May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Destatis":
Business & Money: 15 May 12
Germany has avoided recession despite the resurgent eurozone debt crisis, official data showed on Tuesday, confirming the resilience of Europe's top economy to the surrounding turmoil.
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Business & Money: 30 Apr 12
Retail sales in Germany rose in March but not by enough to offset the declines seen in the preceding two months, official data showed on Monday.
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Business & Money: 24 Feb 12
Robust growth and record low unemployment enabled Germany to slash its public deficit last year, even though the economy shrank slightly in the last quarter, official data showed on Friday.
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Business & Money: 15 Feb 12
The eurozone debt crisis brought the German economy, Europe's biggest, to a standstill at the end of last year, data showed Wednesday - but the pause in growth will prove only temporary, analysts said.
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Business & Money: 14 Feb 12
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has predicted that Germany, Europe's top economy, will grow by 0.4 percent this year, the Economy Ministry in Berlin said on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 8 Feb 12
German exports topped €1 trillion for the first time in 2011, but fell at year-end as the eurozone debt crisis hit demand for goods made in Germany, official data showed on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 30 Jan 12
Germany, the world's number two exporter, expects healthy growth in foreign demand for its goods this year thanks to booming emerging markets and a nascent US recovery, according to a report on Monday.
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Business & Money: 25 Jan 12
The German economy, Europe's biggest, got off to a good start in the new year, with business confidence rising for the third month in a row, the Ifo economic institute said on Wednesday.
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National: 13 Jan 12
A large number of new immigrants pushed up Germany's population in 2011 for the first time in eight years, the national statistics office, Destasis, said on Friday.
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Business & Money: 3 Jan 12
The German labour market is continuing to hold up against the crisis and unemployment dropped to its lowest level in 20 years in the whole of last year, new data showed on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 2 Jan 12
The number of employed people in Germany hit a new record in 2011, said official statistics published on Monday, with more than half a million jobs created last year in Europe's top economy.
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Business & Money: 29 Dec 11
Life became 2.3 percent more expensive in Germany during 2011, as shown by inflation figures for the year released by the government on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 16 Dec 11
Though many Germans believe that prices have risen dramatically since the introduction of the euro a decade ago, statistical reality for most goods and service tells a different story.
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Business & Money: 9 Dec 11
Growth of the German economy will slow sharply next year as the crippling debt crisis puts the brakes on activity in Europe's economic powerhouse, the Bundesbank, said Friday.
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Business & Money: 15 Nov 11
Germany appeared to return to form as the eurozone's economic powerhouse in the third quarter, clocking up solid growth of 0.5 percent, official data showed on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 8 Nov 11
Record exports pushed Germany's trade surplus to a three-year high in September, data showed on Tuesday, as Europe's biggest economy remains resilient to the eurozone debt crisis – at least for now.
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Business & Money: 1 Sep 11
Germany announced on Thursday a drop in its public finance deficit to 0.6 percent during the first half of the year, the lowest level since early 2008.
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Business & Money: 16 Aug 11
The German economy grew by a meagre 0.1 percent in the second quarter of the year, while expansion in the first quarter was slower than originally reported, according to official data published on Tuesday.
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Society: 12 Aug 11
One in three children are now born out of wedlock in Germany – double the proportion seen two decades ago – according to government figures signalling a strong shift in social norms.
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Business & Money: 29 Jul 11
Retail sales in Germany, the biggest European economy, gained a surprise 6.3 percent in June, provisional figures released Friday showed.
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Business & Money: 8 Jul 11
Germany's export machine geared up in May, expanding by 4.3 percent to nearly offset a decline in April, data from the national statistics office showed on Friday.
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Business & Money: 13 May 11
Germany's economy is off to a strong start this year, growing a quarterly 1.5 percent in the first three months to a level last seen before the economic crisis in 2008, provisional data showed on Friday.
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Business & Money: 12 May 11
Food prices in Germany increased dramatically over the last year, with coffee and chips up to 40 percent more expensive this year than in 2010 according to a study by information service Preiszeiger.
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National: 9 May 11
Germany on Monday began its first official census since the country reunified in 1990, with privacy advocates complaining the questions are excessively intrusive.
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Business & Money: 9 May 11
A pick up in global trade saw Germany post record exports and imports in March, official data showed Monday, while its trade surplus climbed more than 11 percent on a yearly basis to €18.9 billion.
