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German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape
ON A DRIVE around the vast production site of SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz, Germany’s largest producer of ammonia, near Wittenberg, a spokesman for the firm points at a giant yellow valve. “Normally around 2% of Germany’s industrial consumption of …