Export Champions - Germany in the Dock | Quadriga

Germany is facing criticism from Brussels about its trade surplus. The EU is worried by the fact that its largest member state exports a lot more than it imports. The Commission wants to determine whether Germany's export surplus is having an adverse effect on the rest of Europe. Are Germany's surpluses leading to debts elsewhere? And will the debtor countries be able to pay what they owe?

Guests:

Theodore Kouvakas - studied art history in Florence and architecture in Venice, and trained to become a journalist. His areas of expertise include European financial markets and foreign policy.

Ursula Weidenfeld - has a PhD in history from the University of Bonn and studied journalism at the Holtzbrinck School in Düsseldorf. She became Berlin correspondent and a deputy editor at the magazine "Wirtschaftswoche" before going on to head the corporations desk at the Financial Times Deutschland.

Andrew Bulkeley - he is a Berlin-based correspondent for "The Deal", a New York-based Mergers & Acquisitions newspaper, covering German-speaking Europe since 2002. His career starts as a financial journalist over a decade ago as a reporter in Bloomberg News' Frankfurt bureau.