Welcome to today's program. My name is Glenn Dyson. With me is Alexander Mercuris from

the excellent Duran. And the guest today is Maximilian Krah, a leader of German political party,

alternative for Germany or IFD, and also a member of the European Parliament.

Sorry, the correction will be alternative for

Deutschland.

So, but today we're going to discuss

Germany's changing role in the world, but also this rise of

IFD as Germany's position in the world appears to weaken, as the name would suggest, alternative

for Deutsche Land or AFD, is proposing an alternative, and it had a spectacular rise as well.

So there's really a lot to unpack here, but I thought we could start with the

German economy because, well, Germany has been an economic powerhouse for Europe, the locomotive,

if you will, driving Europe forward. And I think some social and political problems could often be

managed as long as the economy was thriving.

But what appears now happening is Germany's economies going through a challenging period.

And so I thought we could start off here, Mr. Kra.

How do you see the main challenges, if not also opportunities for German industry and the wider economy?

I mean the established politicians, the government and the Christian Democrats, they drive a

policy that will definitely lead to deindustrialization and recession.

There are two main drivers of that.

The first is the climate policy, and the second is their foreign policy approach.

The first thing is on climate climate because if you want to,

Germany's model of economy is to be the manufacturer of the Western world. So we don't have

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