> Since 2018, Germany has been the slowest-growing economy in the G7 – expanding by 0.4% a year on average. While the rest of the eurozone’s big four – France, Italy and Spain – have been showing signs of recovering from the slowdown caused by the Ukraine war-induced energy shock
France: biggest user of nuclear, warmer than Germany.
Italy/Spain: Definitely warmer than Germany.
I don't think they were ever hit as hard by the energy crisis as Germany was in the first place. And Spain has direct gas pipelines from North Africa.
VELCRO(r) has this song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY
Edit: as I watched the video again I finally caught on the fact that RollerBlades are a brand of inline-skates. In Belgium we called them inline-skates.
It's interesting to see how brands-as-identifiers change based on language and countries. My Walloon friend calls tape Scotch, but I don't.