The Eurozone’s largest economy Germany is not in great shape.  It’s grown by roughly zero so far this year and has a hole in its budget in need of fixing.  Much of the crisis stems from Germany’s previous reliance on cheap Russian oil and China as its main export market. So what does next year hold for the engine of Europe?  

Speaking to Joe this morning on the show was  Holgar Zschäpitz is editor at large with the famous German newspaper Die Welt who has also spent the last week or so in Ireland studying our economy.