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Europe is in decline

The German people chose their leaders to lead them.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Nothing about the impending collapse of germoney has been in the slightest "unexpected". The country has been in love with itself and it's hyper-moral green movement since 30 years and has consistently had a majority voting for left-wing, out of control socialist nonsense and down-playing the economics of political decisions for decades. Just two years ago a socialist minister reduced the early retirement age to 63, and two years later the retirement age for the nation had to be raised to 67. This deeply socialist nation loved to bask in the pacifistic lime-light, only to now discover its military is costly, dysfunctional and completely useless and needs approx. 30 years to rebuild to the same (still dysfunctional) level it had just 15 years ago. It's extreme-left government just shuttered 6 perfectly well running, CO2 free nuclear power plants and (to reduce the nation's carbon output after having signed the Paris accord without ever reading the fine print) replaced them with - now get this: Coal and gas power plants. Yup, you can't make this sh1t up!! This country is completely lost at sea and just watching the elite there consistently destroying the nation day by day by making unbelievably poor and stupid, ideologically driven decisions, is fascinating, to put it mildly. There is a plethora of smart people that have been warning about the pending demise of the country for decades, but the socialists in the state run media and the left-leaning politicians have succeeded in convincing the naive german voter that these people are N4zis and there must be disregarded and ostracized in the political process. The top ranks of the german automobile OEMs - instead of hedging their bets - wanted to play to the woke public and the state run media and decided to abandon ICE vehicles and focus solely on electric cars to accelerate the shift to EVs. Many people warned about this short-sighted approach that risked the existing core competence of building some of the best ICE cars in the world. Did those managers listen? Of course not. They wanted to be on easy street with the mainstream media and the socialist government that told everyone EVs would save the world. Now the car industry is imploding as we speak and the EV market is firmly in the hands of Tesla and the Chines. The demise of the country was clearly foreseeable and well written about for years, so no: it was not sudden and unexpected.

The whole of the EU is in big trouble, just go read Dragi Report, its not good reading. The EU is the problem with Europe, far to much red tape and taxes. The standard of living is falling every year.

Trust in fellow Danes plays a huge role too - trust in the government however.. it's like in the US, you have to pick either a douche or a turd.

rofl, "unexpected decline" - EVERYBODY who had any idea about economy knew that G. is failing since roughly 2 decades. Our best educated people leave the country and we take MILLIONS of people where the G. government itself claims, that most will never be integrated into the work force. Our energy prices soar, our infrastructure gets worse every year, our taxes are sky high. Yeah, it is UNEXPECTED that the economy will decline. Seriously?

Why is it unexpected down turn for Germany ?? Everyone knew that was coming after America destroyed the cheap energy supply to EU.

Well atleast Germany won't be getting anymore free money from the Uk, I'm sure they will be fine with their huge financial surplus!😂

The USA destroyed Germany by blowing up Nord Stream 2. The USA's fear was that Germany (and the EU) and Russia were becoming too interdependent. A threat to USA's hegenomy

*I KNOW* bring in 10 MILLION more unproductive migrants... That should FIX IT.

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Yeah, Rezession sure…this is BS. Germany is GROWING. Since April 2024 weed is legal…

Germany the leading nation in "outsourcing"... Outsourcing security to NATO and the US. Outsourcing cheap energy to the Russkies...we know how well that played out! And outsourcing manufacture to the Chinese...well what could go wrong with a one party dictatorship?!?!

Russia played them. Their politicians sold them out, but they were the ones that voted to actually leave. So Russia is satisfied did it divide them… The politicians walked off with a boatload of money… The constituents are the ones paying the price for their ignorance.. My advice is to all those people who are sleeping on the job. You need to wake the hell up….

"despite high tax" is the most hilarious sentence that keeps popping up. it's pretty clear that countries with social democracy, by far, perform the best by virtually all metrics you can find for countries. due to difference in social cohesion (partly due to size of countries geographically as well as amount) it's probably easier to make some things work these places, but there really isn't much of a logical reason for other countries to not simply copy a lot of what scandinavia is doing imo.

