Development of the economic environment and impact on financial reports

The macroeconomic challenges currently facing society, politics, and business are multi-faceted and often interdependent. The economic outlook remains vulnerable to significant downside risks, with geopolitical tensions and potential trade disputes in particular posing high risks to economic growth and inflation. Deutsche Telekom is aware that, in view of the current developments, extrapolating past experience to the future is only possible to a limited extent. Deutsche Telekom is constantly reassessing the challenges and takes them into account in its consolidated financial statements and financial reporting, e.g., when testing the impairment of goodwill, the recognition of deferred taxes, and the measurement of provisions, financial instruments, as well as of investments accounted for using the equity method.

Changes in the underlying parameters primarily relate to the exchange rates used for currency translation and to the interest rates for determining defined benefit obligations.

The euro exchange rates of certain significant currencies changed as follows:

The following key discount rates were used when calculating the present value of defined benefit obligations: