Chancellor Friedrich Merz signalled Wednesday he was not opposed to Chinese carmakers taking over struggling German auto plants but cautioned it could not be a long-term solution for the industry's problems.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/67947705

Volkswagen boss Blume – who also told staff that four plants might need to close – said in April that he was open to Volkswagen’s Chinese partners using its plants.

Stellantis said in May it had formed a joint venture with China’s Dongfeng to share manufacturing, sales and engineering operations on the continent.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Of course the conservative government wants life to be horrible in Germany so they can argue that it was better in the old days