BY TODD BUELL
FRANKFURT—Economic growth in Germany, Europe's largest economy, accelerated in the first quarter of this year, surpassing the pre-crisis level of early 2008, and beating expectations, data from the Federal Statistics Office, Destatis, showed Friday.
German gross domestic product rose 1.5% in the first quarter of this year from the fourth quarter of last year, according to inflation-adjusted, seasonally-adjusted and calendar-adjusted figures. On a yearly basis, GDP grew by 4.9% in ...
