Guess what, Lower saxony considers to buy additional shares of Volkswagen.
Blah, blah, blah, so far there was a veto right in the Volkswagen law, when someone had 20%. Now Porsche (with the help of the EU) tries to push that limit up to 25%.
What does conservative PM (coaltion with the libertarians) of lower saxony say? If necessary he will buy additional shares of Volkswagen to keep the states veto right. The same one, who recently said, he would fear for Germany, when the SPD cooperates with 'Die Linke' in Hesse.

Resembles more de'Gaulle than Reagan, or not?

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

I may add as well, that Germany was more free market orientated all the time since WW II compared with France. Less industry policy (even some very extreme free market people in Germany said, we need more of that, if the French are doing it), more independence of the central bank with a clear priority of figthing inflation, and Ludwig Ehrhard called himself a neoliberal, where the neo however really meant, that there is a difference between calssical liberalism and neoliberalism.

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers