Hello, I'm Rob Young.

Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Germany is Europe's economic engine, but there's a warning all may not be well.

Does it have enough construction workers to build the schools and roads that it needs?

More than half of students who leave school go to university,

but there are nobody who will become an electrician or a plumber or a worker on site.

Some say immigrants could do the job instead, but has that been made politically impossible by the rise of the populist right?

This new political competition paralyzes their coalition and they are captured in infighting,

and that is certainly not looking good for the future of the Germany economy.

We'll ask if Germany could lose its place at the top of Europe's Economic League.

The German National anthem, a piece of music that will no longer be played during this year's World Cup.

The national team has, for the first time in eight decades, crashed out of the tournament in the first round. The football squads

fall from grace is a national humiliation, but it was expected by many fans.

It was really bad and they deserved to crash out. The preparation was really bad this time.

I hope they will learn the lesson to prepare themselves better next time.

The team didn't even fight, not even after the first goal, a bad match.

We definitely deserve to be out.

This has to be said clearly.

Certainly there have to be some changes.

The performance of the football team has led to much soul-searching in Germany,

and there's concern the performance of the national squad might be seen as a metaphor for Germany itself.

Thomas Matussek used to be Germany's ambassador to Britain.

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