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...With a combined gross domestic product of more than $6tn — bigger than India or Japan — they account for nearly one-fifth of all US foreign trade. But in America, you would hardly know it....
...Marking a big shift in German defence policy, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to revamp Germany’s armed forces and spend more than 2 per cent of nation’s gross domestic product on the military....
...He also vowed to spend more than the Nato target of 2 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product annually on defence, compared with 1.5 per cent now — a pledge that critics have demanded for years....
...He also vowed that Germany would finally meet its Nato commitment to spend 2 per cent of gross domestic product yearly on defence — up from the 1.5 per cent currently spent that has long frustrated allies...
...Scholz vowed to invest €100bn this year in a special fund to modernise Germany’s military and, in the coming years, to boost yearly defence spending above 2 per cent of gross domestic product....
...The Ifo Institute, a Munich-based think-tank, cut its forecast for German gross domestic product growth this year to between 2.2 per cent and 3.1 per cent, down from an earlier prediction of 3.7 per cent...
Although organised gangs play a key role, the distinction between smuggler and smuggled is frequently blurred
...With a gross tonnage of 16,000, the yacht features helipads, a large swimming pool and a gym....
...Econtribute predicted a loss in gross domestic product of between 0.5 and 3 per cent — less than the 4.5 per cent drop the country sustained in 2020 at the start of the pandemic....
Growing ranks include those from the far-right, communists and vaccine refuseniks
...The rule the Greens want to reform, which limits new borrowing to 0.35 per cent of gross domestic product, has actually been in abeyance for months....
...The company has previously said it splits profits with Pfizer 50-50 outside China, where it gets a 35-40 per cent share of gross profit in a deal with Fosun Pharma....
...Baerbock spoke to the FT’s Erika Solomon in a rare interview with foreign media....
...Tourism represents one-fifth of Greece’s gross domestic product....
...The FT’s Erika Solomon reports from the Romania-Serbia frontier. (FT) Elsewhere, Greece’s foreign minister Nikos Dendias accuses Turkey of using migrants as pawns to blackmail the EU....
...Those inflows bolster foreign currency reserves and service Lebanon’s ever-growing debt, which at almost 148 per cent of gross domestic product is one of the world’s largest....
...Some economists say 2017 may be the first year since the war that Syria’s gross domestic product will grow, though probably only by one per cent....
...Gross revenues rose 26 per cent year on year in the first quarter, for an annualised figure of $125bn....
...Amnesty said it was calling on Washington to comply with the Leahy Law that bars US military aid to groups alleged to have committed “gross human rights violations” and to agree to the global Arms Trade...
...Baghdad turned to the IMF for help late last year as it sought to narrow a budget deficit the fund forecasts could reach $17bn this year — equivalent to 12 per cent of Iraq’s gross domestic product....
...The Quays The identical twins from Pennsylvania make surreal stop-motion animations that have inspired Terry Gilliam and Christopher Nolan....
...Sousse is one of the main tourism sites in an industry that provides about 14 per cent of Tunisia’s gross domestic product and employs nearly 12 per cent of the working population....
...Already in talks over a sale of assets or the entire business, it has been forced to seek a further easing of the terms on its gross debt of $575m....
...Iraqi debt is expected to reach 70 per cent of gross domestic product this year, up from just 32 per cent two years ago. Additional reporting by Erika Solomon...
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