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“Germany is stuck in stagnation,” the economic minister, Robert Habeck, said late last month. That’s partly because German leaders made a big bet on globalization that has not yet paid off.
A DHL logistics center is now located on the ten years ago closed former Opel car factory site, as a symbol of Germany's economic structural change from industry to services in Bochum, Germany ...
Germany's economy contracted for the second consecutive year in 2024, continuing its struggle with a series of internal and external challenges.
Despite Germany being responsible for only 1.5 percent of man-made CO 2 emissions worldwide, advocates for climate action argued that Germany could serve as a role model for other nations.
Germany's cabinet approved a significant economic revival plan with record investments in defense. Amid a tight NATO context, ...
Though Germany’s economic data has been suboptimal for some time — the country has been in a prolonged period of stagnation that began in 2020 — the depth of the malaise didn’t hit home because ...
The other postwar miracle, far to Japan’s west, is the subject of a new book, Kaput: The End of the German Miracle.Its author, financial journalist and New Statesman columnist Wolfgang Münchau, claims ...
Germany’s net exports fell by half over the same period, to 1.2 million cars. Chinese factory capacity is estimated at 50 million vehicles a year, roughly half of global demand. Skimping on ...