Former Eon CEO Johannes Teyssen looks with concern at the future of Germany’s industrial location. “We will experience a creeping and quietly accelerating deindustrialization” he told the “Handelsblatt” (Tuesday’s edition). The new federal government must therefore “declare that Germany is on the brink.”
Teyssen criticizes the policy of Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “He refuses to set necessary priorities and would rather only create new debt.” Germany needs fundamental reforms. As a senior advisor to the investment company KKR, a board member of the Swiss power producer Alpiq, and a member of the board of the oil company BP, Teyssen speaks of an “unleashing agenda”. No one understands “all the laws and regulations” anymore. Companies should also take more risks again, without the state taking over all guarantees.
Teyssen considers the German nuclear phase-out, decided during his time as Eon CEO, as a mistake: “Shutting down operating nuclear power plants is and was absurd.” Despite this, he finds discussions about a re-entry into nuclear power in Germany unnecessary: “No reasonable person would build new nuclear power plants here in Germany.