Video: Angela Merkel on the key to growth

Jan 30, 2015

Angela Merkel

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Quite often so-called austerity is pitted against a so-called growth model. I think this is totally wrong. We need a growth-orientated, sound fiscal policy. We need investments. We need investments from the state, but we first and foremost need an environment which encourages private investors.

Watch a clip of Angela Merkel addressing the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2015 in Davos above, and catch up with her speech in full here.

Image: Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany, at Davos, January 22, 2015. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Moritz Hager

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