New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): German Ambassador to India Philipp Ackermann described India’s 8.2 percent GDP growth in Q2 of 2025-26 as “very impressive”, saying the upward trend makes India an increasingly attractive market and “a big, stable partner in the region” that offers good prospects for German investors.
In an interview with ANI, Ackermann said the fast pace of India’s growth is positive news for German businesses. “The growth in India is very impressive, 8.2% is an impressive growth. When you see the upward trend in growth, I think India, with a growing market, will be an even more interesting country to invest in, and a big, stable partner in the region, and an economically powerful partner in the region. So that’s good news for German businesses,” he said.
Official data showed India’s real GDP rose 8.2 percent in the July-September quarter of 2025-26, up from 5.6 percent in the same quarter of the previous fiscal year. The National Statistics Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), released the Quarterly Estimates of Gross Domestic Product for the quarter last week. India’s nominal GDP grew 8.7 percent during the September quarter.
Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran said the Indian economy is poised to record growth above 7 percent for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
Economic ties between India and Germany have been strengthening, with German firms active in sectors such as automobile manufacturing, green energy, industrial machinery, and emerging technologies. The partnership also extends to security cooperation, including counter-terrorism.
The 10th meeting of the India-Germany Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism was held in Delhi last month, where both sides unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms, including cross-border terrorism. They discussed counterterrorism policies and challenges such as preventing online radicalisation, misuse of new and emerging technologies by terrorists, countering terrorist financing, capacity building, judicial cooperation, and exchanges on the designation of terrorists and terrorist entities.
Both countries reiterated their commitment to deepen cooperation in multilateral forums including the United Nations, the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum, the Financial Action Task Force, and the No Money for Terror Ministerial Conference. (ANI)
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