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Is Germany's investment really falling behind?
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang told reporters in London that Germany was falling behind, and that it simply needed to get to work. This week in Berlin, the government is pitching investors instead.
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Allianz Research finds German investment fell between 2019 and 2025, while the rest of the euro area rose 6.7 percent and the United States 20.2 percent over the same period.
- Rest of euro area6.7%
- United States20.2%
Foreign capital is shrinking too. From January to August this year, only 42.7 billion euros came in, a 45.8 percent drop.
€42.7bn
Companies in the Made for Germany initiative have pledged 800 billion euros by 2028. Whether those pledges become new factories is still open.
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