The country’s likely next chancellor wanted to focus on the economy—before suddenly betting everything on culture war.

Air defence radar maker Hensoldt offers to hire laid off engineers from Bosch and Continental as automotive job cuts rise

Germany's Commerzbank said on Friday that it posted a 20% increase in net profit in 2024, announcing earnings nearly two weeks ahead of schedule as it fends off interest in a tie-up from Italy's UniCredit.

Germany's Commerzbank said on Friday that it posted a 20% increase in net profit in 2024, announcing earnings nearly two weeks ahead of schedule as it fends off interest in a tie-up with Italy's UniCredit .

The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own parliamentary group voted against the bill. All of which puts him in an uncomfortable position little more than three weeks from an election that has looked like his to lose.

German car parts supplier Continental's ContiTech division is to close four plants and downsize two others, affecting a total of 580 employees, the company said on Thursday.

Germany’s parliament has extended a support scheme for some gas plants by four years to 2030, in a law hurried through just before the general election on Feb. 23.

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an anti-migration motion through parliament.

Sources told dpa that Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU plan to push forward with a highly controversial vote on legislation cracking down on migration in the lower house of German parliament despite last-minute talks with other parties.

THE world’s biggest underwater “Lego tunnel” will soon be dunked into the ocean to create a bustling connection between Denmark and Germany. The $7billion mega-project will

(Reuters) - German lawmakers have approved weapons and equipment orders worth about 2.5 billion euros ($2.6 billion) for the armed forces in the last parliamentary session before the snap election, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.