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Germany's credit rating by credit rating agencies Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch Ratings stands at the highest possible rating AAA with a stable outlook in 2016. [140] Germany's "debt clock" (Schuldenuhr) reversed for the first time in 20 years in January 2018. It is now currently increasing at 10,424.00 per second (October 2020).
Health insurance in Germany is split in several parts. 88% of Germany's earning population is covered by statutory public health insurance funds, [45] regulated under by the Sozialgesetzbuch V (SGB V), which defines the general criteria of coverage, which are translated into benefit packages by the Federal Joint Committee. 11% opt for private ...
Health care reform measures in Germany are designated by the legislature for the organization of the health care system. The main aim of such reforms is to curb the increase of costs in statutory health insurance (for example, by stabilizing the contribution rate and, thus, non-wage labor costs by reducing benefits, increasing co-payments or by changing the remuneration of service providers). [1]
While it has largely avoided a technical recession, Germany’s economy contracted by 0.3% in 2023 and is set for a 0.2% decline this year. "Sick Man of Europe " Employees took 15 days of sick ...
“A lot has been left behind here over the past decades,” Alfred Kammer, IMF's Europe head, said on Germany's lagging economy. IMF sounds the alarm: ‘There can be no productive economy’ in ...
Germany’s economy shrank last year for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, official data showed Monday, increasing the risk of an economic contraction in the wider euro area.
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 leaning on ...
Here are the main parties contending, their poll standings, and the key policy issues: PARTIES. Germany has two, centrist big tent parties: Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the ...