{"id":447747,"date":"2025-09-24T10:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447747\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:57:13","slug":"clouds-darken-further-over-german-economy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447747\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds darken further over German economy \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is no time to lose: Our country has to feel now that things are getting better,\u201d Merz said.<\/p>\n

For businesses, though, this appears to be taking too long. Ifo\u2019s survey suggested that not only were companies less happy with their current business, but that expectations had also darkened noticeably.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe surprisingly sharp decline … dampens hopes for a rapid economic recovery,\u201d Deutsche Bank economist Robin Winkler said in a note to clients.<\/p>\n

The news follows on the heels of another survey from Tuesday: S&P Global\u2019s Purchasing Manager Index. This showed<\/a> Germany\u2019s private sector expanding at the fastest pace in more than a year \u2014\u00a0but cast doubt over the sustainability of this recovery, as new orders dropped in both services and manufacturing.<\/p>\n

A representative survey commissioned by POLITICO\u2019s sister publication, the German tabloid Bild (also owned by Axel Springer), showed<\/a> Wednesday that not only businesses are increasingly pessimistic about the country\u2019s economic prospects.<\/p>\n

Confidence in the Christian Democrats and Socialists\u2019 ability to return the German economy to growth continues to fall. While 43 percent believed this was the case in May, by mid-September that number had fallen to just 28 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is no time to lose: Our country has to feel now that things are getting better,\u201d Merz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1194,23433,2000,299,76456,1945,1824,1195,476,28649],"class_list":{"0":"post-447747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-economic-performance","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-fiscal-measures","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-growth","16":"tag-inflation","17":"tag-national-budgets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447747","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=447747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}