The country is focused on exports, but China is slowing imports and U.S. tariff threats are growing. Politicians are offering few alternatives.

The Ifo Institute's business-climate index rose to 85.1 in January from 84.7 in December, a little better than expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal. December's result was the ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front-runner in the race to be Germany’s next chancellor, warned domestic companies against making bigger investments in China.

Auto industry jobs have long been the lifeblood of the German town of Luedenscheid but now, a trade union official says, the ...

Auto industry jobs have long been the lifeblood of the German town of Luedenscheid but now, a trade union official says, the sector's woes have sparked fears it will turn into an "open-air industrial ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced cautious optimism on Tuesday on the potential for German-U.S. relations under President Donald ...

Essen is looking to compel both asylum seekers and recipients of welfare to work for the city in an effort to stoke an ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday laid out his vision to revitalise Germany's ailing economy at a campaign event in the ...

As ever with Olaf Scholz, his cri de cœur sounded more like a whimper. "Let us fight!" Germany's caretaker chancellor exclaimed in his familiar monotone at the close of a nearly hourlong ...

Incumbent German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a politics for "ordinary people" during the Social Democrats' party congress. The SPD is currently polling in third place. SPD delegates at the ...

Car giants including Volkswagen and Mercedes ... which hinder productivity and economic growth. Chancellor Olaf Scholz - currently gearing for elections after losing a confidence vote - has ...

(Bloomberg) — A vast empty field in Germany’s depressed east is where, for a moment, Olaf Scholz’s ambition to create a lasting economic legacy looked unstoppable. It was on that plot ...