{"id":119547,"date":"2025-05-21T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119547\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:31:18","slug":"german-economy-set-for-zero-growth-thanks-largely-to-trump-government-advisers-say-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119547\/","title":{"rendered":"German economy set for zero growth thanks largely to Trump, government advisers say \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Trump has suspended the worst of his tariff increases on EU exports until the start of July, \u201ca further escalation represents a significant risk for the German economy,\u201d the panel warned.<\/p>\n<p>The new government in Berlin, led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has announced plans to spend heavily on domestic infrastructure and defense, both of which should support what the panel called \u201ca slow recovery in private consumption,\u201d leading to anemic growth of 1 percent in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast is in line with the <a href=\"https:\/\/economy-finance.ec.europa.eu\/economic-forecast-and-surveys\/economic-forecasts\/spring-2025-economic-forecast-moderate-growth-amid-global-economic-uncertainty_en#gdp-growth-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Commission<\/a>\u2019s prognosis and, if  borne out, would mean Germany will have posted no growth for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though Trump has suspended the worst of his tariff increases on EU exports until the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[32,2000,299,1214,1824,1195,475,6084,46,479,1201,1219,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-119547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-growth","14":"tag-imports","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-policy","17":"tag-tariffs","18":"tag-trade","19":"tag-trade-war","20":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114545366462717073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}