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World Service,2 mins

Will Germany increase investment in infrastructure?

World Business Report

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Angela Merkel will serve a fourth term as Chancellor, but Germany faces challenges to increase spending on education and help six million people who depend on social welfare. Carsten Brzeski, the chief economist at ING in Frankfurt, tells the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Russell Padmore, Europe's biggest economy is enjoying good growth, but the government needs to modernise infrastructure like broadband connections. (Picture: Supporters of the German Christian Democrats party. Getty Images.)

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