Alfa Romeo is put in place: That will have consequences

Alfa Romeo is put in place: That will have consequences


We were sure that Lisa Paus would no longer take the award as the best governance expert of the month. As readers of the Sunday newspaper and especially the business section know, no one in the cabinet is in a position to fail more gracefully than the Federal Minister for Families, Seniors, Women and Youth – there must be plenty of time. Which we believe is an unfounded suspicion. Or do you know these great business economists or business consultants who could reduce the situation to the point of having only 5,000 additional workers so that the government will have to introduce the bureaucratic opportunities law soon?

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With the certificate practically already in his hand, Italian comes around the corner. A government official realized that Alfa Romeo cannot be called Milano if it is not from Milan. Alfa Romeo is from Milan, and has been for a hundred years, but the new Milano, which is a new model from the Milanese, is not built in Milan, but in Tychy, which is in Poland. Now it can be said that the international division of labor allows such a revolutionary step in car manufacturing and that the name Milano honors the city of the same name. But before you hear “Romans are crazy,” please pause. Basically, it’s about Parma, which is a ham that can only be called Parma if it has Parma in it and not, for example, Poland. The Italian government does not need 5,000 men for this, not even 50, just an able man who will pay attention. This is a state of efficiency. Alfa Romeo, who has no legs at all, informs buyers that the name Junior has always been their preferred choice, which is why the initiative comes at the right time and the Milano is now called Junior, also because of tradition.

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That decision will have consequences. According to a well-informed source, disaster teams have met in German car parks. VW should ditch the plan to call its next electric car the ID Wolfsburg, the preference was actually the ID Beetle anyway. And after Zuffenhausen, the state government is said to have issued a notice that, although it had been planned since 1995, the Porsche Stuttgart 21 model was no longer eligible for approval.