Published: 24 Sep 2014 - 07:31 am | Last Updated: 20 Jan 2022 - 09:14 pm
President of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) Ulrich Grillo (centre) with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (left) and French Economy and Industry minister Emmanuel Macron at the BDI’s Day of the German Industry conference in Berlin yesterday. Valls sought to convince Germany that Paris is serious about making its economy more competitive, declaring that France “is not the sick child of Europe”.