Because of Donald Trump’s tariffs – which don’t exist yet.

Today we are told that “the struggling German economy grew by 0.4 percent in the first quarter, twice as much as initially estimated.”

If it wasn’t for fake economic news, we wouldn’t have any economic news at all.

Beautiful German of the week.

Because somebody has to admire them.

(after we shut down our own nuclear industry so we can pretend that we’re “Green”) So, why shouldn’t they provide us with nuclear deterrence as well?

Germany’s Schaeuble calls on Berlin to help fund French nukes – Germany should contribute towards the costs of France’s nuclear arsenal as the threat of nuclear war with Russia looms over Europe, German political veteran Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview published on Saturday.

“Now that Putin’s accomplices are threatening a nuclear strike every day, one thing is clear to me: we need nuclear deterrence at the European level as well,” Schaeuble, a former finance minister who has served as a member of the German parliament for five decades, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

In Germany? No way. Or way?

Hey, saving the planet costs money. Just ask the German Greens who have introduced the costly (and doomed) bottomeless pit of renewable energy, save-the-planet regulation and smorgasbord of taxes on greenhouse gas emissions.

Germany’s export-oriented economy used to be a reliable engine for pulling Europe out of slumps. Now, as the continent emerges from a pandemic torpor, Germany is lagging behind.

German manufacturers are struggling to produce cars and factory equipment because of parts and labor shortages. They face surging energy prices that are making sky-high electricity bills even higher. And they must invest hundreds of billions of dollars over coming years to meet new clean-energy standards.

Because the numbers keep going up.

And what goes down must go down. Or at least one can hope that.

German government facing massive drop in approval, survey shows – Germans increasingly disapprove of the federal government’s performance, particularly in combating the pandemic, as coronavirus infections spike across the country.

Only 35% of Germans said they were satisfied with the federal government this April, with 64% expressing their disapproval towards Berlin. This is a massive shift from November of last year, when around 70% expressed approval.