“Anything but attractive”: traditional companies are leaving Germany in droves. The federal government has also heard the signals from start-ups and digital budgets.

This is “a warning signal” that a deeper development could be on the way, says IW economist Christian Rusche. “It’s no longer a question of  whether, but rather just a question  of how  and  how quickly,” he adds. The volume of traffic by traffic shrank noticeably by the end of last year.