It figured it out for itself, voted and collapsed like all political economies do under the weight of so much fraud and public sector inadequacy. The UK will fall next 😂😂😂
Yup! German are smart people, but at the end of the day, the backbone of every 1st world countries are cheap labor and energy, mostly at the expense of the global south.
@@hendrx And said nothing and smiled when their ally blew up the pipeline Germany had been building along with Russia. So yeah... crazy actions, as all actions, have consequences. Terrible that it was the Greens, but hey, it has become obvious that they were not really the shade of green environmentalist thought: you scratch their surface a little and the only green you see is US dollars.
Then you misunderstood the intent of the German government. They have been trying to destroy what is left of Germany. Sadly they have succeeded. In 20 years time, Germany we know today will not exist. This is what the WEF does.
What a mess! The worst decision in the last 30 years in German politics was the ‘Energiewende’. Turning off nuclear power stations providing clean electricity, what could possibly go wrong?
@@pommesschale5440Well, the french would have paid top dollars for this "old stuff"... If you compare the condition and safety features with most of the currently operating french nuclear plants, the absurdity of turning off these highly secure nuclear plants becomes more apparent...
Germany makes it hard for skilled workers to enter, but flings open the doors for the unskilled and even criminal, who often would rather go on the dole than work. Narrenland.
Agree on this point and unnecessarily Hindus are targeted .While hindus are the most qualified, peace loving,law following and well behaved citizens.Its unnecessary.
I moved to Germany as a skilled worker and it was super easy. Compare that to the US it’s extremely easy. I really don’t understand what is everyone complaining about. Problem before was getting an appointment which with a bit of effort was also possible. Now you send digitally your docs and they send you an appointment. How can one make this any easier? 🫠
An economy based almost entirely on production of oil powered road vehicles is under strain because they are being phased out. Like making carts became a minor job .
Closing nuclear power plants was the dumbest idea ever, thinking it is good for environment, while burning coal and gas instead because there is no wind and still havent enough energy so the price rise up.
Closing nuclear power plants while buying energy from other EU nations and then losing the russian natural gas and oil through the ukraine war is the 1/2/3 power move that destroyed their finances. Toss is millions of illegal immigrants and social unrest and you have the powder keg for the rise of the right wing parties.
The most incomprehensible thing is that they truly believe how smart they are. Wokeness has rotted their minds in an incredible way. Sorry for my english, im a spanish native speaker. Cheers,
@masii22 it's not just their wokeness. They truly believed they were more efficient than everybody else in manufacturing stuff when in reality they were just overly reliant on russian gas. And they still refuse to build nuclear power.
It's not really stupidity, it's the 'Woke' culture they imported from elsewhere, personified in their Green Party and the 'New Craze' in the West of the 'Loud Minority' setting the Ton and as usual 'fabricating' out of this World scenarios of Climate Change. Imagine that somebody who cannot tell the difference between 180 degrees and 360 degrees has to make decisions on something as complex as the energy management of a country!
It is not stupidity but a lack of adaptation to change. There are probably a lot of Germans thinking that people in the rest of the world are willing to pay extra $$$ for products that are "Made in Germany". The world order has dramatically changed in the last 25 years- China is not old China, the US is not the old the US, and Germany is not old Germany. So the latency between reality and people's perception is one of the reasons. The other reason is that Germany has almost nothing to attract entrepreneurs (for the sake of preserving their culture and people). If the climate is not good for entrepreneurs then there's no innovation. They didn't realize what was coming as the "made in Germany" brand lost its value. My perception is that if they're charging me five times then the competition, it is most likely because of the higher cost of manufacturing rather than innovation and real value.
Notice they didn't talk about Energy Prices, lack of Industry and over regulation, the largest problems facing Germany. Also what about the massive issue with immigration?
Shutting down the nuclear power plants, turning off Russian gas and switching to green energy while battery technology can't meet demand were never good moves.
Turning off the nuclear energy was based on an emotional response to the Fukushima incident, totally unnecessary. Same for the Netherlands, left wing politicians blocked it for years, now they changed their mind but it's too late...
You realize that even the most modern nuclear power plants will break eventually, right? Radioactive steel ALWAYS becomes briddle and the cylinder eventually breaks. That’s why we stopped. We use more solar and wind generated energy than most of our partners as well, which is a fact nobody ever talks about.
This is nonsense, Russia turned of the gas in the end not germany, while this of course can be seen as reaction to the sanctions the underlying issue of the dependance on russian gas cannot be blamed on the ampel alone. And no they did not make the final desicion to turn of the gas to switch to renewable energies, instead russia cut of the supply in an attempt to fight the western sanctions.
Yes they destroyed Germany. This guy on here sounds like another Leftist who wants to destroy ALL of Germany. Its pure insanity to me. They need Nuclear, evict all non-working immigrants, (if not all of them since the year 2000), make it very hard for them to come back, make it much easier for people with education to come in, and enable all small businesses to grow. Perhaps even give young German-born men $500k as an investment, so they can afford a wife and children later. Otherwise, Germany won't exist in 20 years time.
@@quettagladiator5272 especially atta tamattar ke liye IMF se bhikh nahi mangna parta, aur chai patti ke liye chai ko qurban nahi karna parta lol apna khud ka dekh Quetta waale
This all is just consequence of a culture of small midness and the technological aversion of Germans. Everything I try to do this in country is the same way: slow paper work, done through obsolete processes. EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS OUTDATED!
@@djamilawilschke7259 Because it is easier to say "leave" than to actually solve problems. German government and society strictly follows this principle as well. Save brain cells stop thinking!
The Prussians are well known for having a very efficient civil service. Paperwork is necessary and it becomes much slower if you sack a lot of civil servants, as we have found out in the UK. It's a common fact that deregulation leads to corruption.
60 billion Euros for the climate stuff?!….as a non-German it’s none of my business, but if you suffer from budget deficit and lack of investments, maybe go a bit slower on the feel good expenditures?
All the schools, movies, news channels bombard the German public with climate change narrative. This has been happening continuously since the last 15 years. It is a maliciously successful example of societal programming.
I am not german, however I notice once again politicians are more concerned with politics than the welfare of there country ( Right now is not the time to have a “crisis”!)
