Polls show voters are growing restless with Friedrich Merz, raising pressure on the chancellor to deliver on the domestic stage.

Germany has had an abrupt awakening on the need to increase defence spending. The country enjoyed an oversized peace dividend for years: before the Berlin Wall fell, west Germany spent almost 3 per cent of GDP on defence. In the three decades after 1993 that ratio dropped to around 1.2 per cent annually. Military capabilities fell commensurately.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is not ruling out higher taxes on top earners to solve the country's long-running budgetary gaps. The government will do everything that is beneficial to the goal of economic growth,

Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Alphabet's Google Chrome web browser.

AS Monako Eliesse Ben Seghir is on the verge of leaving AS Monaco this summer, with German Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen emerging as

A newly released sequel to the most successful German movie of all time is also a hit, even though the original cowboys-and-Indians film hasn’t necessarily aged well.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG is working on a debut significant risk transfer tied to about $2 billion of US commercial real estate loans, according to people familiar with the matter, as the German lender seeks to exit the US market.