In my blog of 16 October ‘Post-script from France’ I said ‘Like other Europeans [the President of France] hopes that the German economic engine will help power France and the rest of Europe, but the German economic engine has slowed down considerably.’
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in the London Telegraph paints a very discouraging account of Germany and its prospects. He says ‘France may look like the sick man of Europe, but Germany’s woes run deeper.’
For Evans-Pritchard’s account, see link below. John Menadue