Germany is falling fowl of two decades of weak minded energy and environmental policy, it will be lucky if it does not result in the destruction of the functioning economy.
Nordstream 1 could be repaired within months…. 2 is unharmed, it is a political decision to keep your country on negative path or reconsider your strategy.
@@katalinkozak9869 THIS is the result of a country relinquishing part of its Sovereignty to a Supranational Organization. The situation, aggravated when relinquishing a country's currency to a centralized power, The Eurozone.
The only place where logic reasoning doesn't work. We shut down our Nuclear Power stations which helped us produce energy at a low cost ..... but are now importing energy from france at an exorbitant price . Irony is ...France is pruducing lower energy prices with Nuclear Stations .
@@reinreindorf Ahh I think thoese high prices are temporary if no populists get elected. Solar energy is a lot cheaper than coal and Atom energy in the long term...
Yes, how much disposable land do you have in Germany? Can you afford to let it lie fallow for a couple hundred years till radiation levels to normal? Hmmm. Maybe you can have your own Area 51 site there, make your own aliens. By all means please go ahead. Oh and please don't dump your waste in the ocean. That's not nice to the fish, I like fish.
@a.a.5386 Japan has been making cars, even luxury cars (Lexus) for ages and I don't see any celebrity, Arab prince or Elon musk owning one. The problem is that Germany wants everyone to buy their expensive cars or walk.
Get rid of the expensive climate plans that wouldn't be going to work anyway. Restart the nuclear reactors. Fix the broken infrastructure (and let road workers work at night and in the weekend -- time is money).
The young german men fighting in the trenches in the first world war were sure "strong men". But most of them helped to create even "harder times" for germany and especially other countries and people.. so I think that phrase is too simple.. some truth may be in it.. but reality throws it all over and we should not stop our analyisis there.
The US told them to shut down all their nuclear plants at once and to go green? A lot of countries follow some of what the US does, but this is Germany's doing. Easier to blame an outside source instead of slow/foolish government.
Unfortunately Germany didn't follow the greatest economy in the planet, but one of the poorest, lured by cheap fossil energy. What could possibly go wrong🤣
I was there in 79 in the army. Germany was way ahead of Britain infrastructure wise. Clean wide streets. I’ve never been back but sounds like they’re in decline.
The nuclear power plant shutdown has been going on for a long time. You missed (whether intentionally or not) the German decision to dump cheap Russian energy.
Furthermore, at the time, nuclear supplied some 15% of Germany's annual grid. This is not insignificant but not huge either. Renewables (wind, solar biomass and hydro) actually was very significant up to 50% of Germany's annual grid at the time. Germany's fleet of nuclear power reactors were mostly all old reaching end of life. Nuclear power is amongst the most expensive forms of energy around and aging nuclear power plants need a more maintenance. The other end of the problem is that new construction nuclear has extremely high capital costs, adding to an already expensive form of energy. On top of all that, it takes 10+ years (some much longer) from start to finish to bring online just one utility-scale nuclear power reactor. Investors hate long return times on such long construction projects with such high upfront capital requirements (high risk). The population that receives the benefit don't like waiting either. Spent nuclear fuel is a big problem too. Look at Germany's Asse-II mines for a horrendous decades long problem of radioactive contamination leaking into the surround soil. It will continue to be a problem for many decades more. Humans have a terrible track record of handling their waste effectively.
@@beyondfossilreally? Why do the french pay 17 ct per kwh? And is china building thorium reactors? That could have been you. The only innovative thing out of germany in the last 10 years were vegan birkenstocks. You guys are a joke.
As an outsider, observing German politics, i would say that, of the 3 partners in the government, only FDP has been making sense lately. The other 2 partners have greatly ignored the German economy for the sake of their ideologies.
The FDP isn’t making any sense because German infrastructure is in dire, dire need of investment and the economy in need of stimulus. The FDP however is firmly opposed to creating these stimuli through debt, holding on to nonsensical, economy-choking austerity!
Greens politicians are the most disillusioned. I am saying this even when working in something related with environment. The Greens are literally punishing the citizens. They seems be in hurry to compensate the last 5-6 generation of Carbon emissions from the current generation (esp. working class). As a government, the Germans seems obliged to anti-Semitism, which is very much understandable. But they don't need to fund a war/genocide in Middle East and demand the paycheck from taxpayers. They could have played a better role as a mediator. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind and ofcourse poorer too. 😂
One of the things Europe must do is allow less American influence in Europe and start building better stuff in Europe that will make China and America want to invest in Europe more.
Europe lacks a comparative advantage in labour and energy costs and it lacks critical minerals. China and US are resource rich with access to labour and energy
All true, but this is much deeper than the three points mentioned. The economy was already heading on the downward for some time, but the government failed to address the core issues that were creating this. Lack of innovation, a reluctance by the old farts in power to embrace digitalisation, continuation of heavy regulations and China becoming a lot more competitive. The transition to green, became the icing on the cake.
Russians did a pretty good job of crippling their economy by themselves. Remember why the sanctions were established. The largest country in the world, full of natural resources, but the people are dirt poor. That's the power of kleptocracy.
I don't understand these politicians and analysts. They continue to insist that immigrants must be brought in, it is the solution to the problems. Coarse.
The German government fell apart since it was trying to meet its climate goals. Climate change has serious impacts, more in places where one least expects it.
Germany is over, the favorable conditions that made them industrious and innovative aren't insomuch there anymore, as effective and producing as before. And they don't deserve sympathy as because of Germany Europe lost its dominance and prominence in the world. EU, Europe is archaic.
- "Annual CEO compensation, adjusted for inflation, has grown at an average rate of around 5-6% per year from 1978 to 2023. During this period, CEO compensation increased by over 1,000%, while the average worker’s pay rose only modestly, at about 10-12% overall"
I worked in Berlin for a year 1977-78 at the Berlin BMW factory as unskilled but making x3 what i could earn back in Ireland /Dublin if i could even get a job then .Now young Irish people earn more than Germans especially netto after tax .
