Habeck wants to strengthen Germany as a pharmaceutical centre
Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck wants to strengthen Germany as a centre for pharmaceuticals. The Green politician held out the prospect of state aid for the establishment of production sites for critical healthcare products. Habeck embarked on a two-day "pharmaceutical tour" on 29 April 2024 and visited companies in Hesse, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
In recent years, there have been repeated supply bottlenecks for some medicines such as antibiotics. Following a meeting with medium-sized companies in Frankfurt, Habeck said that there were good reasons for not only having vital products produced abroad, in Asia or China. If you want production in Germany, „then we have no choice but to support these companies financially“, he said with a view to more favourable production conditions, especially in Asia.
With the German government's pharmaceutical strategy, there is a certain directional decision that critical healthcare products should be produced in a certain quantity in Europe or Germany.
Press release from the "Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection" dated 29 April 2024
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