Posted on 01/28/2025 8:00:52 PM PST by anthropocene_x
Germany is stuck in a deep economic crisis amid a structural break that the country’s leading industry lobby predicts will lead to the most protracted downturn since reunification nearly 35 years ago.
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) forecasts the German economy to contract by 0.1% in 2025. That would follow a 0.2% decline in 2024 and a 0.3% contraction in 2023. According to the BDI, Germany’s expected contraction this year is in contrast to projected growth of 1.1% for the European Union.
“Industrial growth, in particular, has suffered a structural break. Order books remain empty, machines are standing still, companies are no longer investing—or at least not in Germany,” said BDI president Peter Leibinger. “I cannot remember such a bad mood in industrial companies.”
Major German companies announced more than 60,000 layoffs last year as the country’s industrial giants battled with an increasingly hostile macroeconomic environment
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Germany was having trouble
What a sad, sad story..
They don’t have the advantage of a money printer and need to be somewhat financially stable on spending, unlike US.
The downfall began since Merkel decided to import a million Arab Muslims
The downfall began since Merkel decided to import a million Arab Muslims
Solution:
No sympathy for ideologues who engage in self-mutilation.
Restart your nuclear reactors.
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Unfortunately, this option is out of question. They dynamited all nuclear reactors, due to stupid Merkel orders. They would have to start building from scratch.
So are the other options, to some degree, as many mines and power plants were irreparably closed, and dismantled.
The downfall began since Merkel decided to import a million Arab Muslims
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Yep, and the voters have no one to blame but the person staring back at them from their bathroom mirror. Soon they will have a chance to save themselves by voting for the AfD candidate Alice Weidel. If they don’t elect her they should prepare themselves for some serious hardship.
Welcome to Energiewende and the road to net zero. Energy costs sky high, unreliable, heavy industry can’t afford to do business there.
The downfall began since Merkel decided to import a million Arab Muslims
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Ignorance can result in some dreadful consequences, and they’re experiencing that with increasing intensity everyday!
,,, wiping out nuclear power was a suicidal move. Manufactuers aren’t able to sell cars so the factories should tool up to manufacture weapons. Every nation is going to need more of them the way things are going.
They killed energy. Electricity is up 40%.
What do you expect?
Turkish, mainly.
They need to build nuclear plants—no matter how expensive or difficult it is and no matter what the past history was.
They can either start fixing the problem now or watch their economy permanently collapse.
They have no excuses left anymore.
CO2 is effectively a fertilizer.
Cheap energy is a strong growth factor.
Gorebal Warming is a Good ThingTM
> When you run your country on windmills and fairy dust, this is what you get. <
The curious thing is that simple math shows that green energy alone simply won’t meet the demand. It’s not a mystery. The numbers just aren’t there.
The math is ignored. The greenies want 1+1 to equal 15. And everyone goes along with it.
> When you run your country on windmills and fairy dust, this is what you get. <
The curious thing is that simple math shows that green energy alone simply won’t meet the demand. It’s not a mystery. The numbers just aren’t there.
The math is ignored. The greenies want 1+1 to equal 15. And everyone goes along with it.
The far-right AfD party is expected to make significant gains in an election that will likely result in the formation of another coalition government.
Huh. Herr Trumpenstein is to be elected! MAKE GERMANY GREAT AGAIN! MGGA!
The German auto industry at huge expense retooled to build EVs. They found out that the rest of the world was not rushing to import these cars. Capital has no return on investment, factories sit idle, workers are laid off.Almost all “green” projects and investments go into the “red”. Economic absurdity results in misery.
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