Rescuers race Opel

The code will fight on all parties to stylize Opel rescuers and one against the United States facing Nationalkeynsianismus propagate
On Monday was the theme Opel chief thing in Berlin. The Federal Chancellery Merkel conferred with the Opel managers. In two kilometers away Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs met the SPD chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Stein Meier with the union representatives of Opel and the head of IG Metall. That the two meetings brought no concrete results were predictable.

Merkel and stone Meier have made it clear that they are saving the jobs of Opel chief thing to do and not just in the rescue of the banks as makers and makers want to produce. Therefore joined Merkel and stone Meier, but the prime minister of the four provinces with Opel branches, as fighters on election.

Particularly clear when the Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch. Because of itself in two months for reelection has to leave it but not for announcements. He brought an [external] in the Land Law, which guarantees up to 500 million euros allows. The haste seems plausible. Finally dissolves Parliament shortly and a special meeting in the middle of the campaign is timely.
Koch is the "conscience" of four SPD MPs to parliament, that he is now the role of the maker can play. Ypsilantis to be prime minister were elected, they would be rewarding role. Because opposition to the guarantee is not loud in Hesse. Even the Left Party [external] criticized only that the guarantee is not the executive government, but the budget committee of Parliament must decide. Nobody wants to be accused in the campaign, the Opel workers in the back like to be.

Between tones are convulsions in the campaign

Therefore, it is also difficult for the Greens discussions on whether a rescue for the carmaker Opel for the environment a good or bad news, and if you are not at Opel also could produce other products. Indeed, an old word game of the chanson Niers Franz Josef Degenhardt to use, such nuances are convulsions in the election. Just as the Greens their ecological needs the FDP their liberal economic principles times briefly forgotten when it comes to the rescue of the Opel jobs. Group of the FDP chief of North Rhine-Westphalia [external] Gerhard Papken confessed to the [external] interview with the German radio the dilemma, that he was convinced Marktwirtschaftler now Opel NRW, for once a group will help.

Like Papken Angela Merkel had also declared that any guarantees are usually not allowed. Now, one could recall that the absolute exception is long past. Gerhard Schröder has established itself as a savior of Holzmann AG in Lower Saxony can celebrate. What the company has become today wants to know more precisely nobody remembers the FAZ in a critical [external] commentary in which they market the liberal flag hochhält and yet know that they are in code fight times and lost items is the absolute exceptions could accumulate.

The race for state assistance is opened. Besides Opel want it, other car makers participating suppliers also reported a precaution and more interest in their industries. The German economy shrinks, come from all sectors of bad news: steel, chemicals, logistics, tourism, aviation, information technology, retail, agriculture and so forth. Where should the line be drawn?
Commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

No German tax money into the U.S.

Merkel and Papken are also in a different issue. A guarantee could only be achieved if the funds remained in Germany, she stressed. Papken was even clearer. German taxpayers' money should not in any case in a black hole in the U.S. sinking. Such sounds come straight to the Opel locations where people fear for their jobs, good.

In a reportage from the newspaper Ruesselsheim, where in the past 30 years, more than 15,000 jobs were lost, says it has an [external] meeting with pensioners in the taz:

"I'm glad that I'm already out there, because now maybe go all the lights out when Adam," said a pensioner in taubenblauem blouson cap and shield to another. Thinks that "the Yank" to blame it all: "We would have long ago of which must uncouple." All in the group nod.

This Volte against the "Amis" to the crisis virus towed to Germany would likely not only to the Opel sites on party boundaries are heard. This could result from the nonconceptual processes of the capitalist socialization Nationalkeynsianismus with an anti-American felling develop.

Unions in the terminal

Such a policy also comes with many trade unionists well. Sun called the Opel works of the four locations in Germany also that the funds from German no guarantees in the U.S. are expected to be transferred. Otherwise, warned the Opel works council chief Klaus Franz, his political socialization once jointly with Josef Fischer at the left-undogmatic Spontis has begun before the bad speeches of the German Opel site.

Opel had no liquidity problems and requests for a guarantee Vorsichtsnassnahmen were pure, so it is French for the teaching of Duisburg-Essen Transport scientists [external] Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, before a collapse of the Opel group [external] warns, a Krisenpopulist. Also commonly referred to the union Left counted Bochum Opel works council chairman Rainer Einenkel looks at the U.S. parent company GM the problem. Even on a separation will be considered. About solidarity with the actions of the crisis much harder beleaguered GM colleagues read so far little.

The unions know that in times of crisis victims, which have the collective conclusion of the IG Metall made clear. In an [external] discussion paper, some trade unionists of the AK world economic crisis at National ver.di of Baden-Wuerttemberg a sobering assessment of the trade union activities the last time and before the "impasse Nationalkeynsianismus" warned. Whether they succeed, the trade unions in a broader discussion to initiate, will be reflected in the show next time.