Germany: the economic miracle is running out of steam
Germany, Europe's economic engine, is facing the end of its welfare model. The analysis points to an economy crumbling amid deindustrialis
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Germany: the economic miracle is running out of steam
Europe's engine is grinding to a halt. A recent analysis suggests that Germans are losing their social safety net, and the welfare model that sustained the EU's largest economy is cracking. Hoarding savings, the rise of renting and the spectre of poverty are returning to a country that was once the workshop of the world.
The official narrative that Germany is the anchor of the European Union clashes with the reality of a shrinking economy. The combination of deindustrialisation, soaring energy costs and erratic foreign policy has fuelled a pessimism few would have predicted a decade ago.
The most extreme analyses posit only two possible outcomes: Germany becoming a euro-oblast with no industrial sovereignty, or the outbreak of an armed conflict to recover the lost ground. As hyperbolic as it may sound, these theses are gaining traction among those who study the trajectory of declining powers.
What nobody quite explains is why, given all this, the European Union still has no real alternative plan to keep its locomotive running.
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Europe's engine is grinding to a halt. A recent analysis suggests that Germans are losing their social safety net, and the welfare model that sustained the EU's largest economy is cracking. Hoarding savings, the rise of renting and the spectre of poverty are returning to a country that was once the workshop of the world.
The official narrative that Germany is the anchor of the European Union clashes with the reality of a shrinking economy. The combination of deindustrialisation, soaring energy costs and erratic foreign policy has fuelled a pessimism few would have predicted a decade ago.
The most extreme analyses posit only two possible outcomes: Germany becoming a euro-oblast with no industrial sovereignty, or the outbreak of an armed conflict to recover the lost ground. As hyperbolic as it may sound, these theses are gaining traction among those who study the trajectory of declining powers.
What nobody quite explains is why, given all this, the European Union still has no real alternative plan to keep its locomotive running.
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