Germany’s economy, the largest in Europe, contracted for the second year in a row in 2024, official data showed Wednesday, underscoring the challenges facing the region as it tries to get ...

By Melissa Eddy Germany’s economic output shrank for a second straight year in 2024, data released Wednesday showed. How to revive it has become a central issue as voters prepare to go to the ...

German GDP contracts 0.2% in 2024, exports fall 0.8% First back-to-back annual contraction since early 2000s Fall in full-year GDP in line with forecast Fourth quarter's 0.1% fall suggests no ...

Germany, as a result, is the European Union's industrial leader in producing green infrastructure, having the most facilities for producing solar and wind technology. It has the second-most facilities ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed demands from US President-elect Donald Trump that Germany and other NATO allies increase defense spending to at least 5% of gross domestic product (GDP ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German military will establish a new division tasked exclusively with territorial defence, the army said on Saturday, bringing all existing reserve units under direct army ...

Germany's military is to carve out a new land forces division responsible for homeland security. The unit will be dedicated to securing critical infrastructure and key military facilities in ...

BERLIN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - German authorities confirmed the country's first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years on Friday in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of Berlin.

East Germany’s economy, on the other hand, was relatively weak throughout the Cold War. Perhaps the most visible symbol of Germany’s division was the Berlin Wall, a 96-mile partition that cut ...

In Germany, he has called the Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz “a fool” and the party’s president an “anti-democratic tyrant.” He is throwing his lot in with the Alternative for ...

Political leaders have shunned the Alternative for Germany. But on his social media platform X, Mr. Musk is pitching the party as mainstream. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Elon Musk is ...

EVs lost market share in Germany last year, now making up just 13.5% of all new car sales. While EV sales dropped, hybrid sales grew by 12.7%, and PHEVs saw a 9.2% increase. In December 2023 ...