https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German economic growth plummeted in 2019, official data is expected to show Wednesday, stoking renewed debate about how to use fiscal surpluses to boost gross domestic product. https://www.thelocal.de/20200115/curtain-falls-on-germanys-golden-decade-of-growth Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:03:14 +0100 curtain-falls-on-germanys-golden-decade-of-growth Germany's federal statistics authority on Friday revised down its reckoning of the country's government budget surplus in 2017, but the overshoot remained at record levels. https://www.thelocal.de/20180223/germany-recorded-record-budget-surplus-of-366-billion-last-year Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:32:57 +0100 germany-recorded-record-budget-surplus-of-366-billion-last-year The German state notched up a record budget surplus between January and June, official figures showed Friday, as Europe's largest economy continued to grow strongly. https://www.thelocal.de/20170825/germany-records-record-budget-surplus-in-first-half-of-2017 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:26:14 +0200 germany-records-record-budget-surplus-in-first-half-of-2017 China and Germany are not manipulating the value of their currencies to gain an unfair trade advantage, but both should do more to reduce their large trade surpluses with the United States, the Treasury Department said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170415/germany-and-china-must-do-more-to-cut-trade-surpluses-us Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:41:26 +0200 germany-and-china-must-do-more-to-cut-trade-surpluses-us Last year the German state hauled in its healthiest budget surplus since reunification over quarter of a century ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20170223/germany-records-record-budget-surplus-thanks-to-healthy-trade Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:53:43 +0100 germany-records-record-budget-surplus-thanks-to-healthy-trade The Finance Ministry said the government achieved a federal budget surplus of €6.2 billion last year - and politicians are already fighting over what to do with it. https://www.thelocal.de/20170113/how-will-germany-spend-its-6-billion-surplus Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:05:00 +0100 how-will-germany-spend-its-6-billion-surplus Germany's exports and imports rose to new monthly records in July, official data showed on Tuesday, underlining the robustness of Europe's top economy in the current stormy global economic seas. https://www.thelocal.de/20150908/german-trade-booming-as-surplus-record-is-smashed Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:43:07 +0200 german-trade-booming-as-surplus-record-is-smashed The German economy, Europe's biggest, stands rock solid in the current stormy global economic seas, with growth picking up, confidence on the rise and its public finances firmly in the black, data showed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150825/germany-records-huge-budget-surplus Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:56:05 +0200 germany-records-huge-budget-surplus Germany reported the second-largest government surpluses as a percentage of GDP in the EU last year and was one of only four countries to stay in the black, according to a report published on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150421/germany-had-second-highest-surplus-in-eu Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:58:05 +0200 germany-had-second-highest-surplus-in-eu Germany's public finances are back in the black for the first time since 2007, as the federal, state and social security budgets all reported surpluses in the billions for 2014. https://www.thelocal.de/20150407/strong-economy-puts-germany-in-surplus Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:40:10 +0200 strong-economy-puts-germany-in-surplus Germany's public finances were back in the black in 2014, as growth in Europe's biggest economy shifted up a gear at the end of the year, official data showed Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150224/strong-economy-makes-for-18-billion-surplus Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:04:49 +0100 strong-economy-makes-for-18-billion-surplus