That means poverty.
Germany’s poverty rate rises to record high, welfare group says – Germany’s poverty rate rose to a record high of 16.1% in 2025, leaving around 13.3 million people classified as poor, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Paritätische, an umbrella group for charitable organizations.
The figure was up from 15.5% a year earlier and marked the highest level since comparable records began, the association said, citing official data released earlier this year.
Not just “a leader.” We’re number one!
We’re number one in having the highest EU electricity prices! And in tanking economies, too. Do you think they could be related?
Germany is a leader in renewables, so why does it have one of the highest EU electricity prices?
Germany generated more electricity from solar and wind in 2025 than any other EU country – but its prices remain tied to volatile fossil fuels.
German households pay around a third more for electricity than the EU average, despite the country’s impressive efforts to ditch fossil fuels.
Or the ones with those windmill thingies on top!
Germany news: Climate activists target tank factory – Climate activists have carried out protests across the industrial Ruhr Valley ahead of a weekend of climate action.
Climate activists target Ruhr Valley as Greta Thunberg attends protest camp.
What could that cost Germany by 2030?
And what could a zombie apocalypse set Germany back?
Extreme heat could cost Germany up to $131 bln by 2030, analysis shows – Extreme heat could cost Germany up to $131 billion by 2030 and shave up ?to 3% off economic output if ?recent heat wave patterns persist, an analysis from Allianz Trade showed on Thursday.
Germany faces losses of ?up to $131 billion between 2026 and 2030 ?if heat waves seen in the past ?decade recur, the study showed.
No de-risk, no fun?
Germany’s China problem – and why de-risking hasn’t worked.
Dan Wang of Eurasia Group discusses the paradox of Europe’s current trade strategy, noting that Germany’s efforts to “de-risk” over the past years have actually deepened its reliance on China’s supply chain.
But that Germany did too?
Or still does?
Germany supported Hamas-linked organization for years without tracking funds, audit finds – The audit concerns state funding for the organization Islamic Relief, which is purported to have ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Until 2019, the German foreign office supported an aid organization with close ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood without knowing how the funds were actually being used.
This information appears in a newly released confidential audit by Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors, which the Institute for Secular Law (Institut für Weltanschauungsrecht or IFW) has been trying to obtain for five years.
Until now, unsuccessfully.
And Germany?
In what parallel universe is this taking place?
Germany’s ‘rapid militarization’ threatens basic rights – Ten human rights organizations say security interests are increasingly being prioritized over fundamental rights in Germany. The scathing criticism was presented in their “2026 Fundamental Rights Report.”
In an era of populism and authoritarian regimes worldwide, fundamental rights are coming under increasing pressure even in Germany, a country governed by the rule of law.
The 240-page-long “2026 Fundamental Rights Report,” presented in Karlsruheon Thursday, says fundamental rights are threatened, for example, when efforts to combat climate change wane, when affordable housing becomes scarce and when technical standards on social media violate informal self-determination. But the greatest danger comes when security concerns dominate domestic policy, and lead to a military buildup.
That means suicide.
In this case, of the industrial kind.
Germany’s Slow Industrial Suicide – The climate left is achieving its goal of de-industrialization.
If the road to economic hell is paved with good intentions, don’t expect to see many German cars driving on it. Green mandates and other regulations are killing jobs in the long-revered German auto industry, as a new report from an industry association warns.
Germany has lost some 100,000 auto-related jobs since 2019, says the German Association of the Automotive Industry, or VDA. Another 125,000, or one in six current jobs in the industry, are on track to disappear by 2035.
A more radical resuscitation remedy may be needed.
Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’ – ‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,’ thinktank says.
Germany must stop admiring China’s success in the EU or it will sleepwalk into the kind of deindustrialisation the US experienced 25 years ago, a leading Brussels thinktank has said.
Whether working or at play…
Is the true “good German” way.
“Yes, I feel the guilt every day. I never get bored of it, to feel the guilt, because it’s necessary to act right.”
This attitude seems odd, even pathological. Why should someone feel a crippling inherited guilt over atrocities that were committed decades before she was born, that she was neither responsible for nor had any influence over?
That, as they say, is the qustion.
