The German union is up there with Canada as one I would not trust to be able to step through an open door. Hopefully they can balance the books and then in the medium term pursue funding for a team in the Rugby Europe Super Cup. That is the only hope in hell of retaining your best players once they are beyond 22/23 years of age and looking for careers. 

But I'd be lying if I said it was anything but extremely difficult for a union in Europe to steer a path towards improvement if you don't have a bunch of players eligible through ancestry playing in top professional leagues (like a Portugal or Spain).

Even a union that seems somewhat competent, like Poland, is really struggling to find the funds to create a team for the RESC. Sponsors are simply not interested in tournaments and teams that do not have access to higher levels of the sport. For example, they can't even give away the Scottish Super Series and it is of an okay standard. 

The only hope is that the winner of the RESC can be promoted to the Challenge Cup (possibly a one off this year) and that that proves attractive to sponsors of both tournaments. But I can't see it happening. 

Germany could gamble on popularising the sport via 7s, but I have yet to see any connection between success at 7s and success in XVs.