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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kalyeena Makortoff, and Kate Connolly in Berlin

German economy in recession after high prices take toll, revised figures reveal

A German shop in Cologne declares: we close.
A German shop in Cologne declares: ‘We’re closing’. After a few statistical revisions, the German economy did fall into a technical recession this winter, as widely feared last summer. Photograph: Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Germany has entered a recession, revised official figures have revealed, after high prices took a bigger toll on the country’s economy than originally estimated.

Data from the Federal Statistical Office showed Europe’s largest economy contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2023, compared with the previous three months, when it shrank by 0.5%. The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of contraction.

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