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> Since 2018, Germany has been the slowest-growing economy in the G7 – expanding by 0.4% a year on average. While the rest of the eurozone’s big four – France,
by merb 2y ago
> Since 2018, Germany has been the slowest-growing economy in the G7 – expanding by 0.4% a year on average. While the rest of the eurozone’s big four – France, Italy and Spain – have been showing signs of recovering from the slowdown caused by the Ukraine war-induced energy shock
Hm
https://xkcd.com/1102/ https://xkcd.com/1102/
- blululu 2y agoFrance is the world’s seventh largest economy. Achieving growth is not trivial for an advanced and mature economy.
- merb 2y agoWell the article is shit. Of course Germany might have a slower economic growth. But let’s be real comparing it with countries behind Germany is useless, because at some point they will catch up. The second part is than some bullshit take that Germany does not invest enough in ai.
- formerly_proven 2y agoThose three have a combined GDP of about 6.3bn€, compared to germany at 4.2bn€. And at least France and arguably Italy are what you might wanna call a "full stack economy" as well. However, they also have 176 million people vs. 83 million. So those three have even lower productivity than germans, funny as that might sound.
- codemonke 2y agoFrance: biggest user of nuclear, warmer than Germany. Italy/Spain: Definitely warmer than Germany. I don't think they were ever hit as hard by the energy crisis as Germany was in the first place. And Spain has direct gas pipelines from North Africa.