Robert Habeck responds to The Economist’s “sick man of Europe” cover
The symptoms are milder than our diagnosis would suggest, says Germany’s economy minister
GERMANY IS ONCE again being talked about as the sick man of Europe. Whilst The Economist—with the courtesy of the British—appended a question mark, some Germans are in full Angst mode, shouting it in capital letters with exclamation marks.
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