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We discovered the note about European funding of nearly \u20ac110,000 on our competitor\u2019s website (see image above). The goal of this funding is to strengthen our competitor\u2019s position on the European market. Especially after the massive burdens of recent years \u2014 COVID measures, energy prices, supply chain disruptions, etc., which likely affected other countries as well \u2014 this is certainly a commendable effort. But is it fair? And does it support equitable competition?<\/p>\n
The German Taxpayers\u2019 Association states the following: EU funding policy at the expense of German businesses. How taxpayers are financing their own competition. The European Union officially pursues the goal of strengthening the competitiveness of the internal market. However, according to the Taxpayers\u2019 Association of Saxony, a different picture is increasingly emerging: EU funding is being used to build up production capacities in other member states, while German businesses \u2014 which largely finance these funds \u2014 receive hardly comparable support.<\/p>\n
A representative case from Saxony illustrates this structural development. A traditional sewing workshop, founded in 1882 and family-run across five generations, was economically stable until 2019 and at times employed 19 people. As a result of state-imposed COVID measures, massive cost increases for energy, increasing bureaucracy, and disrupted supply chains, reserves had to be used and jobs were cut. Only through drastic measures was insolvency avoided so far.<\/p>\n
After years of extraordinary pressure on small and medium-sized businesses, it is \u2014 from the perspective of the Taxpayers\u2019 Association \u2014 no longer acceptable that domestic companies are largely left unsupported while foreign competitors are strengthened using contributions from German taxpayers.<\/p>\n
While other EU member states, particularly in Eastern Europe, specifically promote production capacities and brand development in the textile sector, comparable programs in Germany are scarce. The problem is particularly that these subsidies are financed by EU funds \u2014 and therefore also by German taxpayers.<\/p>\n
Although Saxony continues to be classified as an EU structural development region, significant funds flow into infrastructure, administration, academic programs, or model projects. Traditional production businesses \u2014 especially labor-intensive industries such as the textile sector \u2014 rarely benefit from these programs.<\/p>\n
Other EU countries use the same funding pools in a much more industry-oriented and economically practical way.<\/p>\n
According to the Taxpayers\u2019 Association of Saxony, this is by no means an isolated problem of the textile industry. Comparable distortions in funding can also be observed in food processing, mechanical and plant engineering, energy-intensive medium-sized companies, and craft industries with deep manufacturing value chains.<\/p>\n
While these sectors are specifically stabilized or modernized in other EU member states, costs, regulations, and bureaucratic requirements are increasing in Germany. At the same time, funding flows into politically defined large-scale and model projects, whose benefits for regional value creation and employment are often questionable.<\/p>\n
The Taxpayers\u2019 Association of Saxony views this funding practice as a structural misallocation of public resources. If European competitiveness is taken seriously, it cannot be allowed that German taxpayers finance the dismantling of domestic production structures while simultaneously helping to build up foreign competition.<\/p>\n
There are hardly any textile companies left in the Chemnitz region that can compete successfully. Not only are wages lower abroad, but funding opportunities are also better there. (…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gegenw\u00e4rtig sind wir mit 2 ganz aktuellen Beitr\u00e4gen in der Presse vertreten. Wir finanzieren unsere Konkurrenz.
\nDen Hinweis \u00fcber die European-Funds-Finanzierung von knapp 110.000\u20ac haben wir auf der Website der Konkurrenz gefunden (Bild oben). Das Ziel der F\u00f6rderung ist es unserer\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-1","odd"],"yoast_head":"\n