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Business & Money: 8 Apr 11
German exports picked up in February after a decline in January, official figures showed Friday, another sign of sustained economic activity in Europe's powerhouse.
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National: 31 Mar 11
The number of foreigners living in Germany rose for the first time in five years in 2010, growing by about one percent, new data from the National Statistics Office (Destatis) revealed Thursday.
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Business & Money: 29 Mar 11
German consumer sentiment has been hit by fears of inflation and an unsettled international environment, causing the first dip in an important confidence index in 10 months, the GfK institute said Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 24 Mar 11
Germany made no progress last year on its yawning gender wage gap, with women earning 23 percent less in gross pay than men – the same as 2009, government figures released Thursday show.
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Business & Money: 10 Mar 11
German exports in January rose 24.2 percent from a year earlier, pushing the country's trade surplus higher, while China overtook the United States as the leading importer of German goods, official figures showed Thursday.
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Business & Money: 15 Feb 11
Germany’s booming economy slowed in the fourth quarter of last year amid exceptionally harsh winter weather, expanding just 0.4 percent according to figures published by the national statistics office on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 9 Feb 11
Germany's trade surplus grew by 11.2 percent in 2010 as exports leapt by a record 18.5 percent, but Europe's biggest economy also bought more from neighbours as it bounced back from recession, data showed Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 3 Feb 11
German salaries rose by an average of 1.4 percent last year after dipping by 0.4 percent in 2009, figures released on Thursday by the national statistics office showed.
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Business & Money: 27 Jan 11
Beer sales continued their slow decline in Germany last year, dropping another 2.9 percent with the average person drinking a sip or two over 100 litres of the liquid gold.
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Business & Money: 26 Jan 11
Germany’s middle class has been steadily shrinking since the late 1990s, a leading economics think tank has found.
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Business & Money: 20 Jan 11
German shoppers face higher grocery bills with the price of food climbing faster than the general cost of living, government figures released Thursday revealed. Farmers are warning that the trend is likely to continue.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 11
The German economy, Europe's biggest, grew by a record 3.6 percent last year, provisional figures released on Wednesday by the national statistics office showed.
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Business & Money: 7 Jan 11
German imports hit a record high level in November, slashing the national trade surplus as a global recovery drove up prices for oil and other commodities, official data showed on Friday.
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Business & Money: 29 Dec 10
German inflation jumped higher in December, official figures showed on Wednesday, pushing the overall rate for 2010 up to 1.1 percent.
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Society: 29 Dec 10
Germany’s birthrate is rising faster than it has in a decade, with 20,000 more babies born between January and September than the same period last year, government figures show.
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Business & Money: 8 Nov 10
The German export machine shifted back in top gear in September, official data showed on Monday, boosting further the country's hefty trade surplus despite the strong euro.
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National: 13 Sep 10
Twenty years after German reunification, the former communist eastern half of the country is slowly closing the gap economically with the west but has some way to go, according to a new study.
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Business & Money: 8 Sep 10
Wages have risen less in Germany over the past 10 years than anywhere else in the European Union, the national statistics office said Wednesday, a trend irritating France and other neighbouring countries.
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Business & Money: 24 Aug 10
Domestic consumption and business investment have helped Germany post record growth and raised the chances that Europe's economic engine will keep chugging along this year, economists said on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 13 Aug 10
Germany posted its best quarterly growth since reunification in 1990 on Friday, with one economist saying it was "in a league of its own" as other leading industrial nations showed signs of slowing down.
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National: 12 Aug 10
There has been an alarming spike in psychological illnesses in Germany, but the country does not have enough therapists to handle the mounting problems, the BPtK national psychotherapists board warned on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 9 Aug 10
Germany's powerful export machine cranked into high gear in June, official data showed on Monday, likely driving growth across much of Europe as the continent's biggest economy thundered ahead.
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Business & Money: 30 Jul 10
German retail sales fell by 0.9 percent in June from the previous month, according to provisional figures published Friday by the National Statistics Office (Destatis), following a sharp rise the previous month.
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Business & Money: 9 Jul 10
The number of Germans missing work due to psychological problems reached a new record last year, according to a health insurance study released on Friday.
