The looming void in leadership could thrust Germany into the same political purgatory that has plagued France, creating a leadership vacuum that the EU can ill afford at this pivotal moment. As 2025 approaches, the prospects for Europe’s two central ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned on Thursday that the threat of EU penalties on car manufacturers for violating climate targets must not become a burden on the struggling industry in the coming year.

Germany and four other European Union countries have received several billion euros in EU loans and grants, the European Commission announced on Monday. The money comes from the bloc's Covid-19 recovery fund which was created in 2021 to deal with the economic fallout from the pandemic.

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and recommendations on human rights for the next parliament.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is drawing a direct link between immigration and an attack in Germany where a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people and injuring 200 others.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk that only a far-right party can “save Germany.”

BRUSSELS — Germany's law banning its government from running up debt is more to blame for a lack of investment than EU spending rules, the European economy commissioner said.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday urged EU policy makers to avoid inflicting more damage on the European Union's struggling auto industry in remarks at the start of a summit in Brussels. "The Commission should therefore find a way to ensure that the fines,

Germany's far-right AfD has stated in its draft election manifesto that it wants to leave the EU and the euro in Brexit-like fashion. What consequences would this have for Germany and the bloc?

Germany has won approval from the European Commission for EUR 4.06bn ($4.2bn) in subsidies to support the operation of four floating storage and regasification units which the country chartered in at speed and high rates following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the EU’s ability to shape responses to the Ukraine war and other

As 2024 draws to a close, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government expects 2025 to be eventful as it assumes the six-month presidency of the Council of the EU and presidential elections that will likely see Tusk’s camp take full power in the country.