Preview: Colleague Judy Dempsey in Berlin observes that Germany needs a new plan on trade and competitiveness. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 0:31.6 | This is John Batchel. |
| 0:36.4 | Colleague Judy Dempsey in Berlin for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, |
| 0:38.8 | commenting on the German economy, |
| 0:45.3 | on the German old days of making money by selling cars to China in the United States, |
| 0:48.9 | and the new days, China is making money selling cars to Germany. |
| 0:50.0 | What happened? |
| 0:53.0 | What needs to happen for Germany to upgrade? |
| 0:56.8 | Judy Dempsey on the trouble with Germany. |
| 0:58.4 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:02.0 | Germany certainly needs a new business plan. |
| 1:05.7 | The old models don't work anymore. |
| 1:08.5 | And it's all very well, the Social Democrats who are going to be the junior partners in Mercer's coalition. |
| 1:11.8 | They want subsidies for the ailing industries. |
| 1:14.5 | Instead of recognizing that these old days are over, |
| 1:18.2 | Germans are buying more Chinese cars than German cars. |
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