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Society: 29 Jun 10
New statistics showed this week that fewer immigrants are becoming German citizens, spurring opposition politicians to call for reforms to a system they say impedes naturalisation when the country's population is shrinking.
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National: 4 Jun 10
Following a recent report that Germans are getting fatter, the teachers' association (DL) called on Friday for stronger obesity prevention at schools, including regular weigh-ins and handing severe cases to child protection services.
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Business & Money: 1 Jun 10
Official data on Tuesday showed German unemployment falling sharply and retail sales picking up, as Europe's biggest economy pushed on despite the eurozone financial crisis.
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Society: 26 May 10
Poland, Romania and the United States were the largest sources of immigration to Germany last year, which surged by six percent according to official figures.
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Business & Money: 12 May 10
The German economy grew by a modest 0.2 percent in the first quarter, official figures showed Wednesday, giving hope as Europe battles a fiscal crisis.
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Business & Money: 10 May 10
Germany's trade surplus leapt higher in March, official data showed on Monday, with the euro's fall in value against other major currencies helping crucial exports rack up solid gains.
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Business & Money: 9 Apr 10
German exports surged in February after sharp drop in January, official data showed on Friday, boosted by stronger global trade and a weaker euro.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 10
Telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom this month unveiled a quota for female senior executives, but even with more women managers, Germany as a whole still trails far behind in pay equality between the sexes.
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Business & Money: 17 Mar 10
One half of new hires - mainly immigrants, women and young people - receive only temporary contracts from their German employers, sparking calls from trade unions to make changes to employment law.
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Society: 19 Jan 10
Although new figures show that Germans are smoking less, they are spending more on tobacco products, according to the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 8 Jan 10
Official numbers from the Germany’s Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) on Friday have confirmed that China has surpassed Germany as the world's leading exporter.
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Business & Money: 7 Jan 10
German retail sales fell by around 2.0 percent in 2009 from the previous year, an official estimation said Thursday as consumption fared better than Europe's biggest economy in general.
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Business & Money: 29 Dec 09
German inflation averaged 0.4 percent in 2009, its lowest level in 10 years, provisional figures released on Tuesday by the national statistics office showed.
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National: 16 Dec 09
Drivers in the German state of Lower Saxony have the highest risk of having a car accident involving a tree, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 30 Nov 09
Nearly every tenth German was on the dole in 2007, the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) reported on Monday. In some big cities like Berlin the number on welfare was almost double that figure.
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Business & Money: 13 Nov 09
Germany's economy continues to rebound from its worst post-war recession, as official data on Friday showed GDP growing for the second quarter in a row amid recovering exports and investment.
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Business & Money: 14 Oct 09
The number of women working part-time jobs in Germany has increased significantly in the last decade, a new study by the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) showed on Wednesday.
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National: 13 Oct 09
New statistics show that 70 percent of convicted criminals in Germany never see the inside of a jail. While appearing excessively lenient, a top criminologist told The Local decreasing crime rates prove the country's penal system is effective.
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 09
Just one week ahead of national elections, both Germany’s finance and economy ministers warned of hard times to come after the vote on a Sunday night political talk show.
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Society: 16 Sep 09
A new study by Men’s Health magazine shows that the key to a long-lasting marriage in Germany could simply lie in the town in which couples live.
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Business & Money: 14 Aug 09
While most branches of the German tourism industry are suffering post-crisis losses, close-to-home amusement parks are welcoming more guests than ever, daily Financial Times Deutschland reported on Friday.
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Business & Money: 13 Aug 09
The German economy grew unexpectedly for the first time since early 2008 in the second quarter of this year, the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) reported on Thursday.
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National: 4 Aug 09
Germany's Ministry of Family Affairs accused EU statisticians on Tuesday of using inaccurate birth rate data in a new study that placed it dead last among European countries.
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Society: 31 Jul 09
Despite falling consumption, those who are still enjoying Germany’s beer can know that it's been given top marks from the national consumer watchdog association.
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National: 30 Jul 09
Beer sales for the first six months of 2009 have dropped to their lowest level since the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) started keeping track of the sales in 1991, the Wiesbaden office reported Thursday.
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National: 23 Jul 09
Berlin had the highest concentration of immigrants in 2008, welcoming 13 new people for every 1,000 residents, a report from the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) said on Thursday.
