"We are aware of the scale of the tasks ahead of us, and we want to take the first necessary steps and decisions," said Friedrich Merz, leader of the CDU/CSU conservatives and likely next German ...

Many businesses have welcomed the plans, but on Thursday, German banks joined those voices saying the reforms needed to be accompanied by overhauls to cut red tape. Foreign ministers of leading ...

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Auto supplier Continental plans to shutter one plant in Germany, as the company has fallen short of financial targets, despite earlier cutbacks. German auto parts supplier Continental announced ...

The image of German leadership has taken a hit at home as well as among other Europeans, with a notable decline from a median of 60% to 54% in the past 12 months alone. Slovenia, Norway ...

“If I understood him correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Friday. “That is ...

At 11:30 ET (16:30 GMT), the DAX index in... Payrolls, German CPI, Canadian politics - what's moving markets By Investing.com - Jan 06, 2025 2 Investing.com -- Wall Street is seen trading ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor ...

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But it needs one. I immediately thought of German as the most likely language to produce such a word. The grammar of German means that it is a language in many ways uniquely suited to combining ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has posted an historic result, cementing its role as a major force in German politics. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has suffered a ...

It is the first time that German voters will see four candidates on the debate stage. The snap federal election was called for February 23 after the current coalition government collapsed in ...