With Germany’s economy sputtering and rifts within the coalition government deepening, the German finance minister and chancellor staged competing industrial summits in Berlin on Tuesday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision to summon key business executives, labour leaders and industry lobbyists to the Chancellery has been read as a sign of bitter divisions within Scholz’s squabbling and unpopular government. Scholz, a centre-left Social Democrat (SPD), pointedly excluded Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck of the Greens and Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) f…