Geopolitical developments are becoming increasingly important in foreign trade – not only at a strategic level, but also in day-to-day operations: political tensions, trade conflicts, sanctions or regional instabilities can have both short-term and lasting effects on supply chains, sales markets and investment decisions.
To act successfully, valid, current, and well-classified market and country information is essential. It forms the basis for well-founded decisions, realistic risk assessment, and early identification of opportunities.
In this context, we would like to draw your attention again to our Online country pages draw your attention to. These have been expanded in terms of information content this year and are regularly updated via API interfaces with the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Statistical Office. Here you can find out about many markets, in addition to important macroeconomic indicators, the trade developments with Thuringia as well as planned LEG events.
In addition, together with our renowned research partner FitchSolutions to provide high-quality market information for defined countries and industries. Please contact LEG project manager Thilo Nürnberg if you would like to take advantage of this free service.
In recent weeks, we offered information events on geopolitics in India and Southeast Asia as part of a German Indian Roundtable (GIRT) Thuringia and our year-end event with geopolitics expert Ralf Schuster. This showed, among other things, the enormous momentum currently coming from the non-aligned markets of Southeast Asia and how much Trump's tariff policy is redirecting Asian trade flows with the USA to Europe, among other places.
