At the end of 2022, Germany’s primary outward foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks were higher than at the end of 2021, by just under 3% to €1,634 billion net. Inward FDI was also up on its end-2021 level, rising by 6.5% to €956 billion. Although Germany’s FDI assets indicated significantly weaker investment activity than in the year prior, it recorded an overall increase of €75 billion in 2023 (2022: €170 billion). The increase of German liabilities was €15 billion, which is one-quarter of the previous year’s figure.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel says the German economy is facing major longer-term challenges. The first two challenges ... are the need to decarbonise the economy and the ageing of our society, he argued at a change of office ceremony at the Bundesbank’s Regional Office in Saxony and Thuringia. He hailed last week’s rates cut by the ECB Governing Council as the right decision but advised caution, noting that future economic and price developments were still fraught with uncertainty.

Anzahl der Zweigstellen von Banken in den meisten EU-Mitgliedstaaten weiter gesunken (um durchschnittlich 3,09 %). Zahl der Bankbeschäftigten im Schnitt um 0,81 % zurückgegangen. Konzentrationsgrad im Bankensektor weiterhin von Land zu Land sehr unterschiedlich.
 

The Bundesbank sees the German economy slowly regaining its footing after a roughly two-year period of weakness. Not only will private consumption gradually pick up again, but export business will also improve again from the second half of the year. “The German economy is extricating itself from the period of economic weakness,” Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said on publication of the current Forecast for Germany. According to the forecast, real gross domestic product (GDP) will rise by a calendar-adjusted 0.3% this year.

The German economy is slowly regaining its footing after a roughly two-year period of weakness, according to the Bundesbank’s current Forecast for Germany.

Die deutsche Wirtschaft fasst nach rund zweijähriger Schwächephase nach Einschätzung der Bundesbank langsam wieder Tritt. Nicht nur der private Konsum wird nach und nach wieder anziehen, ab der zweiten Jahreshälfte werden auch die Exportgeschäfte wieder besser laufen. „Die deutsche Wirtschaft befreit sich aus der konjunkturellen Schwächephase“, sagte Bundesbankpräsident Joachim Nagel anlässlich der aktuellen Deutschland-Prognose. Das kalenderbereinigte reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) legt demnach im laufenden Jahr um 0,3 Prozent zu.