Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Trucks and cars move along on a highway in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael ...

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 ...

BERLIN — Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to restore Germany’s industrial competitiveness by putting climate policies on the back burner. Germany’s economic policies have ...

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 ...

HAMBURG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Germany's meat and dairy exports outside the EU face severe restrictions after the country’s first case of the livestock disease foot-and-mouth was confirmed on ...

The last reported outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany occurred in Lower Saxony in 1988, and the last positive case in Europe was detected in Bulgaria in 2011. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is ...

More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. The German government has also voiced fears that the platform is warping ...

Ahead of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s livestreamed chat with Alice Weidel, chancellor candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, there’s one thing we’re pretty sure we can rule ...

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 ...