@@AshikJonathan and if it continues like this how do you see the future of workers being? You know human beings are animals right? You can't expect an animal to obey any ideology when they feel hunger, they're gonna eat. Forget the word fair and all the moralizing from the left, instead try to think practically, spread the wealth more and you won't have hungry villagers with pitchforks around your castles
6:25 is unbelievably German. Justifying bureaucracy for the sake of having bureaucracy. Rules need to exist for a reason, but Germany makes rules because they just love having rules....but that grinds the machine to a halt.
No country can survive with plenty strangers . Imagine if you put plenty peoples in your house and only you that feed them do you think you can make it?
You listened to Biden to sanction Russia. That was useless decision you made. America forced you to fight Russia and lost focus on your economic development 😂😂😂😂😂😂
IMO The Secretary to The US Treasury, Janet Yelland TOLD The Europeon Union President, Ursula von de Leyen ! German Car Manufacturing Industry. For high end German vehicles, there was a lucrative market in Russia, BUT The EU, has now passed 14 Rounds of Sanctions, THIS market is closed ! Wherever there is a vacuum in the market, another country WILL always respond by taking advantage of a business opportunity. I recommend, research the percentage increase of the number of Chinese Manufactured Vehicles, on the roads of Russia, since 2021 to date. The EU has/intends to increase tariffs on Chinese Manufactured EV's. Beijing response - increase tariffs on *pork/pork products, entering China. THIS will damage Spanish Farmers, The Spanish Economy ! *China is the largest market for pork/pork products. This creates a vacuum in the market. Currently, Russian Pig Farmers are taking advantage of this business opportunity.
The Russo-Ukraine Conflict. Due to US Funding Bills, which allocated many billions to Ukraine, the majority of the monies, paid directly to The Military Industrial Complex, which creates high employment figures, increase growth in the economy, increase in base to collect Income Tax. As far as I am aware, The EU and The UK were responsible for providing cash. The Russo-Ukraine Conflict, de-industrialized The EU Member States, de-militarized The EU Member States. Recently reported, For Germany to return to pre 24 February 2022, number of tanks, it will take until 2066. The Draghi Report !
@@FunnyBunny-pd5xx No one sent money directly to Ukraine. They are either supplies or weapon. If they really sent money, Ukraine won't be trying so hard to get grain exported.
@@cck4863 According to, Republican SEN. Rand Paul (Kentucky) "The US Taxpayers are paying the respective salaries/pensions of 57,000 Emergency Workers/Pensioners, EVERY MONTH " According to, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, "The US is sending to Ukraine, ONE BILLION DOLLARS EVERY MONTH" 12 October 2024. The UK Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Lammy, together with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, traveled to Kyiv. Whilst there, The Foreign Secretary GAVE Zelenskyy..... SIX HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS. Five days ago, German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock traveled to Kyiv. Whilst there, announced a €200 million in winter assistance for Ukraine.
You Russian bots love DW. Letting Russia annex Ukraine would be Europes biggest blunder since WW2. Appeasement doesn't work. However much Europe is hurting, Russia is hurting 10 times worse.
Fix bureaucracy first….changing governments would never fix any country…..elected representatives are for 5 years or 4 years but bureaucracy is forever( 30-40years)….huge admirer of German engineering….no one can match German people in engineering
Europe will pay the price for their mistakes - Europe wasted millions and billions for unnecessary projects in europe, which projects was approved simply to fill someone's pocket
@ that’s interesting. so Russia keeps invading its neighbors and annexing their territories one after another then accuses them of planning to invade it. That’s is so convenient isn’t it? I mean sure, Moldova was just about to invade and take over Russia.
Man if you bring your economy in a bad situation due to a not stable energy supply and prices over 800€ per MWh because the renewables do not deliver enough energy it’s no wonder.
Hmm, not once did they mention the anticipated strain on the budget by increased defense expenditures. Under Trump, those will have to go up significantly. Where is the money going to come from?
It’s very interesting that in the last few months the Germans have ended their hatred of Australia to start to dismantle the trade embargo inflicted on it by Europe for generations. The decision to have Australia supply armoured vehicles to Germany and to agree long term energy supply is a break to the embargo that has infuriated the French too.
Solving economic problems through mass immigration is suicidal. Finances have a short term sugar rush, but over time social and cultural problems are created that cause more problems than they solve. Don’t do it Germany,
No, actually most of these issues are structural - caused by Merkel’s previous 16-year administration- and brought to the fore by situational factors that affect the world economy
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The interviewer is totally correct i could not agree more and additional more on energy, work culture, and unwanted usage on taxpayer's money towards non productive political bla bla.
Taxes are not submitted by post but exclusively online for a couple of years by now. It is true that quite some places only take cash, but that isn't really a political decision. And the number of stores accepting card payment increased a lot with covid. Many German people also prefer cash for reasons I personally honestly also don't understand.
The bigest problem is that everything needs forms and paperwork to do, and isnt streamlined enoght, it feels like at least 1/3 of ore people ist just doing unneeded overcomplicated byrocratic paperwork
Tbh I am completely pro government and stuff but I like to use my paper money as a german, so the government "doesnt know" what I am buying and stuff... Not to evade taxes... In my opinion paper money should not be evicted...
@@AtAllAnAlias agreed, you must always be able to pay with cash. It just slows things down a lot when it’s too often and cash ofcourse is more prone to not be accounted for in GDP/taxes when people get creative with bookkeeping.
High input costs make German products less competitive. NO cheap Russian energy and materials makes for stuff you can't sell. NO sell = no profit= no taxes.
In the past, Germany benefited from Russia's cheap resources and China's large market. Nowadays, it needs to figure out its future
We’re getting rid of immigrants here in the US. You could try it.
Very good and succinct explanation
It figured it out for itself, voted and collapsed like all political economies do under the weight of so much fraud and public sector inadequacy. The UK will fall next 😂😂😂
Bed buddy with two dictatorships, what could ever go wrong.
It's going to be another Japan
"the underlying reason for this breakup, like a lot of marriages, it's finances" - that's the most German thing to say.
@@Lightmsgr If anything, everyone who isn't upper middle class says it more often
Also 100% true.
And taxes are the only reason why Germans get Marrid.
