“We need the British...because they are part of the community of pragmatic, reasonable countries and because they are politically, culturally and economically similar to us Germans.”
Germany is still on course for another record year of exports in 2015 despite a drop of 5.2 percent in August compared with the previous month, the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) reported on Thursday.
Germany has stopped selling arms to Russia due to the current “political situation”, according to reports on Thursday. The sale of military equipment to Russia by German firms has been criticized by the country’s Nato allies.
Germany’s love of beer shows no sign of abating with the country’s breweries celebrating booming sales over the summer months, figures released on Wednesday showed.
Germany emerged top and Singapore second in a new World Bank logistics survey that measures how efficiently countries trade their goods around the world.
One of President Barack Obama's senior economic advisors Paul Volcker said the US could take a leaf out of Germany's book when it comes to creating an export-based economy.
Germany's trade surplus soared in July as its export engine revved up, official data showed on Tuesday, but a drop in industrial output signalled that economic recovery is fragile.
Germany's worst recession since the Second World War has lost much of its intensity according to reports published on Monday by the Finance Ministry and central bank.
With industrial orders in a freefall, Germany's key machinery engineering sector could shed 25,000 jobs this year, the VDMA trade association warned on Tuesday.
