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2025-11-12 – The inheritance tax should be reformed and the preferential tax treatment for business assets should be reduced significantly. Generous deferral of the tax burden could reduce the liquidity burden on businesses.

2025-11-12 – The recently approved corporate tax cut promises a moderate increase in GDP and investment. A tax reform that reduces distortions in investment and in the financing choices of firms would have significantly larger effects in the long term.

2025-11-12 – The EU has fallen short of its economic potential. In order to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the European single market, trade barriers must be removed, the capital market strengthened and fragmentation in the defence market overcome.

2025-11-12 – If the Special Fund was used entirely for additional expenditures and in an investment-oriented way, it would have a significantly stronger impact on economic growth than under the currently planned expenditure path.

2025-11-12 – In view of the current challenges, Germany must develop new growth perspectives and security policy prospects. The opportunities arising must not be squandered.

2025-09-18 – Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Monika Schnitzer was reappointed as chair of the GCEE today.

2025-05-21 – The Spring Report 2025 discusses how the funds made available by the fiscal package can be used to promote investment, outlines also how obstacles to growth can be addressed by consistently cutting unnecessary bureaucracy and how Germany can cope with the…

2025-05-21 – In order for the fiscal package to have the greatest possible positive effect on overall economic growth, the funds must be used for additional investment.

2025-05-21 – Bureaucracy reduction must finally gain momentum in Germany. In order to make progress, information and approval requirements should be simplified and digitised and the administration should be modernised.

2025-05-21 – Structural change in Germany is accelerating and in the future will also affect regions that have been structurally stable and economically successful.

2025-02-13 – The Federal Government has proposed to the Federal President the reappointment of Monika Schnitzer to the German Council of Economic Experts until February 2030 and this was approved.