Germany's key skilled trades sector fears 80,000 job losses per year

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2026-11-15

Berlin (dpa) - The crisis in Germany's skilled trades sector is worsening despite more favourable growth forecasts, the president of the German Confederation of Skilled Trades said on Sunday. "Our business climate index is at the level of the coronavirus pandemic, investment has fallen to the level of the financial crisis," Jörg Dittrich told newspapers of the Funke Media Group. He warned that, if nothing was done to counter this, the trade secto......

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