In July, unemployment in Germany rose once again: according to the German Federal Employment Agency, 3,007,000 people were registered. That is 28,000 more than a year ago. Unemployment in Germany is now at its highest level in 12 years. Without tax-funded positions in the public sector, the figures would be significantly higher.
The reasons for the high unemployment lie in elevated energy prices as a result of the Iran war, weak economic performance, a shrinking workforce due to the aging of German society, and structural weaknesses in the German economy.
Iran War Halves Economic Growth—Misguided Energy Transition
According to the Handelsblatt newspaper, Germany’s leading economic institutes now expect only 0.6% economic growth in 2026. This represents a halving of previous forecasts. Only 1% growth is anticipated for 2027. They estimate that Germany will lose €50 billion in value added due to the Iran war.
However, the surge in energy costs caused by the Iran war is merely the tip of the iceberg of years of misguided energy policy: the shutdown of German nuclear power plants in the name of the green “Energiewende” and the anti-Russia sanctions have made energy prohibitively expensive in Germany. The bill is not being paid by Germany’s globalist elites, but by ordinary citizens—the German people.
“For years we have been sleepwalking from one economic shock to the next.”
While Germany still statistically ranks among wealthy nations, its population is objectively becoming increasingly impoverished: when wages are adjusted for inflation, they remain below 2019 levels.
The German Economic Institute (Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft) warns: “For years we have been sleepwalking from one economic shock to the next.”
Everyday Life for German Pensioners: Hunger, Begging, Collecting Bottles
Germany’s “urban landscape” (Stadtbild in German) is increasingly shaped not only by criminal immigrants but also by impoverished retirees: due to inflation, many Germans who worked their entire lives no longer receive pensions sufficient to live on. They are now forced to collect bottles in their old age.
The German Compact magazine estimates that after 2030, half of all people over 65 will live in miserable conditions. The social question is becoming ever more urgent in Germany—yet the German elites, interested only in mass immigration, suppressing the opposition, and warmongering against enemies of the Epstein regime, care little.
