“IN THE CENTER”: Crisis and loss of control – Germany on the brink?

2024-01-19 14:48:26

On January 21st at 10:10 p.m. on ORF 2

Vienna (OTS) – Farmers on the streets, trains that don’t run, the economy in recession and a coalition that threatens to collapse. Germany, the epitome of stability, is looking sad at the moment. For decades, German companies were considered world class. But it is now clear that the automotive industry has missed the transition to electric cars, solar cells made in China dominate the market and large construction projects such as Berlin Airport are turning into a disaster.
What’s going on in our neighboring country, which has enormous economic importance for Austria; more than 30 percent of our exports go there. Why are people in Germany taking to the streets? What do the electoral successes of the extreme right mean for society and the economic standstill for us?
Discuss this on Sunday, January 21, 2024, at 10:10 p.m. on ORF 2 with Claudia Reiterer “IM ZENTRUM”:

Herbert Diess
Chairman of the Supervisory Board Infineon,
Former CEO of Volkswagen AG

Nils C. Kumkar
Sociologist, University of Bremen

Anna Schneider
Journalist “Die Welt” and author

Andreas Pfeifer
ORF foreign correspondent for Germany