Together with around 50 other medium-sized employer, business and business associations, the Textil+Mode Association has called for the first nationwide economic warning day. A day of action at the Brandenburg Gate and other rallies across Germany are planned for January 29th.
Behind the non-partisan campaign – according to the Economic Warning Day website – is the CDU-affiliated New Social Market Economy Initiative (INSM) with managing director Thorsten Alsleben.
With the campaign, the associations are calling on the parties to “make strengthening German competitiveness the focus of the election campaign and initiate an economic turnaround in the next legislative period,” Textil+Mode said in a press release. In a manifesto for the federal election, the General Association of the German Textile and Fashion Industry names the biggest economic policy errors of the past legislative periods and makes suggestions for a sustainable economic turnaround.
These include, for example, “comprehensive de-bureaucratization across all European and German legislation,” the “termination of Germany’s special path in energy and climate policy and the return to a common European target corridor,” as well as a “chemicals policy that is once again science-based and fact-oriented.” .