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The Eurozone Economy achieved an exceeded forecast of 0.1% in the second quarter compared to stretching over the past three months.
Voted by Reuters, the economists had expected eurozone growth to flatlines during this period, following a 0.6% expansion in the first quarter.
“The slowdown in growth in Eurozone GDP in the second quarter was not as surprising as the rise from the front of the tariffs waned,” Jack Allen Reynolds, Associate Chief Eurozone Economist in Capital Economics, said in a memo.
“Overall, this data suggests that the eurozone has been restored to changes in US trade policy so far. The tariff frontline boosted the economy in the first quarter, and the effects of trade policy uncertainty appear to be limited to this point,” he added.
US tariffs and their impacts have been the biggest concern for the European economy so far this year. President Donald Trump’s so-called mutual tariffs first came into effect in April as the second quarter began.
However, although the job has since declined temporarily, it has been plagued by a lot of uncertainty over the past few months as trade deal negotiations have been underway. Tariffs in several higher sectors, including automobiles and steel and aluminum, are also effective.
The European Union over the weekend agreed to a trade framework with the US. This includes the 15% tariffs imposed on the block. Some products are set to be exempt, and automobile taxes have been reduced to baseline levels.
European bond yields have changed little since data was released. Both French and German 10-year bonds continued on less than one basis point.
Germany’s economic contract
Earlier on Wednesday, preliminary data from statistical agency Destatis showed that production from Germany, the largest economy in the European Union, had shrunk by 0.1% in the second quarter of 2025 from the last three months.
The figure, tailored to price, calendar and seasonal variations, marked a sharp slowdown compared to the revised 0.3% expansion in the first quarter, in line with the expectations of analysts voted in Reuters.
Investments in machinery and equipment, and construction, were lower than in the second quarter than in the last three months, but Destatis data signaled while private and government consumption expenditures increased.
