Roughly 45.6 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in February 2025. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number ...

Nowhere is that shift as prominent as in Germany. Its armed forces, known as the Bundeswehr, have been the victim of years of underinvestment – but that is set to change. Presumptive Chancellor ...

By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Two days after a coalition of conservatives won Germany’s federal election last month, the governor of Bavaria took to Instagram to say the ...

Germany’s previous coalition government could not agree on necessary measures to achieve the binding national 2030 climate targets and a number of political issues were left unresolved. But in ...

Germany plans to unleash hundreds of billions of euros in debt-backed financing for defense and infrastructure investments in a historic shift to overhaul its notoriously tight limits on ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday, March 4, that his center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) would propose an unprecedented package of billions ...

Suddenly, Germany’s probable new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has done what seemed impossible. Together with his fellow centrist leaders, he has unveiled a plan to override a long-running ...

Friedrich Merz, who's expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has announced a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending on defence and infrastructure.