Coverage tagged: Germany (DEU)
Every story tagged to Germany in the reporting behind our ratings, newest first. State-self-reported sources are excluded from scoring; non-anglophone coverage is surfaced in translation. Every card links to its source.
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Finance ministers of Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Portugal and Spain jointly asked the Irish presidency to put a windfall tax on Hormuz-inflated oil profits on the Sept 18-19 Ecofin agenda, with Dublin open to the debate. Fiscal-policy signal, no score moves.
A simultaneous long-duration selloff on Aug 18 set a record UK 50-year gilt yield (5.392%), the highest 10-year JGB since September 1996 (2.9494%), French yields since 2008 and German since 2011, with the US 30-year at 5.33% (19-year high). Global term-premium repricing; drove the US fiscal cut alongside the Treasury's buyback response.
The ZEW indicator of German economic sentiment rose to a five-month high July 21 on hopes around Chancellor Merz's reform package, improving more than expected. A dated positive already broadly priced into Germany's strong fiscal outlook; noted, no score moved.
37 heads of state/government met in Paris July 13 (Macron, Starmer, Merz co-chairing, Zelensky present) focused on Ukraine's air defense: SAMP/T batteries and 16 Rafale jets pledged, with Ukrainian co-pilots flying Mirage jets in the July 14 Bastille Day flyover as concrete implementation. Corroborates the Ukraine alliance move.
Chancellor Merz warned July 9 that the fringes could send Germany 'to the abyss' as the AfD polled at 28%, ahead of his CDU/CSU at 22%, amid coalition-reform friction and labor unrest. Germany political_stability 1 to 0.