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France and Germany on Friday agreed to better integrate their energy markets and find common ground on EU green laws as part of a sweeping bilateral reset following years of …
France and Germany vow to deepen ties on green rules, power links in energy ‘reset’ Read More
Italy, France and Germany’s leaders are readying a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with calls for concrete action to boost EU-wide investment and help the automotive …
Italy, France, Germany plan competitiveness push on Brussels Read More
BERLIN – The German cabinet passed its 2026 budget draft on Wednesday, leaving it open, however, how the government will fill gaping holes in financial planning over the coming years. …
Germany agonises over €200 billion budget hole Read More
What determines who holds power in the boardrooms of Germany’s biggest companies? Is it performance? Or do factors such as social background play a bigger role? The sociologist Michael Hartmann, an emeritus professor …
Germany’s business elite and the illusion of meritocracy Read More
Aid for Ukraine will now be exempt from German budget rules under a deal cut in Berlin to pass a massive debt-backed infrastructure and military spending package. BERLIN – Germany’s …
German parties strike deal to pass historic debt-funded investment package Read More
BERLIN (AP) — The prospective partners in Germany’s next government said Tuesday they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to allow for higher defense spending, an issue …
Germany’s likely next government seeks higher defense spending as doubts rise about US commitment Read More
Donald Trump may have only recently re-entered the Oval Office, but his radical anti-climate ideas are on the march across the globe. A CORRECTIV investigation can reveal that politicians, think …
Who is Importing Donald Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda to Germany? Read More
BERLIN, Feb 2 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday said it was important not to divide the world with new trade barriers, as everyone benefits from globalisation, after …
Germany’s Scholz on tariffs: important not to divide the world Read More
When Stefan Schreiber decided to invest in a carbon emission reduction project with a Chinese company, he was convinced he was dealing with a trustworthy business partner. “They made a …
How a Chinese firm ran a billion-euro carbon credit scam Read More
The German term “Zeitenwende,” which literally translates to “a change of times,” is being used rather frequently in German politics at the moment. Coined by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to address the new foreign and …
How the VW crisis is a failure of Germany’s car policy Read More