LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Germany is not the sick man of Europe, but an unfit man in need of structural reforms to strengthen its competitiveness, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Monday.
“Some say Germany is the sick man of Europe, I don’t think so,” Lindner said at an event at the London School of Economics. “We are an unfit man.”
The economy, Europe’s biggest, was the weakest among its large euro zone peers last year, as high energy costs, feeble global orders and record-high interest rates took their toll.
That led some economist to call Germany “the sick man of…
