Third-quarter rise in GDP lifts eurozone growth to 0.4% as a result of increased household and government spending Business live – latest updates Germany’s economy grew in the three months to the end of September, ending fears that...
Drop comes as carmaker faces battle with unions over plan to shut three factories in Germany Volkswagen has reported a 60% drop in profits amid a slump in sales in China, with the carmaker emphasising the difficulties it faces as it...
Adidas chief executive says dispute with rapper ‘belongs to the past’, and that the last of its Yeezy stock will be sold by the end of the year Adidas says it has reached an amicable agreement with rapper Kanye West to end all legal...
Daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd says family let down by US and German governments’ failure to save him Germany has recalled its ambassador to Tehran and summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires in Berlin in protest over the execution of a...
A state parliament debate about the design movement shows how fear of ‘un-German’ ideas is being revived for the 21st century Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist The far right generally isn’t fond of modern art....
Berlin warns of ‘serious consequences’ for ‘inhumane regime’ after 69-year-old Jamshid Sharmahd put to death Iran has executed a 69-year-old German-Iranian political scientist after years in captivity, sparking outrage in Germany and...
German carmaker warns of stagnation in the European sector amid news of deeper-than-expected action Business live – latest updates The German carmaker Volkswagen is planning to shut at least three factories in its home country, lay off...
Christian Dürr’s 75-second video, part of efforts to challenge far right party’s influence on platform, triggers slew of ‘cringe’ comments Fremdscham , the German word for feeling embarrassment that should rightly belong to someone else,...
US and European states urge Tehran not to respond, while Middle Eastern countries condemn Israeli operation Middle East crisis – live updates World leaders have called for restraint after the first open Israeli airstrikes on Iran, after...
Traditional Britain Group’s London conference includes speaker from Germany’s AfD party and far-right activists A group that emerged out of a faction of the Conservative party has become a forum for Britain’s splintered far right. A...
As leader of the AfD’s most radical faction, he is infamous in Germany and his critics have long accused him of using language that echoes the Nazis. This year, a court put that question to the test. By Alex Dziadosz Continue reading...
Citizen power forced Germany’s greenest city-state into a binding agreement balancing housing and nature When Fritz Schumacher laid out his vision for Hamburg a century ago, the sketch looked more like a fern than a town plan. Fronds of...
Progressives shouldn’t dismiss the ‘left-conservative’ leader – her popularity is driven by her powerful critique of runaway capitalism On a chilly autumnal evening last month, the Berliner Platz in the eastern German city of Cottbus was...
Robert Buckland, the former justice secretary, says ex-president ‘not fit for office’ The Labour party has put out a statement rejecting allegations that it broke US election law because activists and staff members have been volunteering...
US firm Wolfspeed and German car parts supplier ZF postpone plans over doubts about viability A project to build a €3bn factory making microchips for electric vehicles once hailed as part of a “return of the industrial revolution” in...
Authorities smash drugs gang in North Rhine-Westphalia after learning Düsseldorf pizzeria was delivering narcotics Pizza No 40 was long one of the best-selling dishes at a restaurant in the German city of Düsseldorf, until police...
Even as I am taught about the German credo of tolerance and compassion, the government is betraying it to pander to the far right I live in a small, quaint old town in north-west Germany, and every day I attend four hours of German and...
Troubles at VW point to growing doubts about future of Europe-wide sector as imports of cheap EVs rise For decades Germany has enjoyed a reputation as Europe’s car capital, with slogans such as Vorsprung durch Technik emblematic of its...
Unique experiment in German-language public broadcasting 3sat faces pressure from populist right In many countries around the world, breakfast TV means celebrity interviews, soap operas and last night’s football highlights. On the...
Goal seems to be for people ‘to lose confidence in the system’, says head of industry body after devices found in Birmingham and Leipzig If Russia is proved to be behind an incendiary device plot that caused fires at two parcels...