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Society: 21 Jul 09
The recession has reinvigorated a German interest in camping, as more people decide to pitch a tent or park an RV instead of sleeping in a more expensive hotel, daily Leipziger Volkszeitung reported on Tuesday.
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National: 9 Jul 09
The numbers of traffic fatalities in Germany fell to its lowest rate in 55 years for the year 2008, new figures from the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) revealed this week.
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National: 8 Jul 09
The number of marriages that ended in divorce is up 3 percent from last year, according to the latest numbers released by the Federal Statistics Office on Wednesday. The state of Saarland had the highest rate of divorce.
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Business & Money: 26 Jun 09
German consumer prices rose by a meagre 0.1 percent in June compared with the same month in 2008, but a threat of deflation appeared to be easing, provisional official figures released on Friday showed.
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Business & Money: 9 Jun 09
German exports marked their biggest drop on record in April, officials said on Tuesday. But analysts expect the historic slump in Europe's biggest economy to ease in coming months.
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Business & Money: 27 May 09
German inflation dropped to zero in May compared with the same month in 2008, the lowest figure in 22 years, preliminary figures showed Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 11 May 09
German steel and iron industry production reached a record low point in April, the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) reported on Monday.
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Business & Money: 8 May 09
Markets welcomed unexpectedly good German industrial output data on Friday after Europe's biggest economy posted a slight rise in trade, signs it was not finished with recession but was starting to see some hope.
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Business & Money: 8 Apr 09
Germany posted a 23.1 percent drop in exports in February from the same month in 2008, provisional data released Wednesday by the National Statistical Office showed.
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Business & Money: 7 Apr 09
The world economic crisis has officially reached the German steel industry. New statistics published on Tuesday revealed that only half as much steel was produced in March as in the same month last year.
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National: 25 Feb 09
The German economy, Europe's biggest, shrank by 2.1 percent in late 2008, its largest contraction since the country was reunited in 1990, official data confirmed on Wednesday.
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Society: 24 Feb 09
Tuesday may be the last day for Karneval goers to drink themselves into frothy oblivion before Lent, but new figures show Germans are only moderate consumers of beer – averaging as little as one small bottle per day.
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Society: 23 Feb 09
German women earn almost one-quarter less than men, placing the country well above average in European Union gender inequality statistics, daily Die Welt reported on Monday.
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Business & Money: 13 Feb 09
The German economy shrivelled 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, the worst decline since reunification and significantly more than expected, the Federal Statistics Office reported on Friday.
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Business & Money: 3 Feb 09
German retail sales fell unexpectedly in December, seasonally corrected data released Tuesday by the national statistics office showed as the biggest European economy remained gripped by recession.
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National: 22 Jan 09
Germany’s Federal Environmental Agency is encouraging consumers in the bratwurst-loving country to cut back on meat products to benefit the climate, daily Berliner Zeitung reported on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 15 Jan 09
German inflation set a 14-year record last year of 2.6 percent, final figures released on Thursday by the national statistics office showed, a result of higher costs for petrol and food.
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Business & Money: 14 Jan 09
The German economy slowed sharply last year as exports were hit by the global slowdown and consumption failed to gain ground, the Federal Statistics office said on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 9 Jan 09
German retail sales probably contracted last year on a so-called real, or adjusted basis, the national statistics office said on Friday, after releasing provisional data for the month of November.
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Politics: 8 Jan 09
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Thursday for new rules to govern world finance in the wake of the global economic collapse.
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Business & Money: 8 Jan 09
German exports plunged in November at their sharpest rate since 1990, data showed Thursday, as the global recession pulled the plug on demand for goods from the world's biggest exporter.
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Business & Money: 5 Jan 09
Telecommunications prices in households dropped by 3.3 percent in 2008, according to the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) on Monday.
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Business & Money: 2 Jan 09
A leading economic advisor for the German government, Wolfgang Wiegard, on Friday said 700,000 people could expect to lose their jobs in Germany in 2009.
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Business & Money: 30 Dec 08
German inflation slowed in December but Europe's biggest economy still registered its highest annual inflation rate in 14 years in 2008, official figures released on Tuesday showed.
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Society: 10 Dec 08
The amount of parental leave benefits doled out for moms and dads in the formerly communist eastern German states is significantly lower than the national average, the Federal Statistics Office reported on Wednesday.
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