Germany

European Solar Manufacturing Outlook Not So Sunny – HotAir

Those darn Chinese, they spoil everything. Particularly when you’re an industry that need subsidies to survive because you haven’t been able to stand alone yet, even after decades of government largesse greasing your skids. Just when you think you’ve finally got it made, climate cultists have taken over running the country, and are bankrupting everyone […]

EU’s Implacable Plod to NetZero Suddenly Tripping Over Itself – HotAir

European Green dreams and climate cult scheming sure are suddenly looking wobbly, and, in all fairness, the brought that Schlitz on themselves. From the Green Party Bond villains running the former German manufacturing juggernaut into the dustbin of deindustrialization, their insistence on imposing unreliable renewables and uncontrolled numbers of hostile immigrants on German citizens, to […]

German Farmers Sowing Some Discontent – HotAir

This has been festering for a while – ever since the Greens outsmarted themselves by trying to roll over COVID emergency funds into the the regular budget. But with the ruling from the German Supreme Court on November 15th that Greens could no longer constitutionally touch that €60M they’d already worked into that very same […]

Degrowth In Action – HotAir

One of these days I will do a deep dive into the “degrowth” movement, but that day is not today. I really want to wrap my head around it before I begin spouting off in my trademark manner. But I feel confident enough to say that Germany provides a great example of the basic principle: […]