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  • People are migrating in any country, and sometimes they come back as is the case for Germany.

    Again, as I already said, quesionable methods: this study is based on interviews with emigrants. But how do you ask emigrants that have already emigrated and don’t plan to come back? It doesn’t matter anyways. The numbers speak for themselves. It doesn’t matter whether they want to return or not, they are gone now.

    Germany has managed to reverse its long-standing brain drain of the 2000s and early 2010s, and is now attracting more researchers than it is losing. “Germany is therefore on a favourable trajectory,” the report says.

    I did not know we are gaining scientific researchers in particular. This is good. However, this is just researchers. I’m talking about academics in general and emigration of German citizens. High-paying qualified workers. I shared my sources about that from the Statistisches Bundesamt.

  • 1.1% growth basically means Germany is sucking it up big time. 1.1 is nothing.

    Also, remind me in a year. It’s probably going to be corrected again like every time. Nobody wants a panic, so they regularly invent some percentage numbers that are magically corrected every now and then by multiple percentage points.

    Germany has major systematic problems. You can’t deny that. It will only get worse in the next 30 years. Quoting some 1.1% growth for next year is a fucking joke.

  • “The fraction of the people that were asked”. Who was asked? Also, how do you ask people that have already emigrated to another country and don’t plan to come back? Questionable methods. I’m only interested in the hard facts.

    You can turn and twist it as much as you want. Fact is, there is a netto exodus of academics for economic reasons. And this has been going on for a while and not just yesterday.

  • EU countries cannot freely print money; only the European Central Bank (ECB) has the authority to issue euro banknotes and manage monetary policy for the eurozone. Individual member states must adhere to strict fiscal rules and cannot create their own currency or print euros independently. Every country can sell bonds with a currency they don’t control.

    This is common knowledge.