Germany's economy almost stalled in the second quarter as the region's sovereign debt crisis weighed on confidence.<br /><br />Gross domestic product, adjusted for seasonal effects, rose 0.1 per cent from the first quarter, when it jumped a revised 1.3 per cent, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said on Tuesday.<br /><br />"The German data are certainly disappointing," said Juergen Michels, chief euro-area economist at Citigroup in London.<br /><br />"Everything is pointing toward stagnation in the euro area in the second quarter."<br /><br />But with Germany paying the lion's share of eurozone bailouts, Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, has so far shown a remarkable ability to get her way in Europe.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports from Berlin.
