Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday laid out his vision to secure the future of Germany's ailing economy at a campaign event in the historic home base of the crisis-hit auto titan Volkswagen. In front of cheering supporters, Scholz defended his government's ...

The European Union is working on a proposal for bloc-wide purchase incentives for electric vehicles to support the bloc’s struggling automakers, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday.

Following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition, Germany is heading for early ... string of job cuts and poor results at leading companies throughout the year. Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker, has come to symbolise the problems facing ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced cautious optimism on Tuesday on the potential for German-U.S. relations under President Donald Trump, citing good first talks with his administration, but stressed the importance of "cool heads" in the face of uncertainty.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday laid out his vision to revitalise Germany's ailing economy at a campaign event in the historic home base of crisis-hit auto titan Volkswagen. In front of a crowd ...

Olaf Scholz became German chancellor with a pledge to modernise and jolt Europe’s largest economy from its paralysis. But just two months after taking office, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 ripped the Social Democrat’s plans apart and strained his coalition with the Greens and the Liberals.

Germany is in the middle of its worst economic slowdown in years. Official figures show two years of consecutive GDP contraction, and 2025 is unlikely to bring any relief, projected at near-zero growth.

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 sector's woes have sparked fears it will turn into an "open-air industrial museum".

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 museum".

Activists projected a video onto the façade of a Tesla factory in Berlin, Germany, depicting Elon Musk making a gesture that has been interpreted by some as a Nazi salute. The image showed Musk next to the word "Heil,

The world’s richest man set out on a quest to boost the European powerhouse’s far-right opposition.