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25 Nov 21
German finance minister Olaf Scholz is set to become chancellor after agreeing a ‘traffic light coalition’ deal comprising three parties and setting out the new government’s priorities.
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1 Nov 21
German political parties’ continuing support for the country’s debt brake rule has contributed to rating agency Fitch maintaining its AAA judgement of Europe’s largest economy.
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15 Oct 21
Top economists have revised down Germany’s growth forecast for this year, due to manufacturing bottlenecks and the impact of Covid-19 on services.
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28 Sep 21
German finance minister Olaf Scholz is trying to form a government after his party narrowly won the German elections. PFF takes a look at what a Scholz premiership could mean for German fiscal policy.
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22 Jul 21
The German government has allocated an initial €200m to help with immediate assistance to regions affected by recent floods.
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24 Jun 21
Germany’s cabinet has approved €100bn of borrowing to pay for the government’s Covid-19 response in the country’s draft budget.
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20 May 21
Germany’s highest court has rejected latest attempt to block the European Central Bank from buying sovereign bonds, bringing an end to a six-year legal battle.
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7 Apr 21
The coronavirus pandemic saw Germany’s public sector deficit reach €189bn last year, the largest budgetary gap since its reunification in 1990.
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25 Mar 21
Germany will ignore its debt ceiling for the second year running after approving its 2021 federal budget.
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4 Feb 21
Covid-19 spending and lower revenues have weakened German states’ finances and forced them into debt, according to the latest government figures and analysis from ratings agency Fitch.
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20 Nov 20
Germany should not let its rising debt stop it from taking “vigorous policy action” to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19, the IMF has said after a visit to the country.
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17 Nov 20
Germany’s inaction in fighting fraud in online sales has been blasted as “incomprehensible” by the country’s state audit office president – given the amount of money spent over the internet.
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29 Sep 20
The economic and health crises caused by Covid-19 led Germany’s overall public debt to its highest ever level in the first half of 2020, the country’s official statistics bureau Destatis has...
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20 Aug 20
Universal basic income is to be trialled in Germany in an experiment to find out what effects it has on people’s lives.
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24 Mar 20
Germany has announced €156bn of new spending to fight the economic effects of the coronavirus.
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14 Jan 20
Germany recorded its largest ever budget surplus in 2019, the ministry of finance has announced.
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26 Nov 19
The German economy is set to grow slightly this quarter as business confidence improves, the Ifo Institute for Economic Research has said.
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14 Nov 19
Germany has narrowly avoided a technical recession after its economy grew by 0.1% in the last quarter.
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11 Nov 19
Germany’s coalition partners have reached an agreement on a pensions issue that threatened to derail the country’s government.
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8 Nov 19
German exports grew in September, data released today has shown, calming long-standing fears of Europe’s biggest economy entering a technical recession.
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7 Oct 19
The German government has announced a €54bn package to meet its climate change targets in a way that is both “economically sustainable and socially equitable”.
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11 Sep 19
Germany’s economy is “on the brink of recession”, researchers have warned.
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28 Aug 19
Brexit has been the main factor in weakening German exports this year, new data has reportedly shown.
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14 Aug 19
The German economy shrank in the second quarter of this year, fuelling fears of a European-wide recession as growth across the EU slows.
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12 Jul 19
Germany’s economic growth is being held back by a global slowdown and the country needs to rebalance its economy, according to the IMF.
25 Nov 21German finance minister Olaf Scholz is set to become chancellor after agreeing a ‘traffic light coalition’ deal comprising three parties and setting out the new government’s priorities.
15 Oct 21Top economists have revised down Germany’s growth forecast for this year, due to manufacturing bottlenecks and the impact of Covid-19 on services.
22 Jul 21The German government has allocated an initial €200m to help with immediate assistance to regions affected by recent floods.
7 Apr 21The coronavirus pandemic saw Germany’s public sector deficit reach €189bn last year, the largest budgetary gap since its reunification in 1990.
20 Nov 20Germany should not let its rising debt stop it from taking “vigorous policy action” to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19, the IMF has said after a visit to the country.
11 Nov 19Germany’s coalition partners have reached an agreement on a pensions issue that threatened to derail the country’s government.
