Germany’s Altmaier: Economic forecasts to remain solid as long as coronavirus contained

Ahead of the release of the German autumn economic forecasts, the Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said that the government is unlikely to make major revisions to the estimates.

The government expects the GDP to contract 5.8% in 2020 before rebounding by 4.4% next year.

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“That of course assumes we will bring the pandemic under control, that we break the rapid increase in infections, and we succeed in returning to the situation we had from May to August.”

“If we don’t get the numbers down, then we are going to face bigger problems.”