GERMÂNIA IX - GERMANIA IX - GERMANY IX

Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller (Trumpf)

Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt (Daimler)

November 28, 2013, CDU, CSU and SPD had agreed a coalition for a Government included a statutory gender quota of 30% for women in open positions on company supervisory boards (beginning in 2016). Men react about the intrusion into corporate freedom that would impair competitiveness because follow them there are not enough qualified women.

Die Spiegel talk about an actual quota of 17.4 percent of supervisory boards and 6.1 percent of management boards in 160 most important companies (http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/gender-quota-preparations-at-top-german-companies-a-935505.html).

SPD, CDU and CSU leaders

Other questions of the agreement are opened like the increase of the Available Revenue in Germany by minimum wages (8,5 € / hour for about 6 millions workers with begining in 2015) and the increase of public expenses (22.000 M€) with priorities like education, research and development and infrastructures, a potencial increase of Domestic Market, without increase of taxes and debt (fall of SPD proposal of taxation over the more rich persons).



Education (http://www.dw.de/image/0,,346259_4,00.jpg), Research and Development (http://jobs.jnj.com/sites/johnsonandjohnson/images/sp-research-img.png

) and Infrastructures in Germany (Berlin by Thomas Wolf - http://foto-tw.de/detail/ (Wikipedia) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

Priority to «Energiewwende», renewable energies, means a goal of energetic share between 55% and 60% in 2030, with the confirmation of the close of nuclear energy centrals until 2022, a very good option for Germany and Europe!

Alternative energies in a photo by Jürgen from Sandesneben, Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alternative_Energies.jpg, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en, http://www.flickr.com/photos/79432516@N00)

But what will be the vision about Europe, expressed in the agreement: a «Strong Europe» with «Germany’s responsibility for Europe» limited with a limited diagnosis linked to fiscal laxity and a lack of competitiveness and therapeutic linked to «structural reforms for more competitiveness and strict sustainable fiscal consolidation», the same and bad strategy of the past ... with a social democratic nuance of «socially balanced investments in growth and employment», balancing market freedom with social rights.

More economic and fiscal policy coordination still under the continued austerity rule of budgetary consolidation and stability and growth pact. 

About monetary policy German ortodoxy rules ... 

We will wait for more information and for SPD members reaction and validation of the agreement.