The biggest difference is about the words used, not the main idea...@@Lightmsgr
@Lightmsgr upper class don't say they are from upper class. You sound like a Chinese housewise married into new money.
Without the big markets in Asia and cheap energy from Russia , it is very hard for Germany to recover
and they did it to themselves
Yup! German are smart people, but at the end of the day, the backbone of every 1st world countries are cheap labor and energy, mostly at the expense of the global south.
Deranged climate activism
@@hendrx And said nothing and smiled when their ally blew up the pipeline Germany had been building along with Russia. So yeah... crazy actions, as all actions, have consequences. Terrible that it was the Greens, but hey, it has become obvious that they were not really the shade of green environmentalist thought: you scratch their surface a little and the only green you see is US dollars.
And now too late ⏰ 😢😢😢😢😢
I thought sanctions were supposed to bankrupt Russia not Germany 🤣
Harsh
Then you misunderstood the intent of the German government. They have been trying to destroy what is left of Germany. Sadly they have succeeded. In 20 years time, Germany we know today will not exist. This is what the WEF does.
Germany has been so poorly managed, it's just as well that the madness stops sooner than later
@Damili1127 yes, bad decisions have consequences
Deep !
What a mess!
The worst decision in the last 30 years in German politics was the ‘Energiewende’.
Turning off nuclear power stations providing clean electricity, what could possibly go wrong?
No, it was time to get rid of that old stuff and invest in future energies like solar power and wind.
@@pommesschale5440Well, the french would have paid top dollars for this "old stuff"...
If you compare the condition and safety features with most of the currently operating french nuclear plants, the absurdity of turning off these highly secure nuclear plants becomes more apparent...
@pommesschale5440 you build the new thing first and make sure it work First. Only then you retire the old tech. Doing it any other way is insane
@@arktseytlin100% Right ❤
@@pommesschale5440 chinese solar panels works great and affordable yet they put tariffs on it....
Germany makes it hard for skilled workers to enter, but flings open the doors for the unskilled and even criminal, who often would rather go on the dole than work. Narrenland.
Agree on this point and unnecessarily Hindus are targeted .While hindus are the most qualified, peace loving,law following and well behaved citizens.Its unnecessary.
I moved to Germany as a skilled worker and it was super easy. Compare that to the US it’s extremely easy. I really don’t understand what is everyone complaining about. Problem before was getting an appointment which with a bit of effort was also possible. Now you send digitally your docs and they send you an appointment. How can one make this any easier? 🫠
@@Skye_world88so why a lot of crime were increase in Germany
same in US
An economy based almost entirely on production of oil powered road vehicles is under strain because they are being phased out. Like making carts became a minor job .
Closing nuclear power plants was the dumbest idea ever, thinking it is good for environment, while burning coal and gas instead because there is no wind and still havent enough energy so the price rise up.
Closing nuclear power plants while buying energy from other EU nations and then losing the russian natural gas and oil through the ukraine war is the 1/2/3 power move that destroyed their finances.
Toss is millions of illegal immigrants and social unrest and you have the powder keg for the rise of the right wing parties.
Making an enemy of your chief energy provider also a pivotal moment. Self imposed troubles.
When decisions are made based in emotions that's what happens,they shot down nuclear plants after Fukushima disaster...
The FDP didn't have their 'stop nuclear' moment, here it is on debt brake.
Just as dumb as provoking a war with Russia for absolutely no reason at all.
German stupidity is finally starting to hurt them.
The most incomprehensible thing is that they truly believe how smart they are. Wokeness has rotted their minds in an incredible way. Sorry for my english, im a spanish native speaker. Cheers,
@masii22 it's not just their wokeness. They truly believed they were more efficient than everybody else in manufacturing stuff when in reality they were just overly reliant on russian gas. And they still refuse to build nuclear power.
It's not really stupidity, it's the 'Woke' culture they imported from elsewhere, personified in their Green Party and the 'New Craze' in the West of the 'Loud Minority' setting the Ton and as usual 'fabricating' out of this World scenarios of Climate Change. Imagine that somebody who cannot tell the difference between 180 degrees and 360 degrees has to make decisions on something as complex as the energy management of a country!
It is not stupidity but a lack of adaptation to change. There are probably a lot of Germans thinking that people in the rest of the world are willing to pay extra $$$ for products that are "Made in Germany".
The world order has dramatically changed in the last 25 years- China is not old China, the US is not the old the US, and Germany is not old Germany. So the latency between reality and people's perception is one of the reasons.
The other reason is that Germany has almost nothing to attract entrepreneurs (for the sake of preserving their culture and people). If the climate is not good for entrepreneurs then there's no innovation. They didn't realize what was coming as the "made in Germany" brand lost its value.
My perception is that if they're charging me five times then the competition, it is most likely because of the higher cost of manufacturing rather than innovation and real value.
It is more hubris than stupidity...
As a Dane I'm flabbergasted by the German bureaucracy and lack of digitalisation.
Why is that?
@@yaya1322 as a south african I am also amazed that germany is so far behind
@@yaya1322 Bureaucracy, 20 years of austerity policy and a general aversion for every kind of progress in the German population.
As you live longer you learn more - flabbergasted 😅😅😅
Germany is busy protecting their woman from their husbands which is not needed
Notice they didn't talk about Energy Prices, lack of Industry and over regulation, the largest problems facing Germany. Also what about the massive issue with immigration?
Isn't bigger issue with your old age population. what will you do with all the oldies
@@__s__tatic without energy a country simply cant function. simple stuff really.
you didn't listen: pensions cost a ton, immigrants generate tax revenue
I just hope trump can help you guys
We know the answers/reasons to the existing problem: Politics and green + greedy politicians, who pretend that they don't know that we know.
Shutting down the nuclear power plants, turning off Russian gas and switching to green energy while battery technology can't meet demand were never good moves.
Germania turned off the nucleare plants along with France... Washington it part of a proget?
@@robertobosetti2998 France have only done it for maintenance purposes.
Turning off the nuclear energy was based on an emotional response to the Fukushima incident, totally unnecessary.
Same for the Netherlands, left wing politicians blocked it for years, now they changed their mind but it's too late...
You realize that even the most modern nuclear power plants will break eventually, right? Radioactive steel ALWAYS becomes briddle and the cylinder eventually breaks.
