Germany's imports from outside saucers of Germany and strong markets to sell its resources to in terms of goods and services

With Europe rapidly aging and the German population being the average age of 45 there economy

And everybody else's is not looking good

These demographic issue was should have been faced in the 1990s

The French president came out and literally told his people to start making babies

There is a strong link between liberalism, industrialisation, urbanisation and feminism which lead to low birth rates

After the French Revolution French birth rates collapsed and was one of many reasons Germany took over France

But at the same time due to the birth rate crisis happening much earlier in France's history it may have inoculated

Them to the issue at least partially