Overview

• About 60 percent of respondents rate Germany’s infrastructure, scientific facilities and production conditions as strong.
• Economic stability, access to qualified labor and innovation capacity top the list of foreign firms’ stated advantages.
• High operating and labor costs, complex bureaucracy and steep tax and energy charges emerge as the main pain points.
• Managers associate Germany with quality, discipline and pioneering research even as they note language and cultural hurdles.
• Nearly 80 percent of German industry experts judge the country’s business appeal to have declined over the past decade.