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German state minister commits suicide amid Coronavirus hit economic pressure

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"173035871"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">You thought 2020 was already going on as the worst year&quest;It seems like it&&num;8217&semi;s not done yet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br>2020 is a year that keeps on giving&comma; but in this case&comma; it keeps on taking&period;<br>Coronavirus has hit the global economy and has already helped the oncoming recession appear faster&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s no secret&period;<br>However&comma; businesses and common men are not the only ones hit with stress&semi; of course&comma; the stress bows down to the people in charge too&period;<br>According to the latest reports&comma; Thomas Schaefer&comma; the finance minister of Germany&&num;8217&semi;s Hesse state&comma; which includes Frankfurt&comma; found dead near a railway track&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br>The mentioned politician left a suicide note before he did the unthinkable&comma; as reported by the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung&period;<br>He also addressed the media regularly during the tough Coronavirus Crisis&period;<br>As he was a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel&&num;8217&semi;s centre-right Christian Democrats &lpar;CDU&rpar;&period; Mr Allgemeine Zeitung been active in Hessian state politics for more than two decades and was a finance minister for almost ten years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br>Mr Bouffier&comma; who is also a politician at CDU&comma; mentioned that he had received the news with &&num;8220&semi;sadness and disbelief&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br>Bouffier also made the statement that &&num;8220&semi;His main concern was whether he could manage to fulfil the huge expectations of the population&comma; especially in terms of financial aid&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Bouffier said on Sunday&period; &&num;8220&semi;He clearly couldn&&num;8217&semi;t see any way out&period; He was desperate&comma; and so he left us&period; That has shocked us&comma; has shocked me&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br>He also added &&num;8220&semi;Our sincere condolences go to his closest relatives&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The International Labour Organization &lpar;ILO&rpar; mentioned that around 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide&comma; which can lead to shuttering the global economy&period; Compared to it&comma; the 2008-2009 recession caused the unemployment to peak by 22 million&comma; as most of us stay at home in the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The UN body&comma; however&comma; mentioned it on a lower scale of around 5&period;3 million if the economic situation is contained&comma; which was caused by the Coronavirus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Germany&&num;8217&semi;s influential Ifo think tank&&num;8217&semi;s reports a partial economic shutdown could lead to a loss in between 7&period;25 and 20&period;6&percnt; of GDP&comma; which is based on a range of estimates and assumed partial shutdowns range from one to three months in length&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8220&semi;The costs are likely to exceed anything Germany has experienced in recent decades as a result of economic crises or natural disasters&comma;&&num;8221&semi; President of Ifo&comma; Clemens Fuest&comma; said&period; &&num;8220&semi;The crisis will also cause massive upheaval in the job market&period; This could put the situation at the high point of the financial crisis into the shadows&period;&&num;8221&semi; He also mentioned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">So&comma; by reading this article&comma; we are sure that you have also predicted by now that 2020 is going to be a very tough year for everybody all around the world&period;We understand you must be scared too&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s okay to be scared&period;<br>But &&num;8220&semi;with down&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s always a place for ups&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br>Next&comma; some months are gonna be tough all around the world&comma;so keep your savings ready and hope for the ups to come soon&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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