This next storyline needs context to understand appropriately what just happened.
In February of this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz travelled for the first time in his business and life to China. Merz a lawyer by training, worked in business and corporate life doing mergers and acquisitions (Blackrock), but had never been to China. Despite his upward climb in German politics, his worldview was always dominated by an internal acceptance that Germany was the industrial heart of the European Union.
Chancellor Merz believed that Germany was unrivaled within industrial manufacturing, particularly in aeronautics and mechanical engineering (auto sector). So, when Merz went to China -while he held no trade capabilities as an outcome of the EU collective controlling everything- he also had no idea what Chinese industrial capacitary actually looked like.
To say Chancellor Merz was stunned by the advancements in robotics and industrial manufacturing within China would be an understatement. Merz was shocked not only by the technological capability, but also by the Chinese industrial work ethic and capabilities of the workforce.
Merz returned to Germany and immediately began discussing how Chinese industrial capacity was far beyond anything he previously estimated. Merz was shook. His reaction was, essentially, the #1 industrial nation within the EU confronting a reality of years of industrial complacency. Immediately he began talking about how things in Germany must change; how the German workforce must immediately start to get serious about productivity and production capacity.
That was late February and early March.
Today, Friedrich Merz announced a series of reforms, radical modifications within the German industrial workforce.
German workers are no longer allowed to call in sick. The German government will now adopt a policy to make sure all workers report to their jobs, or else.
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The German workforce may not like this at all.
There is a certain, shall we say, “Fascist irony,” when you think about mandated private sector productivity compliance and the relationship with official government policy.
Germany’s coalition government has announced a wide-ranging package of pension, tax and labor reforms aimed at boosting economic growth and strengthening competitiveness. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the measures would create jobs, reduce bureaucracy and preserve key social welfare protections.
The 34-point plan includes income tax relief for low- and middle-income households as well as a gradual increase in the retirement age.
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the greatest story never told, part 2
Germany surrendered its sovereignty (AND MANHOOD) when they did NOTHING in response to the Nordstream pipeline destruction. 🙁
Hmmmmm. Funny that!….,
Make Germany Industrious Again?
While cooperating with the Secret Societies to deindustrialize German Industry and scavenge upon the rotting carcass like George Soros on a Wednesday? While taking on the dead weight of Islamic invaders? And poking Russia with a stick?
You mad, Fritz?
The unions will have his guts for garters.
Hopefully
like invading poland without tanks.
Arbeit macht frei 2026
This is what happens when you don’t have a world view. Countries that sit on their hands thinking they will be powerful forever will eventually find out they lost opportunity.
Oh, they have a world view. TheGipperLives summarized it comment before yours.
And ShainS took a good whack at it next comment down.
OUT: “You vill eat ze bugs.”
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: “Arbeit macht frei.”
How’s that European style “socialism” working out for you now? At least they get “free” health care to get the Drs note to call out of work. Maybe that goes away soon too. They probably just need more windmills.
Climate insanity = no investment in industry
Can’t call in “sick”, if it’s communicable that’s a really bad idea. Your entire workplace will
serve as a petri dish for respiratory or gastrointestinal illnesses. The policy will not enhance but diminish productivity.
That’s only one grave misjudgement from Merz.
I’m sure those crappy masks will solve that problem. Definitely this time.
Seriously!!!!!
Since the USA freebies have stopped, a dose of reality has been administered globally. I’m not sorry, we were being bled dry by WEF.
Will Merz’s new rules apply to the invading hordes, all those neurosurgeons and nuclear physicists?
While the industrious native Germans are off being more industrious, the vibrant newcomers will be happy to watch over their flock, their towns, their families.
Auctung!
EU’s only concern is more migrants
They might consider their power sources and ditch the green new deal garbage and produce some energy.
That happens when you’re kept in a bubble. First Angela, the Fred. What else can Germany expect?
From the “context”, German execs clearly indulged the “sick-can’t come in” plea. Just another feather-bedding trick to get paid for doing nothing which placading the unions.
I’d say Mertz was growing a set, although it’s hard to make something out of nothing.
And I’ll tell you what actually happens next:
“HE goes.”
With a whimper, not with a shout.
Not because of what “he suddenly discovered,” a few months ago, but because of years prior.
