re: #65 Dr Lizardo

A bit of an economic paradox going on here in Czech Republic - consumer confidence is still running fairly high, while simultaneously, business confidence is the weakest it’s been since the middle of 2014; Confidence in industry is pretty much unchanged, but still at a six-year low.

think.ing.com

Business is still pondering the effects of Brexit and the upcoming retirement of Angela Merkel. Right now, Germany does not look like it can put together a viable coalition without involving either the right-wing populist AfD or the left-wing populist Die Linken party.