Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) welcomes the planned multi-billion euro financial package from the CDU/CSU and SPD, but is calling for further-reaching reforms. "These infrastructure investments only make sense if the brakes on growth are solved first," he told the Rheinische Post newspaper. As an example, he cited a planning acceleration law and the abolition of the right to sue associations.
"Investment in this country must be accelerated," said Kretschmer. "We need to ensure that this country recovers quickly, that it is open to technology, that we invest in the railroads, that we invest in the roads, that we invest in digitalization and that energy is not a scarce, expensive commodity. Only then will Germany be a strong country. And all of this is now possible."
