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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The German Chancellor admitted that support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia are not popular among “many citizens” in Germany. This is the natural repercussion of the anti-Russia sanctions imposed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, which has resulted in the German economy declining and average citizens struggling.
The popularity of the ruling coalition in Germany is falling due to support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, Scholz admitted in an interview with German broadcaster ARD.
“It is true that there are many citizens who do not agree with the fact that we support Ukraine, who also do not agree with the fact that we have imposed sanctions against Russia. But, in my opinion, there is no alternative option that consists of not doing this,” he said.
The German leader responded to a question about the drop in support for the ruling coalition, especially in eastern Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is leading in the run-up to elections in several states, according to polls.
Scholz said Germany was ready to seize opportunities for peaceful development, but “that would not mean the surrender of Ukraine.”
Germany is the second largest aid donor to Ukraine after the US. Scholz’s coalition, made up of the chancellor’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) as well as the Greens and Free Liberals, won the European Parliament elections with 31%, while the AfD came in second, with 15.9%.
A study by the credit company Creditreform reveals that the number of company bankruptcies in Germany has reached 11,000 since the beginning of 2024, a record number in almost a decade. The country is suffering from a recession caused, among other things, by high energy prices due to the interruption of gas supplies from Russia.
The head of economic studies at Creditreform, Patrick-Ludwig Hantzsch, explained that the reasons for the increase in company bankruptcies are the effects of the 2023 recession, the current crisis, and the weakness of the economic situation.
“All of this combined is breaking the necks of many companies,” added Hantzsch.
At the same time, the number of individual bankruptcies is also growing: in the first six months of 2024, 35,400 cases were registered, which is 6.7% more than in 2023.
According to Creditreform, the German economy is now suffering a recession caused, among other things, by high energy prices due to the interruption of gas supplies from Russia, which explains why “many citizens” in Germany are against the sanction regime and continued support for Ukraine.
Bloomberg also recently reported that more and more Germans are finding it difficult to make ends meet due to the turbulence affecting Europe’s largest economy.
“While government largesse and vast savings had long kept financial strife at bay, a reversal of state support, and the steady erosion of purchasing power by inflation and lofty interest rates are leaving a rising number of households overburdened,” reported the outlet.
According to Bloomberg, the root of the problem is COVID-19, which affected the finances of many workers, as well as the refusal to receive Russian energy.
“The former upended the finances of many workers, while the latter transformed Germany from Europe’s growth engine into its biggest laggard,” the article writes.
Creditreform data shows some 5.65 million Germans were classified as over-indebted in 2023, the first increase since 2019.
Germany, like Europe as a whole, faced a major energy crisis caused in many ways by sanctions against Russia due to its special military operation in Ukraine. Moscow repeatedly announced that the EU made a serious mistake in renouncing the acquisition of Russian hydrocarbons. As Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out, Europe hoped that if it did not receive Russian gas, Russia would collapse, but instead, it boomeranged.
For this reason, the German chancellor promised on June 24 relief for the country’s economy and measures to promote business investment. However, being able to impose new economic measures would require support from the leaders of Germany’s 16 states, who previously insisted on reducing some of the tax breaks and other measures, meaning the proposal will inevitably become highly politicised.
With Germans suffering as a direct result of Scholz’s anti-Moscow policies, it is little wonder that many oppose the sanctions and why the ruling coalition is losing popularity. His government has become one of the most unpopular in German history as he oversaw the country’s transformation from a European economic powerhouse to one that even Greece is outperforming, Europe’s poster child of economic depression.
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what, you mean there are still people in eurotardistan that are not sufficiently indoctrinated by our quality propaganda? germany has to change that!
better censor everything that has cyrillic letters in it. oh and ban the latin ones that are used in cyrillic too. better safe then sorry odalf scholzler! ask ursula how to do it!
fucking nazis.
no nazis. germany’s a democracy chosen by the people, who then ignore the people and run the show as an eu cabal. that’s western democracy, with a very international rules-based order odor to it.
heres the deal: they are nazis. they do exactly what the nazis did.
oh, and for that “democracy part”. i dont give a fuck. if the people dont revolt against their autocratic rulers, you know, something the very same people always cheer on when it happens in other countries where the politicians dont do what they promised, then those german people support the policies of those politicians.
so these people support nazism.
western democracy is a lie. in elections, there are only like-minded people as candidates. others cannot enter the discussions. in western democracy, if you disagree, you will be subject to sanctions and blackmail, like hungary. what kind of democracy is it that if you disagree, you are blackmailed? that’s not democracy.
“better censor everything that has cyrillic letters in it.”
pff, half-measures.
“oh and ban the latin ones that are used in cyrillic too.”
that’s it! or even cancel any letters, let them use pictograms (smiles) like cavemen.
trust in stupo the taco and dumb amerikan nazi saxon–they worship money–i poop in potato field to attract gay ameriukan husband
screw stupo the nazi taco and his girl friend named paco.
message in a bottle?
sweep sargeant schulz out with the rest of the eurotrash.
we prafar moron amerikuntized lgbt politicians
yea join the fuckin club , american people have never been on board with war and the retarded shit our govt does instead of working with countries the retards we have in want to dominate and run roughshod over other countries that don’t bend to their will ,but they have finally met their waterloo. this shit is coming to an end. russia is a no nonsense country and ain’t putting up with the us bullshit
what about the 100 bil special fund, your cattle had to shoulder and made his way to ukraine, you traitorous pos?
don’t worry about the fund. 2/3 are already spent on f-35 instead “typhoon” or at least “rafale”. scholz’s administration is serving well to the master.
kinder fuehrer, following on what their relatives started. us had no problems with germany, until us declared war on japan, following the pearl harbour false flag. germany then declared war on the us, as they were good friends with japan. us then joined the war. meanwhile allen dulles and his brother, who were aligned with the nanzies, took control of the newly formed cia and there first exercise was ‘operation paperclip’. providing safe passage to the nanzi and bolshevik elite.
with federal elections expected in fall 2025 and scholz’s social democrats now quickly approaching single digits in polls, just like his green and yellow coalition partners, an end to this nightmare is in sight.
they killed your ancestors by millions. there is one of the biggest us base in europe in your country and you think you will change something by putting a paper in a box….. seems legit.
many europeans do not at all. the whole thing has been more harmful to europe from the beginning. interest rates rise, vat rises, costs rise, the economy stagnates, inflation accelerates, products are unavailable, investments in europe shrink. who wants to do business with countries that confiscate property from civilians?
look at that democracy. yeah the people ware against it but we the elite know better and go further….