Westphalian maker of household appliances Miele, who has been a household personification of German technology for generations, moves its production to Poland. In Germany, energy costs are far besides high.
In addition, the economy suffers from regulation and bureaucracy, says the head of Markus Miele. The company turns its back on the national Republic of Germany. 2000 jobs will be eliminated. The bad news is shocking. The Germans are disindustrializing themselves.
While tens of thousands of people go out on the streets “against the right” and fear the return of national socialism, the manufacturing industry, as Focus magazine writes, “burns”. The chemical manufacture itself has lost 23 percent of its production in 2 years. large corporations, from BASF and Bayer to Conti and Volkswagen, announce mass layoffs. The successful worldwide transmission mill ZF Friedrichshafen eliminates 1,200 jobs.
The origin of exodus and economical poorness is well known: Germany departs from the successful principles of the postwar period. Reckless and likely besides somewhat indifferent after decades of prosperity and superb success, The Germans forgot the marketplace economy, blew up their country and elected ideologists, dreamers who had strong convictions but small thought of making money.
Must Germany go bankrupt before anything changes? The alarming number of people now responds to this disturbing question. alternatively of solving or at least recognising problems, established parties get lost in tiny disputes. Fever attacks of hysteria shake the political establishment, most late the “revelations” of the left-wing activist portal, which now gradually turn out to be false news. Yet, almost all pray faithfully.
He wishes Germany more peace, more Republican confidence. But you can see the opposite. The confusion is common, already nested in language. "Democrats Against the Right" is now a popular conflict cry of the establishment, which, however, takes the form of an ad absurd, because democracy, in which only left-wing and not right-wing can be left-wing, is not democracy, but left-wing despotism.
Meanwhile, bourgeois media specified as NZZ and Frankfurter Allgemeine have besides noted this. Gradually, they find that the "fight with the right" in which CDU/CSU and FDP so willingly participated will yet turn against them. Politologists will 1 day gotta examine what happened on conventional bourgeois parties and newspapers standing other them, that they were caught in the wheelchair of the left.
The European Union is becoming an expanding problem for German prosperity. After the last planet War, the EU ceased to be a trustworthy substitute for its homeland, and It has become a bureaucratic nightmare and a threat to democracy. W Brussels everyone is liable for everything and nobody is liable for anything.
In 1980, the national Republic of Germany and the United States were on an equal footing in terms of per capita wealth. Germany is presently 40 percent behind. This is besides related to the EU. She was incapable to keep her most crucial promise: to make the most productive and competitive single marketplace in the planet through the free trade area. Seventeen of the 27 EU associate States are presently in a worse position than the poorest in the US, Louisiana. No wonder there is simply a panic among the German elite.
Germany is on the verge of an economical collapse. The EU is inactive falling behind in terms of growth. Green dreams of a complete ecological restructuring of a erstwhile large manufacture according to the script of a Dutch longtime officer Frans Timmermans They don't bring much joy. alternatively of working, Brussels is becoming increasingly authoritative. The difference of opinion is unwelcome. Cross-dressing members who only exercise their basic right to disagree are under tremendous pressure.
What's next? In Germany it becomes obvious, there is incompetence. The national Republic of Germany can no longer afford green experiments. The policy of confrontation with Russia is besides destructive. This is not in the interests of Germany. This does not mean that Putin's strategy is justified, but without inexpensive natural materials from the East the German economy is threatened with asphyxiation. Returning to common sense in this case besides is long overdue.
Ludwig Erhard, the father of the founder of the social marketplace economy, diagnosed the Germans who showed the highest virtue in need. The question is whether he can meet the hours of happiness. The biggest stupidities always happen, in the family, in business, in politics, erstwhile people do besides well.. People get cocky, reckless. They imagine that they can reinvent the wheel, that they can throw the proven rules overboard.
Germany would gotta return to the successful model of the early national Republic of Germany: political modesty, social marketplace economy, surviving culture of debate from left to right, strong national states and, most importantly, a abroad policy linking the East to the West. Konrad Adenauer was pushing for Western relations, Willy Brandt He sought compromise with the East. The erstwhile national Republic of Germany was a force for peace – with an intact Bundeswehr. Recipes are available. Now there's adequate courage to implement them.
Roger Köppel
Photo: protest by German farmers (wikipedia)
‘Die Weltwoche’ (Switzerland)
