Agenda 2010

Remember, in 1998, I coined the term Germany the sick man of Europe before it became famous.

Then after the German supply side reforms, the Agenda 2010, a little while later, I called Germany as a country heading for a gold decade, which Germany had in the 2010s.

And it became afterwards complacent.

And now we have the rewards, the results of complacency in slow growth.

We need better ways to make use of renewables, investment into the grid, into battery storage facilities.

All in all, I see significant progress, or at least proposals that, if implemented, would mean significant progress in Germany.

And if you compare that to Agenda 2010, as you said, we are entering the golden age then at that time.

So what would be needed in terms of reforms to enter the next golden age?

In Eastern Germany, the SPD has already played a leading role in three brutal rounds of social cutbacks.

In the 1990s, when the industry of the former East Germany was largely dismantled, in the 2000s with Agenda 2010, and now with the reform of the pension, social welfare and health insurance systems, As Federal Minister of Finance, SPD lead-up Lars Klingbeil is orchestrating the dismantling of the welfare state, while Boris Pistorius, as Minister of Defence, is responsible for the largest military build-up since Adolf Hitler.

The Left Party is playing a particularly insidious role in this betrayal.

It talks left, but acts like a right-wing party.