Germany

UPDATED: German airports strike grounds almost 300,000 passengers

BERLIN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - A 24-hour strike at seven German airports on Friday was set to affect almost 300,000 passengers as unionised workers press their demand for high wages.…

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Record surge in films at Berlin festival marks industry revival post-COVID

BERLIN (Reuters) - This year's Berlin International Film Festival, known as the Berlinale, marks a resurgence for the global film industry after years in the doldrums due to the COVID-19…

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Websites of several German airports down

BERLIN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The websites of at least three German airports were disrupted on Thursday, a day after a major IT failure at Lufthansa left thousands of passengers…

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UPDATED: German defence minister backs raising NATO spending goal

BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Germany's defence minister said he was in favour of raising NATO's military spending target, as allies gathered in Brussels on Wednesday for talks on whether…

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UPDATED: 24-hour strike at German airports on Friday

BERLIN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Strikes planned at seven German airports for Friday will lead to "massive disruptions", the operator of the country's largest airport, in Frankfurt, said in a…

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German economy expected to grow modestly in 2023 – European Commission

The German economy will grow slightly this year, the European Commission said Monday, revising upwards its previous forecast for a 0.6% contraction. In its winter forecasts, the European Commision envisages…

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Germany’s conservatives set to win repeat Berlin state election- exit polls

Germany's conservative CDU party is on track to win a repeat election in Berlin, in a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats which have governed the city-state for 22 years.…

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Berlin reruns election in test for Scholz’s SPD

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berliners return to the polls on Sunday, choosing a government for the city state for the second time in 18 months after, for the first time in…

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Call for English to be second official language in Germany

English should become a second official language at administrative offices in Germany, one of the country’s governing parties has argued, saying unwieldy bureaucratic German is proving too much of a…

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East Germany’s last Communist premier dies aged 95

BERLIN, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at…

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China cranking up political espionage, German official tells newspaper

BERLIN, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency fears that China is expanding its spy activities against Berlin, he said in a newspaper interview published on…

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German insolvency angst eases but retailers still struggle – Ifo

BERLIN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The percentage of German companies fearing for their survival fell at the start of the year across all sectors, although high inflation and low consumption…

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Germany to drag on European growth this decade – Scope ratings agency

Germany will act as a drag on growth in Europe until at least 2030, as it faces pressure to address a declining workforce and sluggish investment, according to a report…

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German industrial orders rise by 3.2% in December

BERLIN, Feb 6 (Reuters) - German industrial orders rose in December, increasing by 3.2% on the month on a seasonally and calendar adjusted basis, the federal statistics office said on…

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Germany’s Habeck optimistic that EU and U.S. can reduce trade tension

BERLIN, Feb 6 (Reuters) - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck expressed optimism before departing on a trip to the United States on Monday that a European Union trade dispute with…

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Germany’s Scholz: Putin has not threatened me or Germany – Bild

FRANKFURT, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin in his telephone conversations with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz "has not made any threats against me or Germany," Scholz said in…

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German beer sales recover but remain below pre-pandemic levels

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany sold 8.8 billion litres of beer in 2022, but sales of the beverage still haven't recovered from the pandemic, statistics office data showed on this week.…

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Germany has evidence of war crimes in Ukraine ‘in three-digit range’ – prosecutor

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has collected evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, the country's prosecutor general said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding that he saw a need…

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German government backs €49 public transport ticket

A €49 transport ticket valid throughout Germany is to be introduced on May 1, Olaf Scholz's government decided on Wednesday. The Cabinet approved a draft law by Transport Minister Volker…

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Brazil’s Lula cold-shoulders Germany’s Scholz on Ukraine support

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday said Moscow made a mistake invading Ukraine, but speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz he kept clear of condemning the Russian attack. It…

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Pro-Kremlin activists in Germany gave money for Russian army gear

A group of pro-Russian activists in Germany donated funds to a Russian army division fighting in Ukraine, and the money was used to purchase walkie-talkie radios, headphones and telephones, according…

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Kremlin: Putin open ‘to contacts’ with Germany’s Scholz -RIA

