In general. polies issues are combining to weigh on overall economic output. and with the outlook not appearing too promising either it could well be that the e.u. is number one economy is heading steadily towards recession. so chris how bad would it really be if germany were to fall into recession well that depends on how severe the recession actually is i mean we were sort of in the same kind of situation back in 20122013 there was a small recession but you know in hindsight it was much much more of a statistical occurrence and by the looks of it despite the global economy having slowdown global growth having slowed down we are far away from the major downturn that we saw in 2009 however it s true economic growth has been weak for a year. there has been stagnation around the end of last year little growth at the beginning of the year and now contraction again and economists say ....