Denny, your glass is merely empty, really, if you come and make your posts based on particular articles. I was born, live and work (work: for about over 20 years) in Germany, in the building/construction/architecture sector (and not little 1-family-houses), which is one of
the most important inland economy sectors. And believe what i wrote or not, it is not of interest to me, especially not by a non-german who has a
clue what is going on here in reality.
And in comparison, Germany is still doing great, indeed, although i didn't claim
it is doing great at this particular moment btw. (although it is actually in the last years especially in comparison, in particular sectors, ie. in mine).
Denny, base your opinion on that quoted article as you want and playing the bad-economy-apologist for Germany.
The reality is another one here, except what i already stated in my above post, a little growth stopper en gros atm. due to export issues esp car sector which is important in Germany (very) plus the Russia-item, investment stagnation in general etc., but no real serious items for the economy et al here, i don't hear anything in this direction in the daily news, expert discussions or other related media, also ie. employment rates are that low it wasn't ever that low in Germany iirc., companies have issues to get employees etc. and offer ie. bonusses to get the youth into profession-education aka many open places cannot beset (this might be a real issue, the youngster-recruitment at least in certain branches), plus as said, the experts say here, that the investment stagnation will stop soon ... all that atm. ... i can't say that "still good economy" might not change, of course it can change to more worse degrees, but there is no real dangerous sign atm. to see at the horizon, and nobody here expects that really which i know or heard of, that the economy falls here to dangerous levels now or in near future.
That is not, that i mean, everything is so to speak perfect in regard of economy, far from that, because i'm and was always critical to the according ongoings, ie. loans and wages stagnate or merely decreased for a not little part of employee-people, that is an issue, but still, the people usually are far from being really poor.
I personally see merely only one real bad item ie. in the metropols in Germany, that is extreme increasing immobile prices and rents, so ie. students and some lower income groups cannot afford to live anymore in the big city centers or overall within the big cities and must look for the mere outer locations of big cities, more in comparison to the past, as that is a tendency for a longer time now.
And back to topic (in relation but): Afaik, it is merely stated, commonly, that Germany is the country that holds the EU together (with France) plus in principle keeps the Euro currency still quite stable, in the past and currently. But there, i'm not an expert, and thus i leave the discussion now (again).