Per Rosstat, Russian GDP growth rate slowed down to 1.1% YoY in the 2nd quarter, the slowest growth rate in more than 2 years and lower than EU’s 1.5% YoY growth rate
Per Rosstat, Russian GDP growth rate slowed down to 1.1% YoY in the 2nd quarter, the slowest growth rate in more than 2 years and lower than EU’s 1.5% YoY growth rate
otherwise, growth is poised to slowly pick up, due to energy crisis fading away and investment spending by the German government( which hasn’t started to show up yet , because government is still planning how to spend the 500 billion infrastructure special budget)
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source: [https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp-growth-annual](https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp-growth-annual)
[https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/gdp-annual-growth-rate](https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/gdp-annual-growth-rate)
Its like a pissing match of who can have the slowest growth
EU’s slowdown in Q2 2025 has a lot to do with the trade war uncertainty, especially for German exports
[https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/projections/html/ecb.projections202506_eurosystemstaff~16a68fbaf4.en.html](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/projections/html/ecb.projections202506_eurosystemstaff~16a68fbaf4.en.html)
otherwise, growth is poised to slowly pick up, due to energy crisis fading away and investment spending by the German government( which hasn’t started to show up yet , because government is still planning how to spend the 500 billion infrastructure special budget)