the main participants in the challenge is the lack of real global crime among the country’s ruling class. “Almost none of the top politicians and ministers have ever worked in a personal company under market conditions,” he said. “Some don’t even have vocational training. He now highlights that for years, political positions were filled almost exclusively through party members, regardless of their professional qualifications. How can it be that a minister of the economy has almost no economic delight or knowledge?Or that a Foreign Minister has no diplomatic context?The consequences are obvious and plunged Germany into a deep structural crisis. »»
Another difficulty is the complication of the two teachers of the country, the national and the EU that contribute to the problems.
Andrea Thoma-Böck, founder and president of Zukunft Wirtschaft Deutschland E. V.
“European law has priority over national law,” said Thoma-Böck. “The legislative projects in European Point are introduced through the Commission. For example, the green agreement, which was announced unilaterally through the president of the European Commission, is a playground for ideological positions that simply cannot be maintained if they are contrasted With reality . . . but, of course, there are also misdeeds of purely German origin. Now they oppose us. “
When it comes to feasible and practical solutions, Thoma-Böck Acwisdoms that the list is long. “It can be said,” he proposed. The makeshift in combination of symptoms and the escape of unrelated battlefields will have to urgently give way to a sustainable policy based on skills, wisdom and facts. But the option of implementing technical inventions in all grades will also have the availability of professional workers. This in turn is based on demography. At the same time, its higher education leads to scarcity in other areas. However, there are basic facets in which anything wants to replace so that the scenario can improve. “
Your list of priorities is the following:
Thoma-Böck is still categorical that replacement will have to get in spite of everything. “The economy is not an objective in itself, but without an adequate economic base, it cannot be once again,” he said. “Doing the same and back and waiting for new effects is every time the definition of madness. The replacement requires the voices of the entrepreneurs, who have been too silent for too long. The lack of courage to show the limits is partly guilty of this situation. They inform us a lesson. Therefore, expressing and taking the position is the time table in the future. »
This article was edited to ensure its non-partisan content.