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VDA President Müller against hate and agitation: "Auto industry is open-minded and tolerant"

Clear words from the association's head in light of the AfD surge: Populists offer no solutions for the challenges of the times and no forward-looking policies. The automotive industry requires tolerance and openness to the world, and embodies this within the companies. Hatred and xenophobia have no place there.

Clear stance against right-wing populism: Hildegard Müller - here at the IAA MOBILITY in Munich - advocates for an open-minded country and open-minded companies - and for forward-looking policies that populists would not be able to offer. | Photo: VDA
Clear stance against right-wing populism: Hildegard Müller - here at the IAA MOBILITY in Munich - advocates for an open-minded country and open-minded companies - and for forward-looking policies that populists would not be able to offer. | Photo: VDA
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Johannes Reichel

The president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) clearly positioned herself against hatred, exclusion, and xenophobia in an interview with the Rheinische Post. These have no place in our society, Müller said. Populists, especially in times of significant changes, would instrumentalize people's insecurity and fear of the future for their own purposes. However, they have no solutions for the challenges of our time. A forward-looking policy for Germany and Europe cannot emerge from this. These populists, some of whom are extremists, are losing their inhibitions in alarming ways and are becoming increasingly hostile to humanity and democracy.

"All of us – and I explicitly mean the economy as well – must stand up for our values, for our democracy, and take responsibility. We must show resolve," Müller appealed.

About 780,000 people are employed in the German automotive industry's companies alone, reaching an infinite number of people. Every day in these companies, openness to the world, tolerance, exchange driven by positive curiosity, and diversity are lived.

"These values are part of our DNA as internationally operating companies - and beyond that, they are of fundamental importance to our economic and social model," Müller asserted confidently.

 

From their perspective, it is particularly important that politics must win back the people who do not drift towards right-wing extremism out of conviction, but out of frustration, loss of fears, fear of the future, and a perceived lack of alternatives.

"What is needed now is a policy that exudes security, that gives citizens in these difficult times the justified feeling of having a clear plan, a vision, and at the same time taking the concerns and fears of the people seriously," appealed the VDA chief in the newspaper.

Translated automatically from German.
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