The key here is to have a conservative government for 16 years in a row to make absolutely sure anything innovative is made as hard as possible to achieve.
Germany was governed for the last 16 years by people that desperately want to live in 1996 because that is when their back didn’t hurt and “everything was great” (?)
Good. The whole point of a union is to band together and work towards better conditions for all their members.
“But we don’t sign those anywhere else!” is not a good argument by Tesla