Translation of "Muddling through" in German

But the risks of muddling through extend far beyond mediocre economic performance.

The human race is good at muddling through.

I feel like I’m muddling through everything – I’m so tired.

Had Obama’s attempt at muddling through worked, it would have avoided some big philosophical battles.

Under these circumstances, “ambitious muddling through” is both the most likely and the most promising scenario.

In today’s crisis, muddling through would be a recipe for a continuation of the crisis and secular stagnation of the type once described by Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes.

Fortunately, the EU itself also has a proud tradition of muddling through the challenges it faces, long relying on messy arrangements to accommodate its various members’ needs and demands.

Anti-austerity anger swept away the reform agenda of Mario Monti’s previous technocratic government, leaving Italy, its future uncertain, to continue muddling through.

As a result, the prime minister is barely muddling through – and only by agreeing with the major opposition parties to dissolve the lower house.

The record since 2010 suggests that “muddling through” will remain the EU’s dominant approach for the foreseeable future.

At the end of the day, “ambitious muddling through” will most likely lead to a higher degree of sui generis economic and fiscal integration (especially among euro-zone countries), including binding synchronization of national budgets, greater economic coordination, and eventually also some limited form of debt mutualization.

The “ambitious muddling through” scenario will be long, bumpy, and sometimes risky, and will probably end at a destination that looks very different from today’s expectations.

And, while muddling through is a characteristic response of complex political systems, it is deeply destructive.

Emerging markets and developing countries are taking the future into their own hands – at a time when rich countries are muddling through their own self-inflicted problems.