How does sanctions on Russia affect Germany's middle class?Some people sigh: More and more people have become "low -key" poor people

[Global Times special reporter in Germany Zhaodong] More and more Germans are facing poverty. Germany's "Daily Mirror" recently reported that more and more middle class appeared at food relief stations from all over the country. One of the reasons for the embarrassment of the middle class in Germany was the reasons for sanctions against Russia.

The food relief organization "dining table" has nearly a thousand stations in Germany. The German Daily said that in the first half of this year, the number of customers increased by more than half, and it was currently providing food to more than 2 million people. And because there are too many newcomers, many sites have refused to accept new customers. There are also stations that each person can receive relief food once every two weeks. The person in charge of the Berlin region Waterm lamented that recently, their "unfamiliar people" (middle class) have also increased. She said that the typical poor people have been relatively rare, and more and more people have become "low -key" poor people.

A charity report released a report last December that Germany had 13.4 million poor people, accounting for 16.1%of the total population. A German television said that in Germany, as long as the per capita monthly income of the family is less than 60%of the medium number, it will be identified as the poor. According to the provisions of the official website of the "Table" organization, the poverty line of a single family is 1074 euros, and the poverty line of two adults and two children's families with 14-18-year-old children is 2,256 euros.

Marcos, a journalist in a media in Berlin, told the Global Times reporter that their family of four monthly income exceeded 4,500 euros, but felt that the quality of life still declined. Remove the basic living expenses, and almost almost left. Now I can't go to the country as in the past, and I rarely go to the restaurant for dinner. A 77 -year -old retired man named Yuta Herpic told the German "Focus" Weekly that she only bought meat and fish every half a month. Although there are other subsidies to receive 1,000 euros per month, there are other subsidies, not the poor, but at the end of the month, it is also empty.

At the same time, there are more marches for protesting energy crisis and high prices across Germany. The Berlin Daily stated that a latest poll shows that over 40 % of the respondents said that "be sure or very likely to participate in demonstrations against high energy prices."

In addition, more and more Germans have doubted the EU sanctions on Russia. The German "Sunday Photo" stated that after the start of the Russian and Ukraine conflict, 61%of the Germans supported to stop importing Russia's natural gas, but now this emotion has changed dramatically. The latest survey shows that nearly half of the Germans believe that sanctions have harm to Germany greater greater than Russia.

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