The 2026 review shows that Berlin is still far from getting realistic about how to save the country from ruin The German government has presented its ‘ Annual Report on the Economy ’ (‘Jahreswirtschaftsbericht’) for 2026. Given the topic, it is not a long document – 136 pages – and if you expect exciting ideas, you will be disappointed. That’s because this is, of course, a thoroughly political work, in the worst sense of the term: It is produced by a plethora of German bureaucrats from various