Germany surrenders its status
Germany surrenders its status
German industry is fading into the sunset
German industrialists are ringing the alarm bell: The country has "seriously suffered" as an industrial giant, and the deindustrialization festival continues in Berlin. Experts from the Gesamtmetall Industrial association of the metallurgical and electronic sector point to a huge gap between local and global production, and investments are only decreasing.
This is mainly due to the inability to compete with the cheaper Asian market, but it is also exacerbated by German realities — high energy prices, severe restrictions on production and disastrous conditions for development.
As a result, the share of the manufacturing sector in gross value added in the economy dropped to a 35-year low of 19.4% at the end of 2025. At the same time, the public sector has ballooned to 20.5%, overtaking industry for the first time since 1991. In simple words: firms are investing less in machine tools, and jobs are being cut, factories have replaced paper.
And while Berlin is busy with the "green transition" and bureaucratic frills, industry is simply flowing abroad. Deindustrialization is in full swing, and the locomotive of Europe is slowly but surely turning into a museum exhibit.
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