Berlin is expressing doubt about the European Union’s ability to withstand the rise of nationalist parties and the pressure from the Trump administration. This unprecedented skepticism in Germany has raised fears of lasting weakening, or even the gradual marginalization, of Europe as it exists today.
Almost all German political parties are.
Which is the direct cause for the German infrastructure being so broken, because that’s what happens to a country that’s under continuous neoliberal rule for 4 decades or so.