Overall, eastern Germany's economic performance, measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per hour worked, stands at 86% of the west German average.

In Abkhazia in 2008 and Crimea in 2014, such promises had merit, given the then-economic stagnation in Georgia and Ukraine and Russia’s rapid oil-fueled economic growth.

While the German economy is expected to contract this year, the institutes forecast that the euro zone as a whole will grow by 1.4%, accelerating to 1.6% in 2025 and 1.7% in 2026.

INGOLSTADT, Germany—Christian Scharpf, the mayor of this city of 140,000, Germany’s second richest, is looking for ways to save close to €100 million. Carmaker Audi, headquartered here near ...

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its ...

Harmonised German inflation declined to 2.4% in October 2024, down from a peak of 11.6% in October 2022, primarily due to falling energy prices. For 2024, inflation is projected to average 2.4% ...

Swedes practice nudism with erotic grace, the French with gay abandon; British nudists even manage to shed the stiff upper lip. Among West Germans, unzipping has become a solemn Teutonic cult whose ...

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Claus Vistesen, chief euro zone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, predicted unemployment claims could rise by 20,000 to 30,000 per month in the near term, pushing up Germany's unemployment ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German economic institutes have cut their forecast for this year to 0.1% growth from the 0.8% growth expected in September, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday, adding that the ...

The euro zone economy is characterized by serious economic troubles in all three of its major economies: Germany, France, and Italy. These are not countries at Europe’s periphery, such as Greece ...

German Economic Institutes Slash 2025 Growth Forecast as Tariffs Bite -- Update Published: April 10, 2025, 6:35 a.m. ET Share Resize ...