Sentiment among German businesses rose for a fifth straight month in September to its highest level since May 2023, as the country’s tentative economic recovery holds. The Ifo Institute said Thursday ...

As the far right surges, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s unpopular economic policies and gruff manner have failed to sway voters turned by rivals’ promises of easy fixes. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from ...

Six in the morning, somewhere outside a city nobody is thinking about, an electrician is flat on their back in a crawl space nobody wants to be in, pulling wire toward a server room that will run next ...

Containers are seen in a cargo terminal in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks. We ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz remained defiant on Sunday, vowing to press ahead with potentially painful reforms to Europe's biggest economy, after suffering a bruising electoral setback in two ...

Elections pile pressure on unpopular chancellor Far-right AfD tops second eastern state poll this month Merz calls election result a 'disaster' but vows to continue with reforms Berlin polls show ...

Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio speaks during an interview with AFP in the offices of Law Zero in Montreal, Quebec, on September 15, 2026. ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images Canada and ...

At the beginning of 1945, Germany still possessed armies, functioning command structures, and territory stretching across parts of Europe. Only months later, almost everything had collapsed. Soviet ...

German economy minister Katherina Reiche has proposed new tax breaks on petrol and diesel to soften the blow from record fuel prices on motorists, a measure critics say would stir demand for scarce ...

Free speech isn’t just dying in Europe; it’s being ruthlessly strangled by an out-of-touch ruling class that’s desperate to snuff it out before it loses power. And those elites are hardly hiding their ...

BERLIN, Sept 16 (Reuters) - German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche said on Wednesday that it would ‌be sensible to temporarily reduce VAT on fuel from 19% to 7% to help consumers shoulder a spike in ...