Germany's top economic panel gripped by strife amid internal lawsuit Council of Economic Experts is grappling with dispute with one member over how to address potential conflicts of interest Chancellor Olaf Scholz, centre right, and Monika Schnitzer, chair of the Council of Economic Experts, centre left, at the handing over of the annual report on the assessment of overall economic development at the Chancellery in Berlin in November 2023. Veronika Grimm is second from the right © Filip Singer/EPA/Shutterstock Olaf Storbeck in Frankfurt A bitter legal dispute has broken out among Germany's top economic advisers - prompted not by policy disagreements over how to overcome the malaise gripping Europe's powerhouse but by an internal ethics code. As the Council of Economic Experts puts the final touches on its report due to be presented to Chancellor Olaf Scholz on November 13, one of the five academics on the panel has taken the other colleagues to court. Veronika Grimm, a prof...