Manufacturing is not doing well but they still have services.
That is not a sustainable economic model for a place as large as Central Europe.
Europe already makes a substantial amount of revenue out of the tourism sector. But you can't live just off that.
They need to come up with some kind of relatively cheap energy source.
As for Germany, all they had to do was simply not close down their nuclear power plants, like I said here before.
France also delayed maintenance of their nuclear reactor fleet thinking it would be replaced by renewables and natural gas. But at least the reactors are still online. In Germany they even tore down the cooling towers just to make it harder to restart nuclear energy production.
The German nuclear reactors were closed down before their design life of 40 years. West German nuclear reactors got closed down at 30 years lifetime. East German nuclear reactors at Greifswald were closed down at 0 years lifetime. They didn't even bother turning on a finished East German nuclear reactor. Because it was of Soviet design, so supposedly inferior, yet similar reactors operate in Finland and the Kola peninsula in Russia even today.
With modern maintenance techniques, namely thermal annealing, those reactors could have been used for 60 years.
