After the election in Argentina
Does Milei create new opportunities for German companies?
By Andrea Sellmann and Mary Abdelaziz-Ditzow
December 14, 2023, 10:00 a.m
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Argentina’s economy is in a serious crisis. The new president Javier Milei wants a radical change of course. Can he do it? And what does that mean for our economic relations?
High inflation and national debt, corruption and a bloated state apparatus: Argentina’s problems are diverse. The economist Federico Foders knows them very well, as he himself emigrated from the South American country to Germany over 50 years ago. The President of the International Economic Senate has been waiting for a long time for the situation in Argentina to improve. During the election campaign, Javier Milei conveyed the message that things could be done differently, says Foders in the “Wirtschaft Welt & Weit” podcast. “We’ll see whether things get better.”
Milei’s wish list is large: the new president wants to cut many ministries, abolish the Argentine peso and introduce the US dollar. But what will remain of his slogans? What can actually be implemented? Susanne Käss heads the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s foreign office in Buenos Aires and knows the political majorities: “He will always have to rely on knitting alliances with other parties because he cannot govern alone,” explains Käss in the new podcast -Consequence.
Can Argentina turn things around? And to what extent could the general conditions for German companies improve now? Argentina is rich in lithium, a raw material needed for the production of electric car batteries. Is the country too risky for German companies so far? Or what else is behind the fact that China is overtaking us when it comes to Argentine lithium? Host Mary Abdelaziz-Ditzow discusses these and many other questions with her guests Federico Foders and Susanne Käss in the new podcast episode.
What does Germany have to do to continue to play an important role in the economic world of tomorrow? Who do we depend on? Which countries benefit from the new world situation? Mary Abdelaziz-Ditzow discusses this with relevant experts in the ntv podcast “Wirtschaft Welt & Weit”.
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