Germany isn't sick man of Europe, but tired man who needs coffee -Lindner

Germany is not the sick man of Europe, but a tired man in need of a "cup of coffee" of structural reforms, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday. "Germany is not the sick man," he said at a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos. What Germany needs now is a "good cup of coffee, which means structural reforms," he said.

Germany is not the sick man of Europe, but a tired man in need of a "cup of coffee" of structural reforms, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday.

"Germany is not the sick man," he said at a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Lindner said Germany is "a tired man" after the recent years of crisis, and its low growth expectations are probably a wake-up call. What Germany needs now is a "good cup of coffee, which means structural reforms," he said.