Germany’s political leadership is finally conceding that shutting down the country’s nuclear power plants was a costly ...

“We heard about this half an hour before it was on TV ,” says a white-uniformed employee in the shop at the factory gates.

German government officials accused Tesla founder Elon Musk on Monday of attempting to interfere in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections on behalf of the country's far-right political party, ...

The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient ...

The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz's invitation to withdraw its confidence in him and his government on Monday, clearing the way for an early election on Feb. 23 necessitated by the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz responded to criticism from billionaire Elon Musk. Musk called Scholz an "incompetent fool" and signaled his support for Germany's AfD party. In a new interview, Scholz ...

The German economy expanded for the first time in three years in 2025 as consumers and a government spending surge begin to ...

BERLIN — Six weeks into his current term in office, President Trump was asked by a reporter about countries, like Germany, that for decades had not spent 2% of their GDPs on defense — despite, like ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research, about Germany's weakened economy and its potential impact on the country's upcoming elections.

FOR WEEKS German officials had fretted about the risk of a terrorist attack on the country’s Christmas markets: crowded, difficult-to-secure gatherings with religious connotations that could make them ...

When German voters go to the polls Sunday, the country’s moribund economy — and promises to fix it — will be front of mind. But Donald Trump’s looming import tariffs will make that daunting task even ...