Cost of living: Dresden, Germany

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

For the final episode of our cost of living series, the Business Daily team are in Dresden, a manufacturing powerhouse in the east of Germany.

Leanna Byrne speaks to small business owners, students considering taking on extra paid work and a big manufacturing boss about how the rising cost of living is affecting them and their livelihoods.

Detlef Neuhaus, the chief executive of one of Germany's biggest renewables companies - Solarwatt - tells us how the war in Ukraine has changed the mindset of some people when it comes to the value of renewable energy and how their manufacturing costs have gone up in recent months.

Presenter: Leanna Byrne Production: Izzy Greenfield and Alex Bell Image: Dresden; Credit: Getty Images

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0:32.5	Business Daily is on the move.
0:36.1	Well, just about.
0:44.9	Ironically or not so ironically, this cost of living episode has been faced with strikes,
0:50.5	cancelled trains, and even on the plane plane we overheard someone giving out
0:54.3	because a tea and a snack cost 8 euro
0:56.7	or $8.71 by today's exchange rates.
1:00.7	German trains are known for running on time
1:02.8	but we arrived at an empty train station.
1:05.2	Trains cancelled, the airport workers on strike
1:07.7	so as you might be able to hear,
1:10.4	we're on the bus now.
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