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Often we find more important messages sidelined, seemingly of lesser importance than what may be expected when looking at headline and topic. The Handelsblatt, the German newspaper that provides essential news about economic developments, publishes a podcast, looking at economic challenges. The 09-05-2025 edition had been titled

Deutsche Wirtschaftspolitik: Neuer Optimismus trotz globaler Unsicherheiten

More or less at the beginning we hear that

die ersten

1:51 Schritte die die Regierung macht finde

1:53 ich richtig Wir müssen Paris und

1:55 Warschau adressieren Wir haben das hier

1:56 immer wieder Bert besprochen weil wir

1:58 gesagt haben das ist die Achse die

1:59 Europa stark macht

(I think the first steps taken by the government are right. We need to address Paris and Warsaw. We have discussed this repeatedly because we have said that this is the axis that makes Europe strong.)

Is it then the old axis – the axis that stood at the beginning (not only) of WW I and WW II? And the German prime minister aims on armament, wants that the Bundeswehr is the strongest army in Europe … Even if it is now only an economic war (and many signs are pointing into this direction) it is predominantly a war against the majority of the people.