The BDI expects economic output in 2023 overall to shrink by 0.4 percent. Growth momentum from foreign trade losing steam. Exports are set to drop 0.5 percent this year following price adjustment. Pri ...
Russia's attack on Ukraine is a brazen violation of international law and must not be tolerated. Therefore, we support the EU Russia embargo. Unfortunately, company-based enforcement of sanctions has ...
“Alongside crisis management, Europe needs a strategic agenda focused on the EU’s competitiveness” demands Charlotte Andersdotter. Since 2021, she has headed the Brussels office of the Confederation o ...
Tough times ahead for Europe and the United States due to the war The global economy is set to grow three percent this year and a good 2.25 percent next year. The transatlantic economic region is appr ...
Michael Clauß has been Germany's Permanent Representative to the EU in Brussels since 2018. In his interview with BDI, he gives an insight into his work, explains what distinguishes the Permanent Repr ...
German industry heading for recession Industry is heading for a deep recession in the next few months that will radiate across the whole economy. Additionally the economic recovery is faltering. The i ...
Since February, the sanctions measures against the Russian Federation have developed dynamically. Large parts of the Russian economy are exposed to their effects. Even where this would be legally poss ...
Covid and war jeopardising global economic recovery The global economy will only grow by about three percent this year. At the start of the year we forecast four percent. The double shock of the Russi ...
On the occasion of the B7 Germany Summit BDI President Siegfried Russwurm says: "There is one mistake we must not make: promoting formations of blocs and disintegration of the global economy by dividi ...
The B7 remains committed to an open, free and fair trade agenda. This requires cooperation on the part of the G7 to continue to strengthen the multilateral trading system and to collaborate with the p ...
