Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Alright. But you can develop this topic further, and that means the industrial location Germany is not sustainable.
Why spend 35,000 EUR on a Golf when you can get the derivative from Skoda for 30,000? With the same technology. Or the Korean for about half the price?
Why spend 7,000 EUR on a Siemens PLC when you can also buy a cheap one from China for a fraction of the price?
Why pay 2.99 EUR for branded cheese when you can get it from the store brand for half the price?

Quite simply... because we all depend on the industry doing well. A country cannot thrive on prosperity from public service, doctors, lawyers, and merchants alone.

And if we switch everything to robots... then the next question is what we do with millions of unemployed workers.

You can think whatever you want about the nuclear phase-out, but it also came from a CDU-led government.

Although I find that too much of an oversimplification. The original nuclear phase-out was under Schröder with Trittin as the responsible minister. The CDU then just played the weather vane and shortened the original operating lives.

This forum is pretty snobby. Germany is not doing well, many people aren't either. The numbers speak a clear language, we are mostly in the lower midfield in competition comparisons. Italians, Spaniards, etc. are all significantly richer than us, retire earlier, etc.

Since Angela Merkel decided in 2015 to copy the Green Party's policies, the decline began. Currently, this is accelerating enormously due to incompetents like Habeck and Bärbock.

Urgent reforms are missing everywhere. Currently, there is only one solution in Germany, other countries have shown the way, we must vote right-wing. The AfD is an option. They do excellent opposition work and should be given government responsibility. Höcke is certainly a strange guy, but compared to him, the Greens have much more radical figures.

There is absolutely nothing shortened. Under a black-yellow government, the nuclear phase-out was mitigated in the form of runtime extensions, in fact de facto suspended. Because these runtime extensions would have allowed the existing nuclear power plants to operate until their scheduled decommissioning.

This extension was then revoked by the same black-yellow government.

De facto, the CDU, together with the FDP, thereby definitively decided on the nuclear phase-out.

This forum is pretty snobbish. Germany is not doing well, many people aren't either. The numbers tell a clear story, we are mostly only in the lower midfield in competitive comparison. Italians, Spaniards, etc. are all significantly richer than us, retire earlier, etc.

Yep. Youth unemployment in Spain around 30%. Italy is 120% GDP in debt. Only France has realized that things can't go on like this...

And whether you are "rich" because you own and live in a dilapidated condominium in Rome. On paper maybe, but you can't buy food with that.

Axo. Romania has the highest homeownership rate. I would hardly want to live there. Switzerland has the lowest homeownership rate, under 40%. I think I would like to live there... Background: In Romania, you should own property, otherwise you have to live on the street with your pension. There is no pension like here. There is something, but ridiculously little.