That’s because an unusual era is drawing to an end, one that was likened by Bert Ruerup, one of Germany’s top economists, to a “second economic miracle.” (The first was West Germany’s ...

FRANCE 24 visited the town to examine the realities of this new “economic miracle” as Germany heads into parliamentary elections. At the heart of Grünheide, a small town in Brandenburg ...

The victory of conservative candidate Friedrich Merz in Sunday’s German election has raised hopes that this 69-year-old former corporate lawyer will wave a magic wand and end years of economic ...

While the city played a big part in Germany’s post-war “economic miracle”, the rot set in with the decline of coal and heavy industry in the 1960s. Its population tumbled from 390,000 then ...

promised nothing less than a new economic miracle in an interview in March 2023. The statement was already foolish at the time. Today, no one doubts that Germany is in the midst of stagnation.

Its people seemed to be facing a bleak and uncertain future, but by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Germany had the third largest economy in the world, and still holds onto its top three ...

Amid the political and economic turmoil that swept Germany in the war's aftermath, Erhard managed to gain entrance to the commercial college at Nuernberg. In 1922 he took up further studies in ...

For many, the reason is clear: a massive Tesla factory in the area. FRANCE 24 visited the town to examine the realities of this new “economic miracle” as Germany heads into parliamentary elections. At ...