Wifo boss Gabriel Felbermayr is supposed to advise the German government

Economist and Wifo boss Gabriel Felbermayr should be loud Handelsblatt and HE DOES move into Germany’s highest advisory body for economic policy, the Council of Experts. He therefore moves to the position of those who were eliminated Ulrike Malmendier after. The four experts in the Advisory Council are also called “economic methods”.

Felbermayr was the CDU’s preferred candidate. It is considered to be market-oriented and is also intended to close the gap in the Council on geopolitical issues, it says Handelsblatt. Coalition partner SPD was initially skeptical about his appointment, but then agreed.

The Finance Ministry wanted to keep its predecessor Malmendier on the council, the newspaper writes continued, but the CDU-led Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Chancellery prevented the extension. Malmendier resigned from the Advisory Council on February 28th.

Felbermayr, who has not yet commented on the appointment, headed the Kiel Institute for the World Economy before being appointed Wifo boss.

By Editor