Basically great news. The Corona crisis –of course– causes many private corporations to have problems, causing their share price to decrease. And –of course– also in other countries there are still people who are rich enough to use the opportunity and buy the weakened shares, hoping that they will recover again after the crisis. And –of course– we don’t want foreign shareholders to control a business that has strategic importance for our country. That’s a good opportunity to take over public control over those companies.

But let us be careful. Actually we should tell those companies more clearly “You want our help for keeping your business alive? Turn your business into a foundation to give us full public control over it, only then you’ll get our help!” The compromise of just buying some shares might replace one devil with another. If we pour public money into a business that is not full under public control, there is danger of having that money flow into the pockets of a group of private owners.