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Germany is descending into chaos – and it will take the rest of the eurozone down with it
MSN ^ | 15 June 2024 | Matthew Lynn

Posted on 06/15/2024 12:03:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan

It is now little more than a “developing country”. Its stock market is a “junk shop” selling old tat. And its reputation as a place to do business has “never been so bad’. In the middle of the UK’s dismal election campaign, it would be easy to imagine that Britain was the country under discussion.

But Theodor Weimer, the head of the once mighty Deutsche Börse, was describing his native Germany. And he was absolutely right. After a series of catastrophic policy mistakes by centrist leaders, there is no way back for Germany – and its decline is only going to accelerate from here.

In a speech to Bavarian business leaders delivered back in April, but only made public when it was posted on YouTube this week, Weimer certainly didn’t mince his words. A country that prided itself on its efficiency, that saw itself as the engine of Europe and boasted of its formidable export machine was, as he put it, slipping to third world status.

The coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz was, he argued, a “catastrophe”, Germany was “economically on the way to becoming a developing country” and “one thing is clear: our reputation in the world has never been so bad“.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: asylum; catastrophe; commerce; eu; europe; germany; illegals; immigration; migration; policy; refugees; wishfulthinking
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To: ansel12
The blown gas lines are what were supplying Germany with gas?

Correct.

61 posted on 06/16/2024 4:10:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: tballard56

What good would deindustrislizing Europe do?

Asia is the industrial center of the world.

We won’t even pump all our oil?


62 posted on 06/16/2024 4:41:24 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: DoodleBob
“one thing is clear: our reputation in the world has never been so bad“.

...and it's because of them damned JEWS!!!

63 posted on 06/16/2024 4:47:13 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sirius Lee

Then Russia had stopped supplying Germany by the time they were blown, so they weren’t.


64 posted on 06/16/2024 6:15:40 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Rummyfan

Like Wilkow says, you can’t bring there to here without here becoming there.


65 posted on 06/16/2024 6:41:13 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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