German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a broadside from a powerful industry federation on Tuesday, adding to the woes of her coalition government already mired in crisis.
The "grand coalition" of Merkel's conservative CDU and the centre-left SPD "has gambled away a large share of the trust... placed in it," Dieter Kempf, head of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) told a Berlin conference.
Instead of action, the government stood for "faint-hearted implementation of piecemeal social policies and an unhealthy level of redistribution," Kempf added, according to France24.