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    No Plan: How Germany Is Losing Its Business Model, and Why the Rest of Europe Should Be Worried
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    No Plan: How Germany Is Losing Its Business Model, and Why the Rest of Europe Should Be Worried

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    1. Turbulent_Pin7635 on

      What is their business model?

      Attract foreigners pay them the bare minimum strip their pockets in benefit of useless landlords to keep theirs young couples without employment living up to theirs 30s with their parents?

      It seems like a truly bad plan. Europe should at least break the landlords parasitic legs.

    2. Hezron_ruth on

      For decades under CDU leadership, they failed to act, and now they’re back at it, trying to roll back every fragile bit of progress. Conservatives will never forgive the progressives for phasing out nuclear power.
      In return, they dismantled Germany’s solar industry, sold dependence on fossil fuels as a necessity, and did everything they could to keep gas and coal as the main energy sources.

    3. Chester_roaster on

      We need to untangle ourselves from Germany then. Continental Europe probably can’t but the UK and Ireland should be able to. 

    5. medievalvelocipede on

      Nah. It’s a good thing when an old business model finally dies. That’s how you’re forced to innovate. Of course it’s better to stay ahead of the curve but people tend to get complacent and that includes businesses. Rent seeking instead of research and creativity.

    6. Safe_Most_5333 on

      People focus on germany, but besides the stupid nuclear energy phaseout, those problems are all pan-european and not german made. And nuclear power never actually produced much more than 10% of primary energy in germany. Germany and nuclear power are a scapegoat for bigger problems.

    8. tortorototo on

      Nice article. Very detailed. But I wouldn’t really call it a business model issue. As the analysis concluded, it’s a problem of leadership.

      German politics took the lazy approach of reliance on cheap energy and cheap workforce, hoping good times would never end. The good old “don’t touch it if it works” fallacy.

    9. catgod888 on

      Nord Stream was the end for the Germans.

      Their downfall was predictable and totally self-inflicted.

    10. General_Will_1072 on

      Don’t forget the ageing population which is inherently averse to innovation and progress

    11. PullMull on

      As far as I know, Poland is picking up what Germany is dropping atm. Could Poland be the new (or very old) central power of Europe?

    12. Exestos on

      cause we keep electing the same corrupted old farts whos only goal in life is to enrich themselves at the cost of the population, all under the banner of “conservatism” aka protecting the established lobby

    13. hecho2 on

      Germany is just to backwards for 2026.

      From privacy focus, people are ignorant regarding tech, old rules, is too bad.

    14. Mojo-man on

      I mean a big issues is not that the old business model is dying. It`s just outdated. The issue is the lack of vision or backbone for any bolder refrom.

      For example the Greens when they were partially in power last Government DID push for much needed change in energy infrastructure but the terrified conservatives did what they always do: smear them get back into power and then proceed to do f**** all and reap the praise of those changes. As they have always done.

      The central issue is the SPD though. Workers in Germany DESPERATLY need someone in their corner and the former workers party just disappeared. Similarly in the last government when the Green change agenda on energy needed backup against stalling and interference the SPD ducked away trying to appease and avoid short term pain instead of standing up for anything. Ultimately while being the really only future facing progressive party the Greens are currently not a party of large majorities. They are the party of the progressive/academic middle class. That`s only a fraction of the population.

      If the SPD can`t find their principles and backbone at some point (which it doesn`t look like) CDU stalling and AFD populisim (that will also not lead to any positive change, populists don`t do sustainable change) will continues 🤨