The former German Chancellor defends the balance between political and business interests (Photo: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock) Merkel said this in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel this Friday (22). “If someone like him [Musk] owns 60% of all satellites orbiting in space, that should concern us far beyond politics,” he noted.
Merkel distrusts Musk, who is in power in the United States. The former chancellor then referred to the “invisible link” between Trump and the big companies in Silicon Valley, “which have tremendous financial power”; He further noted that during his 16 years in command of Germany (2005-2021), he realized that a balance was needed between the interests of “powerful and ordinary citizens”; For Germans, he explained the importance of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis as a “last political case to set things right.” “And when the latter case is strongly impacted by companies, financial capital or technology, this is an unknown challenge for all of us”, he highlighted; Merkel also noted that “in a democracy, politics is not powerless against business.” Read more:
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