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In Fortune's first-ever ranking of Europe's top 500 corporations by annual revenue, Germany stands out with the highest representation, boasting a total of 80 companies in the rankings.
Last year, Germany was the only major economy to shrink by 0.3% despite slowing inflation. It has stagnated into the current year, staggering “between hope and despair,” ING Bank said.
The German economic crisis is a significant downturn of Germany's economy that marked a dramatic reversal of its previous "labour market miracle" period of 2005–2019. The country, which had been considered to be Europe's economic powerhouse in prior decades, became the worst-performing major economy globally in 2023 with a 0.3% contraction, followed by minimal growth in 2024 leading to ...
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On 7 December 2022, 25 members of a suspected far-right terrorist group were arrested for allegedly planning a coup d'état in Germany. [4] The group, called Patriotic Union [] (German: Patriotische Union), which was led by a Council (German: Rat), [5] was a part of the German far-right extremist Reichsbürger movement. [1]
2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak (May–June) Thousands of protesters hold demonstrations in Belgrade, Serbia against the arrest of Ratko Mladić (26 May). 2011 Portuguese anti-austerity movement (12 March) Nationwide protests across Spain (May–) Anti-cuts protest in London (26 March) Refugees of the 2011 Libyan civil war (2011–2013)
A backlash had been building in Germany ever since it took in more than a million people mostly fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria during the 2015/2016 migrant crisis, migration experts say.
CDU secret party donations scandal ("Parteispendenaffäre"): "Flick affair" (1982); General Günter Kießling's supposed closet homosexuality (1984); U-Boat plans scandal, planned submarine sales to Apartheid South Africa (1986–1990)