{"id":433915,"date":"2025-08-14T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/08\/14\/istituto-ifo-gli-economisti-tedeschi-danno-una-valutazione-negativa-dopo-100-giorni-di-coalizione-nero-rossa\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:45:53","slug":"ifo-german-economists-criticize-first-100-days-of-black-red-government-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/08\/14\/ifo-german-economists-criticize-first-100-days-of-black-red-government-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"ifo: German economists criticize first 100 days of black-red government coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Economists at German universities criticize the economic policy in the first 100 days of the red-black German government, according to the findings of the latest<strong> survey conducted by the Economists&#8217; Panel of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifo.de\/en\/ifo-homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ifo Institute<\/a>.<\/strong> Forty-two percent of respondents view&nbsp;the economic policy measures of the new government negatively. Only a quarter (25 percent) are more positive. &#8220;Pension reform is urgently needed, but the measures taken by the German government go in the completely&nbsp;wrong direction,&#8221; said<strong> ifo researcher Niklas Potrafke<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The economists interviewed are <strong>particularly critical of the extension of the &#8220;mothers&#8217; pension&#8221;<\/strong> (support measures for women during pregnancy and the postpartum period) and the failure to increase the retirement age. Many participants are also critical of the debt brake reform,&nbsp;Potrafke said. <strong>The most positive aspect, according to the economists, is the strengthening of public investments<\/strong>, which is made possible&nbsp;thanks to the new special fund. They are also positive about the so-called investment booster through improved depreciation options for companies, as well as the additional investments in defense and the announced reduction of corporate tax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>In the short term, half of the respondents expect a positive impact on the economy from the&nbsp;measures the government has taken so far<\/strong>. Only 12 percent expect adverse&nbsp;effects. In contrast, economists are more skeptical about medium-term growth prospects: 34 percent expect a positive outlook, while 26 percent expect negative growth prospects in the medium term. &#8220;The debt-financed fiscal policy will boost the economy mainly in the short term. However, to create sustainable economic growth,&nbsp;<strong>market-oriented structural reforms<\/strong> are necessary, but at the moment, there is no sign of such reforms,&#8221; Potrafke said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 170 economics professors participated in the 52nd panel of economists of the ifo Institute and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the period from 29 July to 5 August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in the short term, half of the respondents expect a positive impact on the economy from the measures the German government has taken so far<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":429079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26267,27269,28834],"class_list":["post-433915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-governo-en","tag-ifo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433916,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433915\/revisions\/433916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}