By Paul Ormerod Mired in strikes and ailing output, Germany is struggling; but its discontent is emblematic of a problem the whole of Western Europe must address, writes Paul Ormerod We English are notoriously bad at languages. But, like magpies, rather than bothering to make the effort, we steal words from others. That is why there is no word in our language for “Schadenfreude”, taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. And all but the most diehard of Remainers, eyes firmly closed to the evidence, must surely experience a frisson of this emotion when contemplating the current situation in…