A win would give Friedrich Merz the daunting task of rebuilding a German economy that hasn’t grown since 2019—and establish him as Europe’s main counterpart to Donald Trump. Source link
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, during a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Donald Trump’s election as U.S. President could mark yet another major blow for the struggling German economy. Germany narrowly, and unexpectedly, skirted a technical recession in the third quarter, with preliminary data showing its gross domestic product grew by 0.2% after a 0.3% contraction
