I think that demonstrates the typical issue of not having leadership change for a long period of time. Under Merkel - who grew up in socialist East Germany - the Germany got a lot of structural characteristics of a socialist economy, in particular being dominated by large manufacturers who have been getting preferential treatment from the government, and losing the ability to adjust and maneuver. She also didn't have that gut check of dealing with Russia and has put all the Germany's eggs into one basket which has been held by Putin. Thus what happens right now is a light form of shock-therapy of getting adjusted back to the new reality of the current global economy. Their leadership still seems to hope that some form of the old trade relationship with Russia will survive. The faster they ditch that hope the faster the shock-therapy will get completed. Germany needs to bite the bullet and massively build the LNG terminals (one would expect that North Stream 2 landing point has all the connection into the infrastructure to take it in). The second best thing Germany can do for its economy is to supply Ukraine with a lot of weapons. Germany naturally has significant hesitancy to meddle into Ukraine war, yet the faster, stronger and earlier Russia stopped - the better for everybody, including Germany. Russia getting onto the Poland border is much worse than Russia forcefully stopped where for example it is now. Germany for now has been very slow at supplying weapons to Ukraine and thus prolonging the chances of Russia moving closer to Europe.