Germany has been the economic engine of Europe for decades, but there are signs its economy isn't as resilient as it once was. Poverty is increasing, people struggle to pay their bills, they're quite unhappy with the government. To have politics increasingly fractured by this kind of frustrating and stumbling economy would be perhaps disastrous for a continent which needs Germany in security space.
For decades, Germany has been the driving force of Europe’s economy. But now, as it emerges from a winter recession, the nation’s resilience is showing signs of breaking down–and that could mean trouble for the rest of the continent. Bloomberg’s William Wilkes and Jana Randow join from Frankfurt to talk about why Germany has lost its economic edge–and what it will take to get it back.
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