{"id":2086,"date":"2024-11-30T03:50:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/germany-is-an-unfit-man-economy-isnt-in-shape-finance-minister-says\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:50:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:50:26","slug":"germany-is-an-unfit-man-economy-isnt-in-shape-finance-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/germany-is-an-unfit-man-economy-isnt-in-shape-finance-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany is an unfit man, economy isn&#8217;t in shape, finance minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some say Germany is the sick man of Europe, I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Lindner said at an event at the London School of Economics. &#8220;We are an unfit man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The economy, Europe&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>That led some economist to call Germany &#8220;the sick man of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/germany-is-an-unfit-man-economy-isnt-shape-finance-minister-says-2024-02-12\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; 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. &#8220;Some say Germany is the sick man of Europe, I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Lindner said at an event at the London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}