28-06-2025
Germany's Window of Opportunity Is Wide Open But Not for Long
With hundreds of billions of euros in state financing at hand, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has Germany poised for a historic leap. But his window of opportunity is narrow and could start closing within a few months.
A debt-fueled spending package — which Merz secured before taking power last month — has potential to add more than €400 billion ($470 billion) to annual output by 2030, according to the German government's panel of economic advisers. That could boost the average growth rate by 1.6% over that period — slightly more than the trend since reunification in 1990.
