It’s a make-or-break moment for Germany’s economy. Trump’s tariffs won’t help

From edition.cnn.com

When German voters go to the polls Sunday, the country’s moribund economy — and promises to fix it — will be front of mind. But Donald Trump’s looming import tariffs will make that daunting task even harder for the new government. Failure would be costly. If the parties most likely to form a new governing coalition do not manage to kick-start economic growth, “they know who’s going to win the next elections, and this would be the far-right AfD,” said Carsten Brzeski, a senior economist at pan-European bank ING, echoing others’ fears about the Alternative for Germany party. The German economy, the ... (full story)