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
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz departed for India on Sunday in a high-profile visit aimed at strengthening economic and security partnerships between Europe’s largest economy and the world’s most populous democracy. Merz’s trip,
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Germany and India are moving forward on discussions for a potential $8-billion defense program, aiming to build six German-designed conventional submarines for the Indian Navy. The talks are expected to take center
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Germany’s government is considering a major expansion of powers for its foreign intelligence service that would allow it to carry out sabotage, cyberattacks and other offensive operations overseas, according to a report
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Germany has rejected proposals to create a new multilateral defence bank, dealing a major setback to efforts aimed at establishing a global state-backed lender to accelerate European and NATO rearmament. The country’s
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Berlin police will be permitted to covertly enter private homes to install spyware after the city’s House of Representatives approved sweeping changes to police powers, marking one of the most expansive surveillance
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Germany’s ambitious PEGASUS program has moved from blueprints to reality, with the first of three advanced signals intelligence aircraft now undergoing flight testing in the United States. The jet, based on Bombardier’s
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Germany is set to purchase Rafael’s Spike anti-tank missiles in a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) deal, Haaretz has reported. The contract, executed through NATO’s procurement agency, was signed with EuroSpike, Rafael’s European
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Germany’s new foreign intelligence chief has labeled Russia a direct threat to the European Union, warning that the current “icy peace” between Moscow and the bloc could escalate into open conflict at
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Germany’s industrial legacy is under renewed scrutiny as Klaus-Michael Kuehne, the billionaire majority owner of logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel, faces questions over his company’s Nazi-era history. The Financial Times reports that
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Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing is facing a multimillion-pound lawsuit brought by former employees who claim that a flawed internal audit, overseen during his tenure as chief auditor, damaged
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The survival of Western democracies is at risk without fundamental reforms to Europe’s asylum framework, according to Hans-Jürgen Papier, Germany’s former president of the Federal Constitutional Court, The Times UK reports. Papier,
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that the nation is facing a “structural crisis” rather than just a temporary economic slowdown, acknowledging that restoring growth has proven far more challenging than expected.
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Friedrich Merz’s first 100 days as German chancellor have been overshadowed by public discontent, economic stagnation, and coalition infighting, with new polling suggesting his early performance rates even worse than that of
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Germany’s finance minister Lars Klingbeil has sounded the alarm over a €170bn budget gap that he warned poses a “massive challenge” to the country’s ruling coalition, even as Europe’s largest economy moves
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Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing is facing mounting scrutiny after being drawn into a €152 million civil lawsuit that alleges his involvement in a flawed internal audit linked to a high-profile financial
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