German voters demand change as Europe’s biggest economy stalls
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) – Lars Baumguertel wants Germany’s politicians to get out their cheque books. The 58-year-old executive runs one of the last surviving manufacturers in Gelsenkirchen, a former coal town in the industrialized Ruhr Valley. But his company, like many in the Mittelstand – the tissue of small- and medium-sized manufacturers that powers Germany’s…