German companies want to walk Berlin

The new government in Germany has been in power slightly more than 100 days, and business leaders say time has come to turn politics into reality.

Counselor Friedrich Mirz a campaign on a pro -integration and economy growth platform, Reform and investment pledge This raised hope in the business community. Optimism was further strengthened when the coalition negotiations between the Christian Democratic Union of Mires caused, along with the brotherly party, the Christian Social Union, and the Social Democratic Party, The main financial transformation This was set to enable high defense and infrastructure.

The CDU, CSU and SPD government is now the coalition government in Germany, and enthusiasm has continued from companies with the start of the coalition’s political period, according to business leaders who have spoken to CNBC in recent weeks.

“We have, as I heard before, at least 10, perhaps 20 years of weak political decisions, are very ideological, not driven by business, and not driven by society, and it seems that the new government is moving in a different direction,” Thomas Schools, CEO of the Building Company FingerHe said earlier this month.

Elsewhere, Oliver Pitti, CEO of Allianz, CEO of Allianz, welcomed the new government’s approach to taking competitiveness seriously, with Mirz repeatedly pledged to restore Germany to the right path to push for global leadership.

He said: “I can only build them to take them seriously, and he also has the filling of financial reserves to develop an unheard investment program, as well as nearly two decades of lethargy under investment in infrastructure, under investment in the military and defense (and) under investment in education.”

The leading German companies in July Declare Their private initiative, with the aim of enhancing the investor’s interest and confidence. The group consists of 61 companies planning a collective investment of 631 billion euros (737.4 billion dollars) by 2028.

“This is a good sign, and it shows that there is an alliance between (the world of companies and politics these days, which is very important, which was not so during the past years,” Deutsche Telecom CNBC said.

The tone of business leaders has also been reflected in recent times DataWith the reporting of the IFO Economic Institute improvements in the company’s feelings for five consecutive months so far.

Economists to survey Regarding the policy conducted by the IFO and the German news organization, Frankfurt noticed the lack of measures that have been implemented so far during the Mirz period.

“30 % of the participating economists hold measures of the economic policy of the new German government in the first 100 days as” somewhat negative “, with 12 % classification as” very negative. “

They pointed out that the participants negatively highlighted “the lack of reform efforts in the field of social security systems. In addition, they see the absence of a clear incentive for more structural reforms, the reduction of bureaucracy, and the progress of climate protection,” she indicated.

Business leaders had a wide wish list to share with CNBC.

Roland Bush, CEO of Technology SiemensHe was among those who called for structural reforms. Some of them included “digitization, the fastest decision -making operations, the least bureaucratic, work (to transform our energy” and changes in the labor market.

The business needs were also called by the leaders, saying from Deutsche Telekom, saying that the company can be supported by the local authorities and the federal government in its structure of fiber infrastructure.

Many of these issues have also been marked by leaders as reasons for economic weakness in recent years. Germany’s economy was contracted in 2023 and 2024. Then the largest economy in Europe recorded 0.3 % GDP growth in Follow the first quarter 0.1 % Shrink The next period, according to data, in the second quarter.

“In Germany, we have not grown as a country in the past two years, and there are reasons behind this. It is related to bureaucracy, it is related to education, it relates to security, about energy prices, and in this context, being able to compete on a global scale,”

“But we need to circumvent this country from a country that does not grow to grow,” he said.