'Years of bad decisions and bad luck have destroyed Germany's economic model just when the rest of Europe needs its industrial might to help the region keep pace with China, cope with Russia's war in Ukraine and respond to an increasingly isolationist US. Instead, Germany faces its biggest crisis since reunification. 'Germany is not going to collapse overnight. That's what makes this scenario so absolutely heartbreakingly terrifying. It's a very slow, very drawn-out decline. Not of a company, not of a city, but of an entire country, and it's dragging Europe down with it,' says Amy Webb, founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute.