{"id":186499,"date":"2025-06-15T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186499\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:01:14","slug":"finally-the-german-economy-is-showing-signs-of-life-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186499\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, the German economy is showing signs of life \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That factor will likely be reversed over the next few quarters, bringing the growth rate back down in the near term. The institute then warned that if trade troubles with the U.S. escalate again, this risks offsetting positive impulses, and could throw Europe\u2019s largest economy back into recession.<\/p>\n<p>IfW\u2019s President Moritz Schularick was clear that trade policy risks remain \u201csubstantial\u201d and that the U.S.\u2019s \u201cerratic\u201d tariff policy continues to fuel uncertainty for German foreign trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to find good solutions for all sides, because we can see that all participants are suffering from the uncertainty from trade conflicts,\u201d Economy Minister Katharina Reiche said, hosting a delegation from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Berlin on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The OECD has also become more optimistic about Germany\u2019s near-term growth prospects, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/publications\/oecd-economic-surveys-germany-2025_39d62aed-en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projecting<\/a> gross domestic product growth of 0.4 percent this year and 1.2 percent in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>While the new OECD<strong> <\/strong>report on Germany welcomed recent fiscal rule reforms that will allow higher spending on rebuilding defense capacity, while addressing a large infrastructure backlog, the Paris-based think tank urged the government to not just throw money at its problems, but rather enact a slew of structural reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Its proposals include raising spending efficiency, reallocating spending and broadening the tax base.<\/p>\n<p>The OECD also called on Berlin to lighten the administrative burden and regulatory barriers to competition to revive business dynamism, innovation and productivity growth.<\/p>\n<p>It also suggested various measures to support a labor market in crisis due to population aging. These include strengthening incentives for women to reenter the workforce, and for low-paid and older workers. They also advocate for further reducing barriers to skilled migration, as well as improving education, training and adult learning policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That factor will likely be reversed over the next few quarters, bringing the growth rate back down in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6851,2000,299,76455,76456,1824,1195,31609,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-186499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bilateral-trade","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-europes-economic-recovery","12":"tag-fiscal-measures","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-growth","15":"tag-tarrifs","16":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114687750179473557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186499","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=186499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}