Italy's manufacturing output used to be nearly on par with Germany until the 90s. Then they fell off dramatically. What happened?

>>212694415 (OP)
gremans forced italy to adopt the euro currency, controlled room frankfurt so they would be able to apply austerity and destroy competition

>>212695028
germans apply austerity even to themselves lol
this backwards shithole would achieve nothing without stealing from other countries and being awarded by americans with economic help for neutralizing europe. either the eu silences g*rmans or it's doomed.

China and globalisation

Also all major carmakers lost share to rising Japanese efficiency due to the Toyota Production System.
American carmakers lost too

>>212694415 (OP)
investment

European Union. The Euro.

Germans use the central bank to give their corporations massive amounts of money to buy out every industry in other countries and re-localize production to Germany.
When they can't do that, they create regulations to standarize production of all kinds of goods, and the standard is how they're already doing it in Germany, forcing factories in other countries to spend millions to adapt.
The politicians in the victim countries accept these regulations because in exchange they get an "aid package" with untold billions of euros to "train the workforce" once the unemployment number rise because of these policies.
A significant fraction of these funds are funneled through dozens of corruption schemes and pocketed by the political parties that allowed this to happen.

That's how 1/4th of all the car production in Europe ended up in the hands of Volkswagen. Rinse and repeat with countless other industries.

Germans and other northern European nations look like philanthropists helping out with their contributions while in reality fucking over everyone.
Southerners are depicted as "lazy" and not willing to work, when in reality their ability to work is being taken away from them by industrial re-localization and regulatory red tape preventing new businesses from arising.

>>212694415 (OP)
>Italy's manufacturing output used to be nearly on par with Germany until the 90s
Not in terms of quality

>>212694415 (OP)
It was unsustainable, all the southerners crying about the EU or the Euro somehow fail to understand their goverment finances and the private sector were building a house of cards in the 70s-00s, fueled by unsustainable debts, corruption and tax avoidance.

>>212694415 (OP)
>212694415
Italy is corrupted shithole but until 90s it was propped by low wages and demographics

Ze germans or algo

>>212695028
>>212696212
>>212699312
shieet so true mufugga
da german man be keeping a brother DOWN

>>212702646
It rly do be like it doe. You mfuggers kneecapped growth for a decade plus over made up numbers

>>212702646
Das rite muhfugga

APOLOGIZE

new regulations that cars can't be made out of toilet paper and engines have to last longer than twelve minutes

>>212700943
>It was unsustainable
Sometimes the treatment is worse than the illness, like politicians flooding our countries with brownoids to plug the declinging birth rate

>>212695028
>>212696212
>>212699312
Wow, Germany is even more based than I thought. Keep up the good work, ubermensch.