Elections have a way of crystallising views about a country and its prospects. With German federal e...
Elections have a way of crystallising views about a country and its prospects. With German federal elections due on 18 September, the tide might finally turn in favour of Europe's largest economy. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party, which has ruled in coalition with the Greens since 1998, seems almost certain to lose to the centre-right opposition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union. The question for investors is whether a change in government would unlock Germany's potential or just create another administration that tries to prop up an ec...
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