German Chancellor Merkel said today: "We are a country with industrial enterprises - large, medium and small businesses all available. I hope we continue to be a country with a strong industry. I am not prepared to give up Germany's status as an industrial base just because we have implemented overly extreme and off-track environmental policies. In the end, we may achieve carbon neutrality - that is aside - but by then, we will no longer have any industrial jobs left. This is not the outcome I want."
Comment: Merkel's remarks directly put an end to Germany's extreme environmental radicalism in recent years, placing the survival of industry first. He clearly pointed out that pushing enterprises away and eliminating jobs for the sake of carbon neutrality is essentially destroying the economic foundation. This is both a redemption for German industry and a warning to the entire Europe: environmental protection cannot take precedence over national survival, and practical development is the hard truth.
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