2023 Author: Eric Donovan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-03 21:17
The management consultant is supposed to represent the interests of the federal government in negotiations with Opel, but indirectly receives money from General Motors. Therefore, the opposition fears a conflict of interests to the detriment of the state.
The appointment of Roland Berger as the federal government's negotiator in the Opel case has met with sharp criticism from the opposition in the Bundestag. "One wonders for which team the test driver Roland Berger should drive now - for the Opel parent company General Motors or for the federal government," said the deputy FDP chairman Rainer Brüderle of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". "There can quickly be a conflict of interest here that leads to disorientation."
The parliamentary manager of the Greens, Thea Dückert, also rejected Berger's commitment: "The federal government is shifting responsibility for another important political decision to a management consultant," she said.
The criticism is sparked by the fact that General Motors (GM) Europe has commissioned the Munich-based management consultancy Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, founded by Berger, to develop a restructuring concept. This concept is intended to close the loopholes that the federal government had criticized in the rescue plan presented by Opel.
According to the "Süddeutscher Zeitung", Berger himself still holds around ten percent of the shares in the management consultancy. The Ministry of Economic Affairs sees no conflict of interest: "Berger has no contract with the federal government for which he gets money," the newspaper quoted a spokesman as saying. (dpa)
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