Dresden (dpa / sn) – The Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) considers the planned gas price brake to be insufficient. “The price brake for the industry is becoming more and more a botch. There is a great danger that the relief will arrive too late or not at all for those who urgently need it,” he said on Wednesday in Dresden. Because of the massive increase in energy costs, the companies needed uncomplicated help and not always new hurdles. In this way, Germany’s international competitiveness is not strengthened, but rather weakened.
“The traffic light coalition is thus jeopardizing industrial jobs in Germany and damaging Germany as a business location,” emphasized Kretschmer. This is hostile to innovation and disregards the basic requirements of the social market economy. The energy price brakes are to be decided by the Bundestag on Thursday. German industry had also warned that relief due to high energy prices would arrive too late or not at all for energy-intensive companies and complained about too much bureaucracy.
