GLOBALIZATION
From export miracle to German crisis – With Wolfgang Muenchau and comments by Sander Tordoir
New Economy Short Cut on August 18 at 16:00 (CEST)
PUBLISHED
12. AUGUST 2025
The longer the German economy has been in crisis over the past two years, the more outrageous the demands have become: do Germans simply have to work more? Should public holidays simply be cut? As Wolfgang Münchau argues in his book Kaput, the problems lie deeper – in the German economy’s strong dependence on exports. Are a lack of innovative strength and short-sightedness in energy policy ultimately also a consequence of the neo-mercantilist logic of the ‘export champion’ model?
We will talk about this in our next New Economy Short Cut:
From export miracle to German crisis
With Wolfgang Münchau, former FT journalist and director of Eurointelligence
and comments by Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform
Monday, August 18 from 16:00 via Zoom
Register here.