Key solar panel producer to stay in Germany as US plans fall apart

Irregardful whether hands have noses ... The fact that China runs a heavily subsidized, localized supply chain free of the burdens of environmental or human rights rules should be an indications that the free market will not be able to compete. Unless you ideologically really don't want industries with a future in the EU and keep us dependent on fossil fuels, [in which case you keep arguing there's a free market to be found here].

This honestly smells a bit like a failed ruse to blackmail the current German government into providing subsidies.

They apparently have more important things to do:

The announcement amounted to, “good news for Germany as a business location,” said the director of the NGO, Environmental Action Germany, stated Sascha Müller-Krämer on X, while renewing calls for a “scheme to promote the domestic photovoltaics industry.”

A German subsidy scheme for solar panels produced domestically, could not be adopted by the Berlin government, due to staunch opposition from the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), earlier in the year.

You just have to set priorities. /s