Locator: 44766GER.
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Issues:- most pressing: energy
- renewable energy has been a debacle, and yet Scholz soldiers on -- making matters worse
- next: sputtering innovation
- problem: bureaucratic regulation favors big corporations; not start-ups
- worse: most obvious -- automobile sector
- China's BYD overtook VW to become the best-selling car brand in China last year
- BYD's EV: costs a third of its VW rival; greater range and connectivity with third-party application
- third problem:
- banking practices archaic
- fourth problem:
- hesitating on digital technology
- despite infrastructure that had it ranked 51st in the world for fixed-line Internet speeds, it had the fourth-lowest spending among OECD countries relative to the economy’s size.
- politics:
- in disarray
- Scholz won the chancellery with the lowest level of support in the postwar era as voters ditched the tradition of handing a clear mandate to either the Social Democrats or the Christian Democrat-led conservative bloc.
- with Scholz’s messy three-way coalition racked with bickering, Germany is poised for instability, and the far-right Alternative for Germany has seized on the political vacuum, vying for second in some polls.
- comfortable pensioners pitted against struggling younger generation
- population
- and worse: Germany's population shrinking AND getting older
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