(The Government of Germany)
The German economy grew by 0.3 per cent as it lurched towards the end of 2020, a year marked by the coronavirus crisis.
That represented an upwards revision of the Federal Statistics office’s (Destatis) previous estimate of just 0.1-per-cent growth for the last three months of 2020.
That period saw the return of Germany’s second lockdown, which began in November with the closure of restaurants, bars and other establishments, and was tightened further the following month as schools, retailers and other parts of public life followed suit.
