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.

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

The poor economic situation in Germany and nine other European Union countries could have negative consequences for the entire bloc, the European Commission warned in a report published on Wednesday.

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.

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.

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 ...

Proceeding at the speed of the past three decades will only make Europe less safe, less prosperous and less capable of determining its own future. It is time to put the sirens on and rush to the rescue of a peaceful Europe that is enlarging, not contracting, under the assaults of tanks and hybrid wars. ■