Markus Kerber, Director General of the BDI, on the outcome of the British referendum. “We deeply regret the outcome of this referendum. The result is an urgent warning to all of us Europeans to make ...
“At the BDI’s General Assembly this November, the vice presidents and I will all recommend electing Dieter Kempf as BDI president for 2017/18,” Grillo said on Monday in Berlin. “This proposal has met ...
Two thirds of companies are unable to predict the consequences. Only one in four are prepared for a Brexit. A possible Brexit and its consequences are generating great uncertainty among German compan ...
The German government has asked the leading German business associations to conduct the official G20 economic dialogue – the Business 20 (B20) – under the German G20 presidency, which will start at th ...
Statement on the release of secret TTIP documents “For German industry, the success of TTIP depends on clear conditions. The goal must be to facilitate trade, to ensure high standards, and to combine ...
In his speech at the opening of CeBIT, BDI President Ulrich Grillo urged the German federal government to inject momentum into the digitisation of industry by providing a higher-capacity broadband inf ...
BDI President Ulrich Grillo comments on the results of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. He describes the AfD as a protest party with no political conte ...
After more than fifty years, the USA has replaced France as Germany’s most important trading partner. Following publication of the latest foreign trade statistics, BDI Executive Board Member Stefan Ma ...
The burden of receiving refugees must be fairly distributed in Europe. This was the message from the presidents of the BDI, BDA, DIHK and ZDH in a statement issued for the summit in Munich. Other topi ...
Immediately before the EU summit in two days’ time, BDI President Ulrich Grillo and German Employers’ President Ingo Kramer appealed to the heads of state and government to conclude an agreement with ...