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.

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.

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 fi

Alice Weidel, the long-shot chancellor candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany, slammed the European Union for destroying the country’s auto industry and proposed winding back the bloc to a free-trade zone.

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era.

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.

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 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.

Clarkson said Germany has come to accept it must play a bigger role in defending not just its own interests but more broadly those of the European Union. “Increasingly, the concept of nation and the concept of being European blend together within the EU ...

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