This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

Frild to welcome back, Joseph Sternberg,

member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

He writes

Political Economics column. He's based in London, but he's been on the road to Germany.

No hotter election on the planet right now, maybe all year. The German election will turn

on a number of major themes. We're going to concentrate on energy, green power, because Joseph, welcome back.

I missed you. However, I knew that you were out there absorbing the German contradictions.

One of those contradictions is energy. They are down manufacturing jobs so much that this

headline in the Financial Times greets us today. German manufacturing job losses deepen fears over industrial decline.

Voters prepare to go to polls this weekend as a political party seek remedies for economic

heartlands woes.

Remedies, Joseph.

Do they have a remedy for their ambitions to be net zero? Good evening to you.

Hey, John. I mean, the short answer is yes and no. So, I mean, there are two big issues going on in this election campaign. One of them is migration and illegal immigration. And maybe we can talk about that a little later. But I think that, you know,

the other big problem they have is the economy. And, you know, that news report you cited and

plenty of others are pointing out the economy. Germany is deindustrializing at a terrifying

pace right now.

I mean, if you kind of look at the collapse in industrial production by some 10%

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