- Not the prospect of getting sick, but rather the effect it would have on their wallets.
- This includes the worry of being able to find affordable housing, something that has never appeared before in the study’s 36-year history, and jumped straight to the number-two biggest worry in the minds of Germans, affecting more than half of respondents.
- Although Germany did not experience any natural disasters this year on the same scale as the catastrophic flooding in the west of the country in July 2021, summer droughts and heatwaves, as well as disasters elsewhere in the world, coupled with perceived government inaction, ensured that climate breakdown was not far from people’s minds.
German angst reaches fever pitch amidst cost of living crisis 13.10.2022