That’s why we stopped. We use more solar and wind generated energy than most of our partners as well, which is a fact nobody ever talks about.
This is nonsense, Russia turned of the gas in the end not germany, while this of course can be seen as reaction to the sanctions the underlying issue of the dependance on russian gas cannot be blamed on the ampel alone. And no they did not make the final desicion to turn of the gas to switch to renewable energies, instead russia cut of the supply in an attempt to fight the western sanctions.
The greens are a nightmare.
Yes they destroyed Germany. This guy on here sounds like another Leftist who wants to destroy ALL of Germany. Its pure insanity to me. They need Nuclear, evict all non-working immigrants, (if not all of them since the year 2000), make it very hard for them to come back, make it much easier for people with education to come in, and enable all small businesses to grow. Perhaps even give young German-born men $500k as an investment, so they can afford a wife and children later.
Otherwise, Germany won't exist in 20 years time.
😂
Cost of power in Deutschland 30 cents
India 6 cents.
How do you compete !!!!
So for private use it is about 25 to 30 cent. If you are power user \ heavy industries you pay about 11 cent.
Salaries in India are also in cents…!
@@quettagladiator5272 cost of living is also in cents..!!!
@@quettagladiator5272 especially atta tamattar ke liye IMF se bhikh nahi mangna parta, aur chai patti ke liye chai ko qurban nahi karna parta lol apna khud ka dekh Quetta waale
@quettagladiator5272 cost of production cannot be so different.
Additionally, IT engineers earns better in India then Germany
This all is just consequence of a culture of small midness and the technological aversion of Germans. Everything I try to do this in country is the same way: slow paper work, done through obsolete processes. EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS OUTDATED!
then leave
@@djamilawilschke7259 Bro, really? Is that your solution or response to someone who is highlighting issues? Gosh no wonder its stifling in there.
@@djamilawilschke7259 Because it is easier to say "leave" than to actually solve problems. German government and society strictly follows this principle as well. Save brain cells stop thinking!
The Prussians are well known for having a very efficient civil service. Paperwork is necessary and it becomes much slower if you sack a lot of civil servants, as we have found out in the UK. It's a common fact that deregulation leads to corruption.
@@william_marshal Did you just drop straight out of the 1800s?
60 billion Euros for the climate stuff?!….as a non-German it’s none of my business, but if you suffer from budget deficit and lack of investments, maybe go a bit slower on the feel good expenditures?
Yep
All the schools, movies, news channels bombard the German public with climate change narrative. This has been happening continuously since the last 15 years. It is a maliciously successful example of societal programming.
Hope there are no Austrian painters out there who just failed to get into art school.😬
Ohooohhhh, you can count on it.
I am not german, however I notice once again politicians are more concerned with politics than the welfare of there country ( Right now is not the time to have a “crisis”!)
Politics is poison 🙄
Germany is falling fowl of two decades of weak minded energy and environmental policy, it will be lucky if it does not result in the destruction of the functioning economy.
@@duncanfindlay3227 - and we all know what happened last time the German economy went belly up!
Nonsense partisan comment. You don't want anything done for the environment. Admit it and don't disguise it as a pithy comment
Wait... I thought Russia was the one supposedly getting into a crisis due to the sanctions, what happened?
Honestly I'm surprised our government lasted this long... 😂
Russia is a self sufficient nation with patriotic & resilient people. No amount of economic espionage can break that. Lol😂
What happened is that you don´t hear Russians complaining because for some reason they don't dare to.
Germany went down with Russia, that's what happened. The dependency on Russian fossil energy was an unbelievably dumb move.
@@Zero95011 Russians are resilient people, alright. They don't have much choice given the poor economy.
Have they tried sending more money to Israel yet?
I think you meant Ukraine.
@ no, I did not
@@miketrago4561you should have mentioned sending more money to Ukraine, that's the issue.
they should try sending money to both, getting sex changes for thier kids, and banning meat. that's a sure fire economic strategy
😂😂😂😂
Cost of production is too high.
Cost of power!!!!!.
Nordstream is gone
Nordstream 1 could be repaired within months…. 2 is unharmed, it is a political decision to keep your country on negative path or reconsider your strategy.
@@katalinkozak9869
THIS is the result of a country relinquishing part of its Sovereignty to a Supranational Organization.
The situation, aggravated when relinquishing a country's currency to a centralized power, The Eurozone.
At least there are gay marriages
no nordstream, but plenty russian trolls
@nuurnwui, If you still had nordstream, you wouldn't have the Russian trolls.
Blame it on Russia and China. Chanting anti Russia and anti China slogans will help I guarantee you.
Germany is a synonym for bureaucracy
The only place where logic reasoning doesn't work. We shut down our Nuclear Power stations which helped us produce energy at a low cost ..... but are now importing energy from france at an exorbitant price . Irony is ...France is pruducing lower energy prices with Nuclear Stations .
The amount German companies pay for power is insane. Germany builds alot.of things and with that high power cost, production get's real expensive.
@@reinreindorf Ahh I think thoese high prices are temporary if no populists get elected. Solar energy is a lot cheaper than coal and Atom energy in the long term...
Have you even slightly looked into this topic? Nuclear energy is far from low cost.
With ZERO emissions !
Yes, how much disposable land do you have in Germany? Can you afford to let it lie fallow for a couple hundred years till radiation levels to normal? Hmmm. Maybe you can have your own Area 51 site there, make your own aliens. By all means please go ahead.
Oh and please don't dump your waste in the ocean. That's not nice to the fish, I like fish.
Germany rn is the biggest example of what it means depending on other countries too much and closing your own factories.
Not really, the poor will buy Chinese, the wealthy BMW. Ask the Chinese about it.
@@cmiguel268 You're probably right, for now..but China is innovating and going forward rapidly ..in 5 years time so much will change
@a.a.5386 Japan has been making cars, even luxury cars (Lexus) for ages and I don't see any celebrity, Arab prince or Elon musk owning one. The problem is that Germany wants everyone to buy their expensive cars or walk.
Germany is the biggest example of what it means listening to US and dumping your cheap energi supply.
