{"id":60815,"date":"2026-07-09T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/german-industry-warns-far-right-state-election-wins-would-hurt-economy\/09\/07\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:21:25","slug":"german-industry-warns-far-right-state-election-wins-would-hurt-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/german-industry-warns-far-right-state-election-wins-would-hurt-economy\/09\/07\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"German industry warns far-right state election wins would hurt economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure data-testid=\"article-figure-image\" class=\"yf-750ceo\">\n<div class=\"image-container yf-lglytj loader\" style=\"--max-height: 640px;\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper yf-lglytj\" style=\"--aspect-ratio: 960 \/ 640; --img-max-width: 960px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/2446D4A3F5FF91D66F7AACA707B74CBE4C2F2F16A7B1D8E60046DEA4523F5C56\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fdpa_international_526%2F4750f77d542bf156cc576905437e9044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"yf-750ceo\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->FILE PHOTO &#8211; Tanja G\u00f6nner, Federation of German Industries (BDI) Managing Director, speaks during the annual kick-off press conference of the BDI at the Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft (house of the German Economy). (is associated with: \u00abGerman industry warns far-right state election wins would hurt economy\u00bb) Sebastian Gollnow\/dpa<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->The Federation of German Industries (BDI) warned ahead of state elections in September that a shift to the political right would hurt Europe&#8217;s largest economy.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->BDI Director General Tanja G\u00f6nner told the RND media group that any participation by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in government would undermine investment and deter skilled workers.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->&#8220;We would consider AfD participation in government to be fatal,&#8221; she said in comments published on Friday.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->&#8220;The AfD offers no convincing answer to the country&#8217;s key economic challenges. Its policies would make investment more difficult, create uncertainty and weaken Germany as a business location instead of promoting growth,&#8221; she added.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->State elections are due in September in the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin. Opinion polls show the AfD leading in the two eastern states of Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with the party in Saxony-Anhalt aiming to secure an outright majority.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->G\u00f6nner said the European Union and Germany&#8217;s federal government were primarily responsible for setting the legal framework for business conditions, but added that state governments also shaped the investment climate.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->She also pointed to growing labour shortages, saying Germany cannot afford to deter skilled workers from abroad.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/economy\/policy\/articles\/german-industry-warns-far-state-234839710.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO &ndash; Tanja G&ouml;nner, Federation of German Industries (BDI) Managing Director, speaks during the annual kick-off press conference of the BDI<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/german-industry-warns-far-right-state-election-wins-would-hurt-economy\/09\/07\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/FF160680188660F3487AEEDE4AA8053077339257C26A3420599AC1772A5AFD6F\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w1200_h800;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fdpa_international_526%2F4750f77d542bf156cc576905437e9044","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}