The great philosopher Gottfried Leibniz argued that each individual substance mirrored the entire world. He was proven wrong by modern science, but he may have been right about his native country’s economy: Germany’s current predicament, it seems, reflects Europe’s as a whole. This is not just because, as the EU’s largest and most industrialised nation, Germany is especially vulnerable to the bloc’s present litany of ailments, including  high energy prices ,  sweeping US tariffs , and  fierce