@@araara4746 What are you even talking about? Utter nonsense.
Get rid of the expensive climate plans that wouldn't be going to work anyway. Restart the nuclear reactors. Fix the broken infrastructure (and let road workers work at night and in the weekend -- time is money).
"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times." Guess where Germany is now
strong men are born, not created by "the times"
The young german men fighting in the trenches in the first world war were sure "strong men". But most of them helped to create even "harder times" for germany and especially other countries and people.. so I think that phrase is too simple.. some truth may be in it.. but reality throws it all over and we should not stop our analyisis there.
@@pusben1
how men react to any one particular motive is determined by what they already _are_
@@Gravitatisnever in life bro, it's your environment that builds you...
Keep following the US blindly
The US told them to shut down all their nuclear plants at once and to go green? A lot of countries follow some of what the US does, but this is Germany's doing. Easier to blame an outside source instead of slow/foolish government.
@@jayc1139 not the US but Trump did
😂
Unfortunately Germany didn't follow the greatest economy in the planet, but one of the poorest, lured by cheap fossil energy. What could possibly go wrong🤣
In the comments section, many still deny that Germany's current problems are due to dumping cheap Russian energy.
Be real, guys!
Many fellow Germans are fooling around in that way.😂
Yep. Going to war with your own energy provider is hardly a smart move.
@@braxxian yep, giving more money to your enemy is also hardly a smart move.
@@Qnexus7 炸断油管，用更高价格卖给你油的家伙是你的朋友？发动完各式各样的战争，把难民甩给你的，是朋友？
@@Qnexus7 who is the enemy?
Nomore cheap energy 😂😂😂😂
Vladimir Putin is smiling
So are the anti-west block
The world is smiling. The cult of evil is collapsing and fighting among themselves.
It's more than just Russia mate, and to make matters even better the Afd will get into power😂
He is actually laughing
@@diegosanchez3827who is the west?
I lived there in the 70s. It was a beautiful competent country.
I was there in 79 in the army. Germany was way ahead of Britain infrastructure wise. Clean wide streets. I’ve never been back but sounds like they’re in decline.
Lots of investment. Solar panels, coal. gas storage , chip subsidies , e bikes , smart buses , hate speech . No return ?
when u waste money on green scam
The fundamental issues:
1) high energy cost
2) losing market
Many factories closed and relocated because of wars.
West loves to start new wars every year while China is financially booming.
Germans dug own grave by listening to US military complex.
I lost my previous job because of the meaningless/effectless sanction against Russia
German economic fate was sealed with closure of Nuclear Power plants and heavy Industry.
The nuclear power plant shutdown has been going on for a long time.
You missed (whether intentionally or not) the German decision to dump cheap Russian energy.
Amen
Furthermore, at the time, nuclear supplied some 15% of Germany's annual grid. This is not insignificant but not huge either. Renewables (wind, solar biomass and hydro) actually was very significant up to 50% of Germany's annual grid at the time.
Germany's fleet of nuclear power reactors were mostly all old reaching end of life. Nuclear power is amongst the most expensive forms of energy around and aging nuclear power plants need a more maintenance. The other end of the problem is that new construction nuclear has extremely high capital costs, adding to an already expensive form of energy. On top of all that, it takes 10+ years (some much longer) from start to finish to bring online just one utility-scale nuclear power reactor. Investors hate long return times on such long construction projects with such high upfront capital requirements (high risk). The population that receives the benefit don't like waiting either.
Spent nuclear fuel is a big problem too. Look at Germany's Asse-II mines for a horrendous decades long problem of radioactive contamination leaking into the surround soil. It will continue to be a problem for many decades more. Humans have a terrible track record of handling their waste effectively.
@@beyondfossil your essay is inacurate and not even vaguely useful
@@beyondfossilreally? Why do the french pay 17 ct per kwh? And is china building thorium reactors? That could have been you. The only innovative thing out of germany in the last 10 years were vegan birkenstocks. You guys are a joke.
As an outsider, observing German politics, i would say that, of the 3 partners in the government, only FDP has been making sense lately.
The other 2 partners have greatly ignored the German economy for the sake of their ideologies.
The FDP isn’t making any sense because German infrastructure is in dire, dire need of investment and the economy in need of stimulus. The FDP however is firmly opposed to creating these stimuli through debt, holding on to nonsensical, economy-choking austerity!
@@mark9294 I agree. I don't get the FDP on this at all. At the same I would agree that this is not the time for Green policies.
Greens politicians are the most disillusioned. I am saying this even when working in something related with environment.
The Greens are literally punishing the citizens. They seems be in hurry to compensate the last 5-6 generation of Carbon emissions from the current generation (esp. working class).
As a government, the Germans seems obliged to anti-Semitism, which is very much understandable. But they don't need to fund a war/genocide in Middle East and demand the paycheck from taxpayers. They could have played a better role as a mediator. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind and ofcourse poorer too. 😂
Lindner jumped the sinking ship in hope of taking part in a new coalition
Go woke Go broke
One of the things Europe must do is allow less American influence in Europe and start building better stuff in Europe that will make China and America want to invest in Europe more.
Europeans love their vacations too much and relaxed work culture for that
Europe lacks a comparative advantage in labour and energy costs and it lacks critical minerals. China and US are resource rich with access to labour and energy
As an American I agree. Please
@@fabianabongo6284who’s fault is the marriage of your energy to the people killing your own people
Russia
@@zs5002Other way around Productivity is at an all time high
energy costs, immigration, and support of war are draining the economy.
All true, but this is much deeper than the three points mentioned.
The economy was already heading on the downward for some time, but the government failed to address the core issues that were creating this.
Lack of innovation, a reluctance by the old farts in power to embrace digitalisation, continuation of heavy regulations and China becoming a lot more competitive.
The transition to green, became the icing on the cake.
add to that possible trump tariffs. KO
you didn't listen: PENSIONS are draining the economy and immigrstion is too slow to generate the taxes to pay for your old people
Hey DW and German goverment, say your thing!
DW and GG:
IT'S PUTIN'S FAULT
😂😂😂😂
DW = German government. Public broadcast = news regulated by government officials and party members
Germany was so focused on crippling Russian economy that they forgot to manage their own economy.
