The domestic companies and their representatives see the ever new state taxes and bureaucratic hurdles as an obstacle to competitiveness, i.e. ultimately anti-consumption and export. In order to get production and productivity fit again, the governments need completely different – much larger – lever. They are inevitable in the context of common European politics and the EU’s internal market. This is the only way Europe would have a chance in a time of narrowing the global markets between ever new threats from the USA or unfair competition from China.
