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My family is waiting for our EU (German) citizenship by descent applications to be processed. We started the process about a year ago specifically because of the prospect of a second Trump presidency.

I’m an experienced software engineer who already works remotely for a company with employees in Europe. Of course that puts us in a rare and fortunate category among those who want to leave.

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Germany is in major trouble, wait for the election tomorrow. The economy is extremely depressed. As someone who spends 30-40% of my time there it's really not good. The immigration is very concerning to many if not most Germans. Energy costs are 4-6x what they are here. Manufacturing is significantly down since COVID (chinese EVs anyone) and with high energy prices they are in deep trouble.

As someone else mentioned, citizens of any EU member country are entitled to live in any other EU (actually EEA) member state.

German passport grants access to the entire EU. Infinitely better than not having it.

Yet we're out protesting fascists, not immigrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932025_German_anti-...

> By the last week of January 2024, the protests had become the biggest in Germany since the protests against the Iraq War in 2003. Soon after, according to some researchers, they had become the biggest in the history of post-war Germany.

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