German parliament approves climate protection plan
When I was a young man, Germany was the engine room of Europe. There was a feeling that its strong enough to carry all the rest of the continent through all of its foibles. They were seen as a center of fiscal virtue and productivity. This seems almost as ancient as its more unsavory past now. Germany has gone from a problem-solver to be a basket-of-problems. If only 20 years ago one would have said that Germans standard of life would decrease markedly he would have been laughed at. No more.
dw.com 
