German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces a critical few weeks as electoral setbacks, internal party divisions and renewed tensions within his governing coalition threaten his political authority. With the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces a critical few weeks as electoral setbacks, internal party divisions and renewed tensions within his governing coalition threaten his political authority. With the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
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Mercedes-Benz workers’ representative Ergun Lümali has warned that threats of factory closures and demands for employee concessions risk damaging trust between management and the workforce, as the German carmaker seeks to reduce
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Volkswagen has been fined €1.2 million by Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for failing to meet mandatory financial disclosure requirements after issuing an earnings forecast for 2023 that significantly exceeded market
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When Max-Erich Feuchtinger died in 1960, he was remembered as one of West Germany’s leading transport planners. His designs had shaped the reconstruction of bombed-out Ulm, while he had planned motorways near
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The arrest of August Hanning, Germany’s former intelligence chief, has prompted calls across the Bundestag for tighter restrictions on what senior intelligence officials can do after leaving government, including demands for a
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August Hanning, the former president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has been arrested as part of an investigation into suspected treasonous espionage, the disclosure of state secrets and attempted treason, placing
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Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jäger, has warned that Russia is waging a “shadow war” against Germany, describing a confrontation that he says has moved beyond conventional military and legal categories. His
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I’ve been traveling through Germany for the past week talking about my memoir In the Realm of the Last Man (Der Letzte Mensch in German), starting in Berlin and continuing through Hamburg,
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv on Sunday accompanied by senior executives from German defence companies, as Russian forces intensified attacks on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure. Merz is expected to announce
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Dutch shipbuilder Damen is seeking €4.7 billion from Germany following Berlin’s decision to terminate the F126 frigate programme, according to a letter from the law firm Gauweiler to the Bundestag’s Budget and
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What began as a proposal to discourage excessive sugar consumption and raise money for Germany’s statutory health insurance has developed into a wider dispute within the government, with competing calculations over revenue,
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Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court, once a powerful institution of political compromise and public trust, may be drawn increasingly into the country’s growing political polarisation. A possible AfD ban would put its authority
More Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that Chinese espionage activities could target German research institutions involved in cooperation with Chinese universities, citing insufficient awareness of security risks within parts of the research
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Germany’s postwar democratic stability is often attributed to a constitution designed to prevent another Weimar collapse. But Weimar already had powerful tools to defend democracy, which political institutions often failed to use
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For decades, a persistent German family narrative portrayed the aristocracy as a social class that had viewed Adolf Hitler with contempt and largely stood outside his dictatorship. Research examined by Der Spiegel
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