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...Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected German business confidence to keep rising to 102.1, but Ifo president Clemens Fuest said: “Supply bottlenecks and concerns over newly rising infection numbers...
...Clemens Fuest, head of the Ifo Institute, the Munich-based think-tank, called the comment piece “extremely one-sided and misleading”. “The message is: spend more money and save the world,” he said....
...But Ifo president Clemens Fuest said: “Supply bottlenecks and concerns over newly rising infection numbers are weighing on the German economy.”...
...But von Eben-Worlée, who heads a 170-year-old raw materials supplier, believes Germany today has a real chance to shift gears after its two main parties were locked for eight years into chancellor Angela...
...German chancellor Angela Merkel could not find time in her diary to meet Kurz on his two-day visit to Berlin — though both sides insisted the lack of a meeting was simply a matter of bad timing....
...“There are two risks — one is the Delta resurgence and the other is the supply constraints,” says Clemens Fuest, president of the Ifo Institute, an economic research group in Munich....
...But in November of that year a financial attaché at the embassy emailed the ambassador, Clemens von Goetze, warning him not to support Wirecard “at the present time”....
...Clemens Fuest, head of the Ifo economic think-tank, welcomed the package, saying it “combines incentives to revive consumption in the short-term, with impulses for public and private investments as well...
...“The gradual easing of the lockdown offers a glimmer of hope,” said Clemens Fuest, president of Ifo. “Nevertheless, many companies are still pessimistic about their business.”...
...In an interview, Mr Altmaier, a close ally of Angela Merkel, said he would hold talks with Mr Le Maire in Berlin on Tuesday on how to ensure European companies were better able to compete with international...
...And a group of prominent German economists called on Angela Merkel’s government to abandon its commitment to a balanced budget in the face of the coronavirus epidemic and consider an extensive package of...
...Angela Merkel expressed similar fears last week, saying she feared some regions were relaxing the shutdown measures too quickly....
...Meanwhile, Clemens Tönnies, the so-called “beef baron” and owner of Europe’s largest meat manufacturer, made headlines as Covid-19 infected 1,300 of his staff....
...“It is inevitable that some borrowers will default,” says Clemens Fuest, president of the Ifo economics institute in Germany....
...Clemens Fuest at the Ifo institute says a chaotic Brexit would throw Germany into recession (Der Spiegel)....
...“It is a fatal signal that a pillaging, rampaging mob determines policy while those who demonstrate peacefully, or not at all, are ignored,” said Clemens Fuest....
...The coalition deal agreed between Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats on Friday after five days of intensive talks was a detailed catalogue of incremental measures designed, they said,...
...Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU has in recent days appeared more willing to support reform....
...“The mood in German boardrooms at the start of this year is excellent,” says Clemens Fuest, head of Ifo, the economic think-tank....
...“It was a unique opportunity,” says Clemens Fuest, president of the Ifo think-tank. “Instead, they decided to increase spending.”...
...Since the failure of Angela Merkel’s attempt to form a “Jamaica” coalition with the Greens and Free Democrats last month, the country has been in political limbo....
...If Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, were like Mr Trump she would probably tell him that the euro was “our currency and his problem”....
...bloc’s emergence from years of weak growth and high unemployment is a boon to President Emmanuel Macron of France, who won election this month pledging to improve his country’s struggling economy, and for Angela...
...Clemens Fuest, President, ifo Institute and University of Munich This would be a signal of continuity....
...Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government, which has vowed to maintain a balanced budget as a cornerstone of its economic policy, hailed the larger surplus....
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