Robust economic growth in Germany is set to continue, the Bundesbank’s experts write in the current Monthly Report, as indicated by the favourable order situation in industry and construction as well as the positive sentiment in the German economy and among households.

The Bundesbank celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Representative Office in the Japanese capital on 22 May. At a reception with 150 invited guests, Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret and the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, acknowledged the value of the close and personal cooperation.

In the view of Andreas Dombret, Executive Board member of the Bundesbank, the robust governance of the banking sector can help restore market forces and foster confidence. However, he pointed out that supervisors' and regulators' area of competence also has boundaries. "The red line has to be drawn where entrepreneurial responsibility and market forces should prevail," Mr Dombret said in an address to the Savings Bank Conference in Potsdam.