Germany

WHAT'S NEXT?: Germany's immediate concerns will be the holding together of an increassingly fragile EU following the UK's Brexit vote and the recent Italian referendum. With its own presidential elections due in May 2017 Angela Merkel's government will be anxious to make a strong showing.

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• [New] By 2020, the EU is forecasted to face a data skills gap corresponding to 769,000 unfilled positions in the baseline scenario and being concentrated in particular in the large Member States (especially Germany and France).
• [New] Last year, Germany approved a 480-MW installation that its developer, Dong Energy, says will require no subsidy.
• [New] Offshore wind projects are attracting billions of dollars of investment and will become "the energy backbone" for European countries from Germany to the U.K.
• [New] Saying Brexit could leave U.K. financial institutions vulnerable to eurozone-dominated priorities pushed by France and Germany.
• [New] By 2025, India and Turkey are expected to overtake Germany and Japan.
• [New] The deal with Whole Foods suggested that Amazon could now look to buy supermarket chains in its major markets which include the UK, France and Germany.
• The United Kingdom's retreat could open a space for Germany, despite the fact that its 1.2 percent of GDP defense budget is far below the 2 percent NATO target.
• By 2020 China's e-commerce market is forecast to be bigger than the existing markets in America, Britain, Japan, Germany and France combined.
• The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany has seen its fortunes fade and is now predicted to get less than 10 percent of the national vote.
• The expansion of the Oracle Cloud EU Region in Germany will deliver the best cloud services.
• Germany and France will need to play a central role in a European defense system that is able to make decisions and act potentially without the United States.
• All new projects in Germany will require BIM / GIS integration for infrastructure related work by 2020 with ISO 16757 standards.
• BMW Motorsport will be using biologically effective light from Osram during the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring in Germany.
• European power companies based in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands signed an agreement to launch a feasibility study for constructing the North Sea Wind Power Hub on Dogger Bank at a cost at around $2 billion: It could go into development between 2030 and 2050.
• Increased use of automation could help cushion the demographic blow of an aging workforce in Germany and Japan.
• The expansion of the Oracle Cloud EU Region in Germany will consist of three high bandwidth, low latency sites-or Availability Domains (ADs).
• The growth in Germany is mainly driven by increasing unit avoidance costs per ton of CO2 as the low-hanging fruits of cheap mitigation measures will get more rare by 2030.
• European Union wheat production is forecast modestly lower at 5.541 billion bushels on a smaller expected crop in Germany but still 4 percent above last year.
• Germany will have to work with Macron to address the economic challenges that have driven so many voters to reject the European Union.
• Germany will likely miss the government's target of bringing 1 million electric cars onto the roads by the end of the decade.
• Both the US and Germany have an increased potential risk of job automation compared to the UK.
• India will surpass Germany as the world's fourth-largest economy by 2022 and push the UK out of the fifth rank in 2017.
• Brexit negotiations will leave UK citizens in Europe in a far worse position than EU citizens in the UK.

Last updated: 20 June 2017