The liberals ruined German cars by over regulations. The same problem US car manufacturers have been relived of by President Trump.
I hope Merz will change his opinion of coal power after his China trip, and will approve more coal power for Germany.
“Last year [2025], China installed almost 70 gigawatts of new coal power capacity more than it took off the grid.” ( From the Feb. 27, 2026 article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2026/02/27/chinas-new-coal-power-installations-reach-18-year-high/ )
Merz – taken in largely by Chinese propaganda.
He’s never watched the YT show called The China Show which shows the action behind the rice curtain in China.
The show airs with new episodes Fridays 5 pm eastern time. https://www.youtube.com/@thechinashow
This is the basic question how the Germany going to advance when they believe in the phony green energy scam. Without energy you don’t have anything.
Germany is supposed to have world class engineers.
There’s no escaping the laws of thermodynamics or economics. Industry needs lots of inexpensive energy.
Interesting. I have a German colleague who is running a project to close a manufacturing site. He said the big thing for them was getting approval from the Worker’s Council which seems to mean ensuring they either find them jobs or give them large severance packages. I wonder what the workers council will think of this.
europe is f**ked
Interesting…Merz as attorney was over M&A with Blackrock prior. He must have been the typical bean counter without a clue how the business runs.
Merz as Chancellor of Germany is just now figuring out that China has been
successfully playing the role of proverbial Blackrock.
Germany is the prized take-over acquisition.
Or maybe the fire-sale acquisition….you know, 10-cents on the dollar.
It’s now like the Board of Directors (Germany’s administration) has figured out they were supposed to keep running the business no matter what.
When the DW news gal listed Germany’s longterm problems, she didn’t mention the muslims who are raping and knifing people, and using cars to mow down groups of people.
Perhaps just an oversight.
Are you referring to those ‘Tanned Europeans’?
If Germany had not imported the 3rd world .
If Germany had decided not to go green, net zero, shut down nuclear power
If they had not blown up cheap oil and gas imports from Russia.
The German workforce did not do any of it, but now they have the consequences
of all those bad decisions.
Welfare (Bürgergeld): Of the 3.92 million employable individuals collecting basic “citizens’ money” (unemployment and state welfare benefits), 62.5% possess an immigrant background . [1]
General Welfare Spending: Non-German nationals account for 47.4% (about €22.2 billion) of the overall €46.9 billion basic welfare expenditure, with German citizens accounting for the remaining 52.6%
Africans: Around 1 million individuals . Major sub-Saharan groups include immigrants from Nigeria, Eritrea, Ghana, and Cameroon
Germany is home to between 6.6 and 7.0 million Muslims , 1 to 2 million Arabs , and approximately 1 million people of African descent.
Are ”refugees”still welcome?
Volkswagen, the exemplar of German industrial might, is laying off over 100,000 workers and closing several iconic plants.
De-Naxification and the fall of the Berlin Wall/reunification broke Germany’s cultural back. They haven’t been the same since….
When you add in the EU, Greenies, and migration, the challenges for Germany to build a critical mass and get back on its feet are daunting, AT BEST. And IT WILL NEVER SUCCEED using EuroTrash rules and tools.
And Merkel killed any last vestiges of the military and police forces being virtuous, male-dominated rallying points for social order under a Divine Creator….
….though I will NEVER underestimate what a single pissed off Aus, er, Deutchlander with an outsized ego and even larger inferiority complex can do with Europe’s still-largest culture and best geopositioning.
China and Russia have what Germany can only dream of: a cohesive national identity and muscular central government that can marshal the resources and will to implement decisive national strategies.
Author Ralph Peters offered decades ago that Europe would return back to its cultural roots and warrior DNA and throw off (even violently) both internationalism and migration. Unfortunately, the time and the Caucasian birthrate are not on its side.
Western culture continues to decline and fall, one domino at a time. It will be painful watching Germany in its death throes, though I hope for the best! 🙁
So, the German government – a group who thinks it’s okay to subscribe to a heated car seat – was wowed by the Chinese – a communist toilet that routinely kills political dissidents, eats dogs, and tries to destroy white nations.
I’m not impressed by either of them. It does remind me to be grateful that I’m an American, so there’s that. Happy 250th, everybody!