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Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln e.V.

IW

The Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln e.V.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Marco Chirullo (Acting Head of Unit Trade)

5 Nov 2025 · Presentation of the paper: “Yuan Undervaluation against the Euro: Unfair Cost Advantages for China?”

Meeting with René Repasi (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Oct 2025 · EU-China Relations

Meeting with Eva Valle Lagares (Head of Unit Trade)

26 Jun 2025 · DE-China trade and economic relations

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

2 Oct 2024 · China + analyze of their studies paper.

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Apr 2024 · Exchange on EU Building Policy and Financial Needs of the Energy Transition

Meeting with René Repasi (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Feb 2024 · Austausch zu aktuellen wirtschaftspolitischen Themen - inkl. Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der europäischen/deutschen Industrie, Berichtspflichten und Lieferkettenthematik

Meeting with Malte Gallée (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

18 Sept 2023 · Panel Speaker: Paradigmenwechsel in der Kreislaufwirtschaft – Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Produktpolitik

Meeting with Joachim Schuster (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Mar 2023 · Financing the green and digital transition

Meeting with Joachim Schuster (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Feb 2023 · Economic governance review

Meeting with Matthias Ecke (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Feb 2023 · Kennenlernen - Austausch zur Wirtschafts- und Industriepolitik

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

30 Nov 2022 · ETS

Response to Data Act (including the review of the Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases)

11 May 2022

Please find the full comments of the German Economic Institute (institut der deutschen Wirtschaft) on the Data Act enclosed (in German). Our key feedback is the following: The aim of the Data Act is to ensure that more data is available in Europe and that the potential of the data economy can be exploited. However, a balance must be struck between greater legal certainty and improved data access on the one hand and innovation and investment incentives for the manufacturers of products and services on the other. Considering this, there is still a clear need for improvement in the proposal. The great complexity and depth of detail needs to be reduced so as not to overburden companies. The protection of trade secrets also needs to be given greater focus so that European companies do not lose competitiveness as a result of the Data Act.
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Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

8 Mar 2022 · Look at challenges/opportunities for the future and links to investment - digital transition

Meeting with Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

23 Oct 2020 · Videoconference - Exchange of views on EU tax policies

Response to Gender equality in the EU

5 Feb 2020

Feedback German Economic Institute (IW) Dr. Jörg Schmidt (IW) Georgenstraße 22 10117 Berlin – Germany joerg.schmidt@iwkoeln.de The German Economic Institute (IW) is a private economic research institute in Germany, which is an advocate of a liberal economic and social order. We work to improve the understanding of how business and society function and interact. https://www.iwkoeln.de/en/institute.html The German Economic Institute entirely supports the objective of the EU Commission to pro-mote the equality between women and men and to set up a new strategy for gender equality (2020-2024). We believe that ensuring equal opportunities for women and men in the labour market should be the guiding principle for the economic-related policy areas. In this context, the following statements are focusing on the policy areas of "equal economic independence for women and men", "equal pay for work of equal value" and "equality in decision-making". The last decade has shown that substantial progress has been made with regard to the participation of women in the labour market: For example, since 2010 the employment of women has increased on average in the EU-28 Member States and the gender gap in employment rates has also narrowed in many member states (EC, 2019, own calculations based on Eurostat data, Eurostat-Database 2020). In this context, further efforts are welcomed, which especially should be aimed at setting ambitious targets in the member states in the areas of childcare and care for dependents and, in addition, at preserving the scope for flexible and individual solutions for the reconciliation of work and family life at company level. Furthermore, an even stronger focus on the causes and factors influencing gender differences in self-employment would be desirable. Additional data could be useful to monitor the underlying developments and to support political decisions (see Schmidt 2018). Ultimately, increasing the number of female entrepreneurs not only can make positive contributions to a country's economic development, but also supports the efforts in the area of “equality in decision-making" if female entrepreneurs also work as board members or managing directors in their companies. The set of indicators needs to be adjusted: The average gender pay gap, for example, has declined slightly for the EU-28 member states in recent years, but varies widely between member states. From a methodological point of view, this indicator is not sufficient to produce a valid comparison of wages between women and men since it does not take differences in wage-relevant characteristics into account. Decomposition methods not only provide a pay gap that better can illustrate the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value. They also allow a more accurate comparison of the wages of women and men who are employed in similar work contexts. The remaining pay gap (adjusted gender pay gap) „[…] is not appropriate to make general statements on discrimination, since in principle not all factors influencing remuneration are available or can be collected in a data set […]“ (Schmidt 2018, 8). Furthermore, the results also show quantifications of possible causes and can provide indications for political priorities. To investigate the reasons for the lower representation of women in executive positions, a macroeconomic perspective would be useful. To evaluate the achievement of the goals of the new strategy for gender equality and to shed light on the causes of the underlying developments, a monitoring based on a set of indicators is needed that reflects the objectives and causes as close as possible. To this end, the IW has presented some proposals for reforming the set of indicators in the above mentioned policy areas (see Schmidt 2018). This is an abridged version. For a comprehensive explanation, further arguments and details, please see the attached file.
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Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger)

28 Jun 2018 · MFF

Meeting with Ruth Paserman (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen) and Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.V.

28 Jun 2017 · “Future of the European Monetary Union – how to deepen the Eurozone?”

Meeting with Ann Mettler (Director-General Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action)

12 Apr 2017 · Future of Europe and Digitalisation

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

2 Mar 2017 · EU budgetary issues, MFF

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

6 Sept 2016 · digitisation

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President) and

6 Sept 2016 · EU economic policy

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

13 Jul 2016 · digitising european industry

Meeting with Reinhard Felke (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici)

15 Sept 2015 · Presentation of the economic priorities of the European Commission

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

6 May 2015 · Digitalisierung der Industrie