in the case of Germany and its economic decline, there are always some excuses! sometimes it's base effects, sometimes it's the evil Russian, sometimes it's the evil Chinese, it's never the Germans themselves who are driving their economy into the ground. this economy has been destroyed by the green ideologues and all the figures speak for it...
I'm still waiting for the latest figures, but last year the German economy lost 136 billion euros in direct investment abroad. that's clear