I have been dealing with Germany and German economic history extensively. The German economy has always responded to international challenges by transferring less developed industries and less efficient production to other countries, and setting out to expand developed, high-technology areas of the economy instead. So if German businesses appear in Hungary or another Eastern Central European state, it does not simply mean they have found better chances for investment here than at home cheap labour, tax concessions and so on. At the same time, they are contributing significantly to defending jobs in Germany. The Audi company, for example, which is pursuing extremely useful and extensive activity in Hungary, is investing the profits obtained here in a way that safeguards and indeed increases the jobs in its German factories.
Capital is an international category.
There is no standing in its way, because to do so will kill off the market economy. If the capital does not come to this country, it will go elsewhere. If it does not find favourable conditions at home, it will go abroad. So we have a common European interest in ensuring that European capital finds favourable conditions here, in Europe. This is also vital because Europe is tending to fall behind in the great world economic contest.