In the Ukraine war is raging, but the biggest concern of the Germans is something else: inflation. Two out of three citizens expect prices to continue to rise, and the devaluation scares many. And rightly so. Nobody knows if and when potatoes, tomatoes and petrol will become affordable again.
People’s fears shouldn’t diminish when they are confronted with the picture that social organizations, some politicians and scientists are currently painting of the situation in the country: According to them, more and more people who have been left behind are living in precarious conditions. First the pandemic and now high inflation are throwing single parents, low earners, students and the unemployed into financial difficulties. Most of them, it is said, have lost confidence in politics. The latest evidence: in North Rhine-Westphalia it was mainly the poor who did not go to the polls last Sunday, which explains the shockingly low turnout. Germany, a disaster.