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Customers buy fresh fruits and vegetables in a supermarket in Munich, Germany, on March 8, 2025.
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German inflation reached a 2.3% lower than expected in March, the preliminary data of the country’s statistical office that destroyed on Monday.
Compared to February 2.6% print, which was reviewed lower from a preliminary reading, and a survey of reuters economists who expected inflation to reach 2.4% of the printing is harmonized throughout the euro area for comparability.
Monthly, harmonized inflation increased 0.4%. The central inflation, which excludes food and energy costs, reached 2.5%, below the reading of 2.7% in February.
Meanwhile, the inflation of the services, which for a long time had been sticky, was also reduced to 3.4% in March, from 3.8% in the previous month.
The data arrives at a critical moment for the German economy, since the tariffs of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, probes and changes in fiscal and economic policy in the home could be imminent.
Trade is a key pillar for the German economy, which makes it more vulnerable to uncertainty and developments that change rapidly that currently dominate global commercial policy. A large number of taxes from the United States will take effect this week, including 25% tariffs in Imported cars – A sector that is key to Germany’s economy. Political leaders and heavyweights of the country’s automotive industry have struck Trump’s plans.
Meanwhile, Germany’s political parties are working to establish a new coalition government after the results of the February 2025 Federal Elections. Negotiations between the Christian Democratic Union are being carried out, together with its brother party, the Christian Social Union and the Social Democratic Union.
While several containment points seem to remain among the parties, their conversations have already thrown some results. Earl this month, Germany legislators voted in favor of a main fiscal packagewhich included amendments to long -standing debt rules to allow a greater defense expense and an infrastructure fund of 500 billion euros ($ 541 billion).
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