Germany was focused on growing a reliance on Russian energy. Clueless leaders trusting Putin.
Germany made themselves thanks to the cheap Russian gas, it was the backbone of their economy.
Russians did a pretty good job of crippling their economy by themselves. Remember why the sanctions were established. The largest country in the world, full of natural resources, but the people are dirt poor. That's the power of kleptocracy.
@@awlexGerman was Fine while buying russian oil. Now theres famine in germany
@@awlexIt wasn’t Putin who imposed the sanctions and cutoffs oil and gas (and blew up the NS).
Problem for Germany is it's still occupied from WWII
What a mess, not so smart afterall.
Germany and Europe really did this to themselves
I don't understand these politicians and analysts. They continue to insist that immigrants must be brought in, it is the solution to the problems. Coarse.
Olaf was an accident waiting to happen 😮
Well, Germany, you got what you gave.
So basically Germany lost its Natural Gas pipeline and down goes the economy
So much loss for being a US ally. That's why my country followed non alignment. Now we are the fastest developing economy.
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
- Henry Kissinger
@@johnnywalker2870How does this crisis have to do with the United States?
putin said the pipe could be repaired but they refused..... so everything is self inflicted, can't blame others
@Queenofcommentsv2 US destroyed Nord Stream and forced Germany to, among other things, purchase their energy at 4-5 times the cost.
As a painter I am very frustrated with the current situation of germany 😕
House painter or artist 🎨 ?
@davidkottman3440 artist
Thanks, just curious...hope you find success!
@@davidkottman3440 thanks 👍
I am from Austria working as a painter too 😅
The German government fell apart since it was trying to meet its climate goals. Climate change has serious impacts, more in places where one least expects it.
Greta will save you!
Climate change POLICIES have serious impacts.
@@pw3858 Yeah - the ecosystem is a continuous system and doesn't understand political machinations!
Germany is over, the favorable conditions that made them industrious and innovative aren't insomuch there anymore, as effective and producing as before. And they don't deserve sympathy as because of Germany Europe lost its dominance and prominence in the world. EU, Europe is archaic.
The Germans are tough people. Hard working and well educated. They’ll figure things out.
It's a slow process, not all of a sudden, without back-up.
@@go4it129hope so.
@@go4it129 agreed, they will rise again
Keep giving money to Ukraine 😂😂😂😂
High energy prices. Who blew up N0RD$tream?
Die Ampel muß weg.
- "Annual CEO compensation, adjusted for inflation, has grown at an average rate of around 5-6% per year from 1978 to 2023. During this period, CEO compensation increased by over 1,000%, while the average worker’s pay rose only modestly, at about 10-12% overall"
Ofc...workers get market rates...
There are far less CEOs and risk takers than regular workers.
This is not the case for Germany like america. Average CEO is 15-20x the worker in a 1000+ person business.
I worked in Berlin for a year 1977-78 at the Berlin BMW factory as unskilled but making x3 what i could earn back in Ireland /Dublin if i could even get a job then .Now young Irish people earn more than Germans especially netto after tax .
@@AshikJonathan and if it continues like this how do you see the future of workers being? You know human beings are animals right? You can't expect an animal to obey any ideology when they feel hunger, they're gonna eat. Forget the word fair and all the moralizing from the left, instead try to think practically, spread the wealth more and you won't have hungry villagers with pitchforks around your castles
@@Idontwantahandle3
MAGA!!!
Like in the 1950s and 60s when the top tax rate in the US was 90% on every penny earned over 3 million USD per year.
6:25 is unbelievably German. Justifying bureaucracy for the sake of having bureaucracy. Rules need to exist for a reason, but Germany makes rules because they just love having rules....but that grinds the machine to a halt.
Maybe they should leave the EU?
😂😂😂😂
Yes they shouldn't fund EU anymore
Germany IS Eu.
Maybe link up with the UK and start their own club?
It's not the solution
Sanctions backfiring
But that means they are working.
@@sturmx96yes working, but not the way they wanted it to work 😂
@@sturmx96 yes, yes, working in reverse 🤣
no. trusting russia is backfiring
Putin had a good time laughing right now for real
No country can survive with plenty strangers . Imagine if you put plenty peoples in your house and only you that feed them do you think you can make it?
Yeah, lets expels all 9% of immigrants in germany. This will reduce the energy cost from US, and maybe will sell more cars too in CN 😂.
Don't blame it on the strangers. Blame it on your stupidity for listening to warmonger Biden. He destroyed your Nordstream while you are watching
That not how modern economies work Mrs, get back to your housewife job and stop talking nonsense
You don't have money but funding a war aboard....says it all
German need to SEND MORE MONEY to UKRAIN, Olaf..
Good move, Olaf 👍👍👍 Genius
Kaputt
You listened to Biden to sanction Russia. That was useless decision you made. America forced you to fight Russia and lost focus on your economic development 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You don’t contribute your fair share to NATO (2%), and you don’t want to listen to Biden? Can’t have your cake and eat it too my friend.
IMO
The Secretary to The US Treasury, Janet Yelland
TOLD
The Europeon Union President, Ursula von de Leyen !
German Car Manufacturing Industry.
For high end German vehicles,
there was a lucrative market in Russia,
BUT
The EU, has now passed 14 Rounds of Sanctions,
THIS market is closed !
Wherever there is a vacuum in the market,
another country WILL always respond by taking
advantage of a business opportunity.
I recommend, research
the percentage increase of the number of
Chinese Manufactured Vehicles,
on the roads of Russia,
since 2021 to date.
The EU has/intends to increase tariffs on
Chinese Manufactured EV's.
Beijing response - increase tariffs on *pork/pork products,
entering China.
THIS will damage Spanish Farmers,
The Spanish Economy !
*China is the largest market for pork/pork products.
This creates a vacuum in the market.
Currently,
Russian Pig Farmers are taking advantage of this business opportunity.
The Russo-Ukraine Conflict.
Due to US Funding Bills,
which allocated many billions to Ukraine,
the majority of the monies, paid directly to
The Military Industrial Complex,
which creates
high employment figures,
increase growth in the economy,
increase in base to collect Income Tax.
