BERLIN: The German economy, Europe’s largest, grew by 1.9 percent in 2016 powered by private consumption and state spending on refugees, the federal statistics office Destatis said Thursday in a preliminary estimate.

The estimate beats last year’s growth figure of 1.7 percent but is still subject to change once the official fourth quarter results are in.

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