Overview
- Herbert Diess, speaking on ZDF’s Markus Lanz Thursday night, warned that Germany is losing ground in future technologies.
- He called for faster adoption of renewables, said they are now highly competitive and can be produced in Germany, and suggested letting petrol prices rise to speed the shift.
- Diess backed American military intervention in Iran, calling a regime change important for the world and even a possible global growth driver.
- Economist Moritz Schularick said Germany has fallen behind China in batteries, robotics, and AI, describing it as a developing country relative to China in these fields.
- Energy economist Claudia Kemfert called the situation a fundamental fossil energy crisis with dramatic effects as rising fuel and power bills strain households and the wider economy.