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Germany’s Bundesbank warns of economic stagnation as trade war looms

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The fortune of the eurozone’s largest economy is gloomy, especially with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House.

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Germany’s economy will contract this year and will hardly grow in 2025, according to new forecasts from Germany’s central bank – the Bundesbank.

National output is expected to shrink by 0.2% this year, down from the Budensbank’s prediction of 0.3% growth – delivered in June.

In 2025, output is set to increase by a meagre 0.2%, compared to the previously-forecasted 1.1%.

For 2026 and 2027, the Bundesbank forecasts growth of 0.8% and 0.9%.

The sick man of Europe

While other nations are suffering from high borrowing costs, Germany’s economy has been doing particularly badly.

Due to its former reliance on Russian energy, the country was hit disproportionately by energy price spikes following the invasion of Ukraine.

A number of factors are making it difficult for the country to get back on its feet – including an ageing population, creaking infrastructure, and productivity-hampering red tape.

A decline in the Chinese economy has also hit growth in the year to date, with the Asian market representing a key market for German exports.

Germany’s global exports fell more than expected in October, according to data also published on Friday by the federal statistics office.

Exports fell by 2.8% compared with the previous month.

Exports to China decreased by 3.8% on the month, exports to the US were down 14.2%, and exports to EU countries dropped by 0.7%.

Political complications

Political turmoil complicates the country’s economic situation, with snap elections called in February.

The so-called ‘traffic light’ coalition collapsed in Germany last month when Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his Finance Minister Christian Lindner – blaming a budgetary dispute.

The Budensbank also warned on Friday that politics further afield could come to bite Berlin.

If President-elect Donald Trump delivers on his promise to impose tariffs on US imports, Germany’s GDP forecast for 2027 could be 1.3%-1.4% below the baseline scenario.

Modelling looks at a scenario where the US imposes a 10% tariff on European goods and a 60% levy on Chinese exports.

The German economy is likely to “suffer considerably…from such a US policy shift,” said Friday’s report.

“Its strong reliance on exports makes it particularly vulnerable to the decline in foreign demand resulting from the global trade losses triggered by the restrictive trade policy. The heightened uncertainty further burdens the German economy.”

On inflation (HICP), the Bundesbank forecasts only a slight fall next year – from an annual average of 2.5 % to 2.4 %.

This is due to the temporarily steeper rise in food prices and only slowly abating price pressures affecting services. 

From 2026 onwards, the Bundesbank predicts the inflation rate will “gradually return” to 2%.

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