In the early 2000s, the complaints were similar...We missed that underneath the surface many things were changing,” says Jens ...

The German economy shrank by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to preliminary data released by Germany’s ...

The German government announced on Wednesday an economic growth forecast of 0.3% for the year 2025, down from the 1.1% projected last October. The shrunk growth projections come amid the return of US ...

Germany on Wednesday lowered its 2025 growth forecast to 0.3%, down from 1.1%, as the country's stagnant economy continues to ...

The German economy is in deep crisis, with gross domestic product likely to contract 0.1% this year, the BDI industry ...

The budget has tripled in real terms to $35bn; in Europe, only Britain, France and Germany spend more (see chart). As a percentage of GDP, Poland is well in front. This month Poland assumed the ...

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China's GDP grew 5 percent year-on-year to 134.9 trillion yuan ($18.41 trillion) in 2024, breaking the 130-trillion-yuan mark for the first time, according to data released by the National Bureau ...

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected China's full-year GDP growth to come in at 4.9%, just shy of the official target of around 5% — which analysts had said was ambitious. Helen Qiao ...

confidence was effectively bolstered and the economy recovered remarkably,” the NBS said in its 2024 GDP data release on Friday. The annual figure, which slightly exceeded economists ...

Yet progress ebbed after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. Global economic integration faltered: as a share of GDP, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into developing economies are at about ...