„When people go to the supermarket, it’s their free decision whether or not to put certain things in their shopping cart“ – that’s how Konrad Stockmeier describes his view of the market economy. It has a lot to do with freedom, the FDP politician thinks. „That’s why the state shouldn’t constantly intervene in this process by subsidizing one product or another“. Stockmeier has been in the Bundestag since 2021, where he deals with European and energy policy. The 45-year-old would like the EU to think carefully in the future about what it invests in: „We can only spend each subsidy euro once„.