Handelsblatt reports that Germany’s preliminary budget numbers look very good indeed; they’re looking at a budget surplus of a couple of billion euros, the first since reunification (not counting the UMTS mobile phone licence auction in 2000). Real GDP growth of 2.5 per cent is forecast; most of the extra cash came from the rise in VAT and fiscal drag.
It certainly seems a great position to be in at the beginning of a downturn.
As Deutschlandfunk put it a couple of days ago, it’s nice that the main economy in the Eurozone has returned to fulfilling the Maastricht criteria, hahah.
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I don’t think we want you here.
Alex, I disemvowelled the offensive comment.
Economically, any downturn is still off on the horizon here.
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