{"id":970,"date":"2026-09-25T12:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/podcast\/everything-bad-in-germany-on-the-failed-attempt-to-increase-willingness-to-reform-through-hardship\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:47:52","slug":"everything-bad-in-germany-on-the-failed-attempt-to-increase-willingness-to-reform-through-hardship","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/podcast\/everything-bad-in-germany-on-the-failed-attempt-to-increase-willingness-to-reform-through-hardship\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Bad in Germany? \u2013 On the Failed Attempt to Increase Willingness to Reform Through Hardship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly, it has not served its purpose of inspiring people for reforms \u2013 quite the opposite: the SPD and CDU have plummeted to historic lows despite their much-praised reform zeal. Worse still, the constant droning about Germany&#8217;s decline has only confirmed the authorities&#8217; narrative. The AfD is stronger than ever. Thomas Fricke, head of the Forum for a New Economy, discusses the fatal game with the pressure of hardship, why the Chancellor is now calling for positive thinking \u2013 and why seats in large football arenas should be socialized \u2013 with co-host Martin Kaelble in the third episode of New Economy Sounds.   <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-container brlbs-cmpnt-content-blocker brlbs-cmpnt-with-individual-styles\" data-borlabs-cookie-content-blocker-id=\"spotify\" data-borlabs-cookie-content=\"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\"><div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-preset-b brlbs-cmpnt-cb-spotify\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-thumbnail\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/spotify-placeholder-scaled.jpg')\"><\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-main\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-content\"> <p class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-description\">You are currently viewing placeholder content from <strong>Spotify<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that this will result in data being shared with third parties.<\/p> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-provider-toggle\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-show-provider-information role=\"button\">More Information<\/a> <br> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-buttons\"> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-btn\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-accept-service role=\"button\" style=\"display: inherit\">Accept the required service and unlock the content<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worse the situation appears, the more willing people will be to go along with the much-invoked painful reforms. This calculation by lobbies and mostly conservative economists is well-known \u2013 but this time it seems to be failing fatally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":861,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-970","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}