This is just rubbish ... you say "to understand" When you obviously do not?? This kind of one-sided "don't speeek of te germens! No one listens - even fewer relies on your blitherings ... Economics Help Global is a chinese channel - it is just harassment.

Better said something about Uk economy XD

Good video, thanks all authors. Only claiming it was "unexpected" sounds like bitter sarcasm.

Not sure why it’s unexpected, your a big country in the world and you bash China, to make things worse u’re in Europe and you bash Russia aswell. What else do you think was gonna happen?

US finally succeeded to bring down Germany by cutting off the Nord Stream and joining trade war with China , the two basic pillars of Germany's growth in last few decades. Had, Germany been a sovereign country, they could have seen the game plan of the US. And, it helped the rise of AFD. France is going the same way. A party which got 6 percent votes, got the PM post with support from extreme right Mrs La Pen. What a tragedy for EU.

I think its because they don't work hard enough! Remember Schauble and Bild when the Greek economic crash happened?

Germany has no future technology. German car industry will wither.

China is supporting its industry. Germany is supporting Nazi wars of Israel and Ukraine.

Energiewende + Russia sanctions + Wir schaffen das = disastrous management.

West all blaming Chinese but German cars are shite now they lose half their value with in 3 year's

It’s a good thing to once in a while be reminded how well we’re doing. It’s too easy to focus solely on the problems and shortcommings

Can they blame the Jews as usual? 😂😂

Come on German friends, we are each other's best partners, working-wise we understand each other quickly and together we do superlative things: roll up your sleeves and overcome this phase of uncertainty! Best regards from Italy

Unexpected? Tell which Hegemonic US Vassals and Puppets are doing well following its Master's endless sanctions and destabilization on other countries that refused to kneel down to the dictates of Washington?

German cars started as solid, well engineered machines to total money pits..over priced, poor quality..engineered planned obsolescence

GERMANY IS A HOLE. I went to germany once and the people were rude and aggressive.

It has got nothing to do with energy prices. Prices are about the same now as it was before the war.

Gas and diesel 😮

The main problem is the low fertility rate of 1.1 among white german women and the aging population… this year, one million expert german workers will retired and only 650-700 thousands will finish study and enter the job market… Germany failed to attract the right immigrants

Unexpected 😂😂😂

It seems like Germany shutting it's nuclear power plants was dumb. And the debt break rule isn't great. Especially when Debt is below 100 or 90% GDP. Construction red tape.

They killed nuclear energy and then sleep walked into supporting the US proxy war and meekly continued support for Washington despite that Washington clearly destroyed the Nordstream.

Well they decided to commit an economic suicide by stopping receiving russian gas.

When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. This is not like an asteroid came and hit these industries and gas pipes, the German government and its allies knowingly did everything that is causing this crisis.

Predictable

Unexpected?

Didn't help when they stupidly turn their back on Russia 😂😂😂, fools.

It wasn't unexpected. The moment Germany stop using Russian resources was the moment of their decline. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to calculate that one.

Is German Economic Crisis Getting Worse? Looks likely 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Even Germany is about to close down their HOME BASE " People's Car " 【VW】 since Hitler's time ！！！SAD !!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢

Simply because of equality and taxes

No cheap Russian gas? no problem ... no industries..

BREXIT BRITAIN 😂 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 >>>> EUSSR(COMMUNIST)😂😂😂

Germany is the economic basket case and the sick man of Europe. More alarmingly is that Germany is also meant to be the economic 'powerhouse' of the eu and its biggest net contributor. So much for the sunlit uplands in jolly eu land and thank god we in the UK left the eu. Thank god for brexit as Germany could drag the whole eu down with it. I noticed France, Germany, Spain and Italy, the 4 largest economies in the eu are all in the bottom 5 of the Business Location Attractiveness table in the video while those at the top, UK included tend to be non eu countries. Now that is something to worry about for the eu.

not unexpected at all