The German economy shrank for the second straight year in 2024 as worried consumers held back on spending and Chinese ...

The German economy has shrunk for two years in a row, will stagnate in 2025, and hardly grow thereafter. Faced with ...

BERLIN — Germany's economy shrank for the second straight year in 2024 as worried consumers held back on spending and Chinese competition ate into the country's traditional exports of cars and ...

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The economy is now only 0.3% bigger than it was in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic. German business has been battered by external shocks and homegrown problems, unleashing an angst ...