As far as I am aware,
The EU and The UK were responsible for providing cash.
The Russo-Ukraine Conflict,
de-industrialized The EU Member States,
de-militarized The EU Member States.
Recently reported,
For Germany to return to pre 24 February 2022,
number of tanks, it will take until 2066.
The Draghi Report !
@@FunnyBunny-pd5xx
No one sent money directly to Ukraine. They are either supplies or weapon. If they really sent money, Ukraine won't be trying so hard to get grain exported.
@@cck4863
According to, Republican SEN. Rand Paul (Kentucky)
"The US Taxpayers are paying the respective salaries/pensions of 57,000 Emergency Workers/Pensioners, EVERY MONTH "
According to, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene,
"The US is sending to Ukraine, ONE BILLION DOLLARS EVERY MONTH"
12 October 2024.
The UK Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Lammy, together with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, traveled to Kyiv.
Whilst there, The Foreign Secretary GAVE Zelenskyy..... SIX HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS.
Five days ago, German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock traveled to Kyiv.
Whilst there, announced a €200 million in winter assistance for Ukraine.
Congrats to Germany for blindly obeying America!
Zelensky : don't forget to send my money 😏
😂😂😂😂
bot
Troll forgot they need to send money because they allowed Putin to build an army first by buying gas from him.
Austrian boy who reject from art school : do you need me , germany ????
I guess choosing to fight both your main industries and your main supplier of the most critical industrial input was not a smart choice right ?
Go woke go broke
FDP is not woke 😉 Their ideology of low taxes and no debts were paralyzing zhe government
China slowdown, Russia oil ban, Green transition tripple attack might have caused this mess.
Just like the other "transition" enthusiasts and wreckless pioneers too often regret and deny the real cause.
Hard to take economists, who say that we need more immigration to save the welfare state, serious in 2024.
Stop throwing away your money onto the Ukraine dumpster fire
You Russian bots love DW. Letting Russia annex Ukraine would be Europes biggest blunder since WW2. Appeasement doesn't work. However much Europe is hurting, Russia is hurting 10 times worse.
After breaking the entire continent, Germany falls into a trap of its own making.
Nah it’s global forces at work. It’s global Industrial Revolution into digital and electric. Fossil fuels only for the major powers.
When you put Germany and the German people first then your problems will begin to go away
If politicians would think like normal people...
Switch to fashion and tourism.
Fix bureaucracy first….changing governments would never fix any country…..elected representatives are for 5 years or 4 years but bureaucracy is forever( 30-40years)….huge admirer of German engineering….no one can match German people in engineering
Europe will pay the price for their mistakes - Europe wasted millions and billions for unnecessary projects in europe, which projects was approved simply to fill someone's pocket
Blind green orthodoxy, lack of leadership/competence, lack of macroeconomic awareness and hubris, the recipe for the downfall of any economy.
NATOs plan to invade Russia has backfired 😂
@@iROChakri Wait Wtf?!🥸 who invaded who again?!
@ that’s interesting. so Russia keeps invading its neighbors and annexing their territories one after another then accuses them of planning to invade it. That’s is so convenient isn’t it? I mean sure, Moldova was just about to invade and take over Russia.
@@TheLordFrog These are bots employed by kremlin - the war is not just in Ukraine it's here on the internet too.
@@ryusuf3409This one gets it. 👏
Mismanagement of finances. Genius.
ROLOL and the EU is worried about China 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man if you bring your economy in a bad situation due to a not stable energy supply and prices over 800€ per MWh because the renewables do not deliver enough energy it’s no wonder.
Germany, useless mess.
Hmm, not once did they mention the anticipated strain on the budget by increased defense expenditures. Under Trump, those will have to go up significantly. Where is the money going to come from?
What goes around , comes around
It’s very interesting that in the last few months the Germans have ended their hatred of Australia to start to dismantle the trade embargo inflicted on it by Europe for generations. The decision to have Australia supply armoured vehicles to Germany and to agree long term energy supply is a break to the embargo that has infuriated the French too.
Heheh Germany was listening to much to the Usa. The whole Erurope will colaps if they dont take care of them selfs.
Solving economic problems through mass immigration is suicidal. Finances have a short term sugar rush, but over time social and cultural problems are created that cause more problems than they solve. Don’t do it Germany,
Before German was doing so well economic,but since this regime get in power they involved a lot in politics thats cost the country alot of cash.
No, actually most of these issues are structural - caused by Merkel’s previous 16-year administration- and brought to the fore by situational factors that affect the world economy
@@mark9294 ok
Austrian school > Frankfurt school
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The reality is, Germany has collapsed already.
Nice Analysis.
why is it that DW has only USA people asking questions trying to explain the conditions in Germany. . strange perspective.
Hahahahahahahaha
Trump became POTUS, and Germany crumbled, and the economy went down the drain.
The interviewer is totally correct i could not agree more and additional more on energy, work culture, and unwanted usage on taxpayer's money towards non productive political bla bla.
germany is a retirement home
+ Museum
Stop following US foreign policy ffs, that goes for the rest of EU as well as
Germany always feels so archaic coming from the Netherlands. Taxes are still submitted by post and many places you can only pay with cash…
Taxes are not submitted by post but exclusively online for a couple of years by now. It is true that quite some places only take cash, but that isn't really a political decision. And the number of stores accepting card payment increased a lot with covid. Many German people also prefer cash for reasons I personally honestly also don't understand.
@ Thanks for clarifying and good to see some progress in these areas!
The bigest problem is that everything needs forms and paperwork to do, and isnt streamlined enoght, it feels like at least 1/3 of ore people ist just doing unneeded overcomplicated byrocratic paperwork
Tbh I am completely pro government and stuff but I like to use my paper money as a german, so the government "doesnt know" what I am buying and stuff... Not to evade taxes... In my opinion paper money should not be evicted...
@@AtAllAnAlias agreed, you must always be able to pay with cash. It just slows things down a lot when it’s too often and cash ofcourse is more prone to not be accounted for in GDP/taxes when people get creative with bookkeeping.
High input costs make German products less competitive. NO cheap Russian energy and materials makes for stuff you can't sell. NO sell = no profit= no taxes.