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The Good Fight

Wolfgang Münchau on German decline

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Wolfgang Münchau is the Director of Eurointelligence and a journalist focusing on the European Union and European economy. His most recent book is Kaput: The End of the German Miracle. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Wolfgang Münchau discuss why the German car industry–and broader economy–is in decline, and explore the potential political future of Germany as the country heads to the polls. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. To get ad-free access to all of The Good Fight, including full weekly conversations and frequent bonus episodes, please subscribe to my Substack [insert link: www.yaschamounk.substack.com]. This will also allow you to get Yascha’s weekly column about current events and big ideas directly into your inbox. If you are already a subscriber but have not yet set up this podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected]  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Leonora Barclay Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.0

it end? Does it have to get worse

0:37.5

or is there going to be reform?

0:39.5

Often in life, the most plausible

0:41.6

or the most likely

0:43.7

way of how decline

0:45.4

happens is for decline

0:47.3

simply to happen. It might just not be

0:49.2

so resolved. And now the good

0:51.4

fight with Yasha Monk.

1:00.0

This Sunday, a few days from now, there will be an anticipated federal election in Germany.

1:09.2

Now, German elections tend to be relatively boring and placid affairs, in which the same

1:16.2

cast of parties play musical chairs with one or two sitting out, as my podcast guest this week says,

1:24.0

and the others taking the rightful place in the government. But the elections this week

1:30.9

are going to be rather more consequential for two reasons. The first is that Germany is now

1:39.9

in a deep crisis of its basic model.

1:46.0

Its economy is doing more poorly than it has at any point in the last decades.

1:52.0

There's a genuine threat that much of the German car industry could go bust in the coming years.

1:58.6

Its foreign policy is deeply disoriented both by its long-time trade partnership with China

2:03.6

and by its reliance for security and other things on the United States.

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