Overview
- ARD's Nov. 2 episode featured a solo interview with Cem Özdemir followed by Hildegard Müller and Moritz Schularick assessing the auto sector’s slide and Germany’s policy choices.
- Studies cited on air reported profits at German carmakers down by up to about 38% overall and 96% at Porsche, with roughly 190,000 jobs at risk by 2035.
- Schularick described a structural competitiveness problem and lost ground in key technologies, while Müller stressed Europe’s battery-production gap and high energy costs.
- Proposals discussed included lower energy prices, faster approvals and less bureaucracy, expanded EV charging networks, stronger supply‑chain resilience and a European battery push.
- Özdemir rebuked Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the "Stadtbild" remark, urged concrete measures to cut irregular migration while easing regulated entry, shared personal accounts of racism, and positioned himself as a centrist Green aiming to lead Baden‑Württemberg.