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German economy

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    German inflation drops below 2% for first time since early 2021

    Softer price pressure and weak economic activity increase chances of ECB rate cut in October

    Shoppers at a street market in Berlin
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    VW issues second profit warning in three months on weaker sales

    The lower guidance comes the carmaker looks to close plants in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history

    Volkswagen workers on the assembly line
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Energy sector
    European heat pump sales tumble as subsidies shrink

    Fading enthusiasm for alternative to gas boilers piles pressure on EU’s green agenda

    Workers assemble heat pumps for residential buildings at a Bosch Home Comfort Group factory
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Top economists downgrade Germany’s growth forecasts

    Structural problems mean country will struggle to return to pre-pandemic rates of economic expansion, say leading institutes

    Protesters in Hanover as negotiations over cost cuts take place between Volkswagen and unions on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    BASF SE
    BASF slashes dividend amid worsening German industrial gloom

    World’s largest chemicals group to cut capital expenditure and plans partial listing of agricultural unit

    A BASF chemicals plant in Schwarzheide, Germany
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Global Economy
    Deutschland, der Pechvogel

    ‘If you have sh*t sticking to your foot, you have sh*t sticking to your foot’

  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Commerzbank AG
    Commerzbank warns UniCredit merger is threat to German businesses

    German bank says potential multibillion tie-up with Italian rival could hit lending to Mittelstand companies

    A Commerzbank sign is displayed outside a branch in Magdeburg, Germany
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Germany’s botched data revamp leaves economists ‘flying blind’

    IT hitches force Federal Statistical Office to suspend consumer and services releases

    A woman walks past a shop window in Munich's city center displaying large red sale signs with discounts of 25% and 70%.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Daniela Schwarzer
    Germany should listen to Draghi

    The former ECB chief’s report on competitiveness ought to be an economic reality check for Berlin

    Combination image of Mario Draghi with wind turbines and digital networks and the German flag in the background
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Commerzbank AG
    German union vows to fight UniCredit move on Commerzbank ‘tooth and nail’

    Berlin ‘naive’ to put key lender to Mittelstand companies on the line, says Verdi

    An exterior view of the German Commerzbank tower in Frankfurt
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Germany faces jobs crisis ‘of a thousand cuts’

    Highly paid manufacturing work is no longer so easy to come by in Eurozone’s largest economy

    Workers assemble the new all-electric Porsche Macan at the Porsche assembly plant in Leipzig, Germany
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    VW warns staff it has ‘a year, maybe two’ to adapt to lower demand

    Finance chief says drastic cost-cutting measures necessary amid weak demand in Europe

    Volkswagen executives are seated at a table, while in the background, a large group of employees hold up red flags and banners.
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    German election
    Far right risks economic ‘catastrophe’ for eastern Germany, business warns

    Industry groups say AfD’s success deters immigrants that the region badly needs

    Björn Höcke speaks into a microphone at an election campaign event in Apolda, eastern Germany, on August 18 2024. He is wearing a white shirt and gesturing with his left hand. The audience, some holding smartphones, is visible in the foreground. A campaign poster with the words "DER OSTEN MACHTS!" is in the background.
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Markets InsightMoritz Kraemer
    Germany’s economy: down but not quite out

    The fixation with balanced budgets over everything else will be overcome

    A train travels along a railway bridge near the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    Eurozone rate cut questioned as German wages soar

    While most policymakers think pay increases will not drive up inflation, some economists are worried

    Commuters waiting for a train in Berlin
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    Investor expectations plunge in Eurozone

    Big falls in sentiment in bloc and Germany boost case for more ECB rate cuts, say economists

    A sign outside a Commerzbank AG bank branch near the Hundertwasser House apartment block in Magdeburg, Germany
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    EU-China relations
    German investment in China soars despite Berlin’s diversification drive

    Politicians warn of rising geopolitical tensions but country’s carmakers stick with Chinese manufacturing

    Car body parts at the Qingdao branch of FAW-Volkswagen Automobile
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    French and German falls in business confidence raise prospect of ECB cut

    Dip in readings signals eurozone’s two largest economies are heading for a downturn

    Tourists and customers walk down a shopping street below Sacré-Cœur basilica of Montmartre in Paris, France on July 22 2024
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    Fall in German business activity drags down Eurozone economy

    Purchasing managers’ poll hits 5-month low on weak growth in services and steep falls in manufacturing

    Man works on car production line
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Is Germany the ‘sick man’ of Europe once again?

    Its hostility to debt is folly or hypocrisy. It should use more of its surplus savings at home

    James Ferguson illustration of a person in a suit and trainers kneeling at the starting block on an athletics track.
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Germany orders ban on Chinese companies from its 5G network

    German telecoms groups to remove Huawei and ZTE components by 2029

    Huawei and ZTE logos on a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    German politics
    Germany vetoes sale of sensitive turbine unit to Chinese group

    Blocking of MAN Energy’s proposed deal reflects Berlin’s more security-conscious relations with Beijing

    A MAN Energy gas turbine
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    News in-depthDeutsche Bahn AG
    Deutsche Bahn struggles to shake off ‘travel hell’ reputation

    Delays mar Germany’s once well-respected rail network, with massive repair work still ahead

    England fans enter a public transport train for the stadium ahead for the round of sixteen match between England and Slovakia at the Euro 2024 football tournament in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    German businesses break with postwar taboo to supply defence sector

    Growing number of Mittelstand lifts bans on selling to arms industry following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    A Lockheed Martin F35 Lightning II jet
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Bundesbank chief calls for German tax cuts to boost investment

    Joachim Nagel says EU’s biggest economy must address ‘major challenges’ to fuel growth

    Pedestrians in Berlin
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