If you're having difficulties differentiating between posters and quoted posts . . . time to put the bottle down and continue telling posters that you'll not respond to them . . . while responding to them - or someone else, who knows how you think.
Really? You'll need to check up on your economic structure knowledge before you say something similarly again. Yes, it is important, it is in the top five, but Germany certainly is not 'reliant' on it.
Yes, he did. Because . . . nothing better to find.
???? Decline? Are things going well? Not as good as they could be and not as bad as they could be - - - like the UK, which is in a death spiral.
Econimic and structural fundamentals are strong, the access to massive markets is a bonus - the UK? Nah, they're the world's pariah.