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to contacts with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz though has no phone call scheduled with him, a Kremlin spokesman told the state RIA…

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Lufthansa edges closer to getting stake in Alitalia successor airline

Italy's Treasury on Friday said it had signed a letter of intent with Lufthansa over the sale of a minority stake in state-owned airline ITA Airways, paving the way for negotiations with…

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Two killed in knife attack on train in northern Germany

BROKSTEDT, Germany (Reuters) - Two people were killed and several others injured when a 33-year-old stateless Palestinian man attacked them with a knife on Wednesday night on a regional train…

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Germany to narrowly avoid recession in 2023 – govt forecast

BERLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The German government has revised up its economic forecast with Europe's largest economy now expected to narrowly avoid recession this year as inflation eases, according…

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BNP Paribas Frankfurt office searched in cum-ex probe

BERLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - BNP Paribas said on Wednesday that prosecutors were searching its Frankfurt premises as part of an long-running investigation into a multibillion-euro tax fraud scheme known…

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Strike over pay at Berlin airport grounds all flights -operator

BERLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Staff at Germany's BER airport in capital Berlin went on strike to press their pay demands on Wednesday and the airport operator said all regular…

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German economy more resilient than feared, Bundesbank says

FRANKFURT, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The German economy is proving more resilient than expected as the stress on energy markets is easing and supply chain bottlenecks are slowly dissipating, the…

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Strike at Berlin airport to ground flights on Wednesday

BERLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The operator of Germany's BER airport in the capital Berlin expects a strike planned for Wednesday to ground all regular passenger flights, the airport operator…

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Germany to join Mediterranean hydrogen pipeline project

Germany will join a new hydrogen pipeline project between Spain, Portugal and France, according to the Franco-German declaration on Sunday's 60th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty. The project, called H2Med,…

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German producer prices rose in December but at slower pace

BERLIN (Reuters) - German producer prices rose in December at a slower rate than the previous month, as inflation eases in Europe's largest economy due in part to lower energy…

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Scholz and Macron celebrate 60 years of Elysee Treaty

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris on Sunday to mark 60 years since the signing of the Elysee Treaty. Speaking at the Sorbonne…

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Wind lobby says German onshore capacity rose in 2022 but still far from targets

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's onshore wind power capacity rose by 25% in 2022 from a year earlier but was still too low to achieve the government's expansion targets, wind power…

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Push for more women on German company boards loses momentum in 2022 – study

BERLIN (Reuters) - The proportion of women on the executive and supervisory boards of large companies in Germany continued to grow in 2022 but at a slower rate than the…

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Germany’s education advantage over European peers at risk – IW Study

BERLIN, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Germany is well positioned in education levels when compared with its European peers, but a study conducted by the IW economic institute showed that this privileged position…

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Turnover in Germany’s restaurants, hotels rose markedly in 2022

BERLIN, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Turnover in accommodation and food services in Germany rose strongly in 2022 compared with 2021 despite high inflation, the federal statistics office said on Thursday.…

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UPDATED: German population rises to record high in 2022, driven by migration

BERLIN, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Germany's population rose to an all-time high of 84.3 million people in 2022, after stagnating over the past three years, as Ukrainian refugees came to…

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Germany forecast to narrowly escape recession in 2023

By Holger Hansen BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Germany is expected to narrowly avoid recession this year with price-adjusted growth of 0.2%, a source said on Wednesday, citing estimates from…

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Germany will not fall into recession, Scholz tells Bloomberg TV

BERLIN, Jan 17 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was convinced Europe's largest economy would not fall into a recession despite soaring energy and food prices in the…

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Climate protest not a crime, Greta Thunberg says after detention

LUETZERATH, Germany, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Environmental activist Greta Thunberg swiftly resumed campaigning on Wednesday after she was briefly detained in Germany during a protest against a coal mine expansion,…

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Updated: Boris Pistorius to take over as next German defence minister

Updated 1155 - German Government confirms earlier reports The German Government has confirmed through a statement that Boris Pistorius, the Social Democrat interior minister of the state of Lower Saxony,…

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Germany joins battle against EU ban on financial product commission

Banning commission-based sales of financial products from banks and insurers would be a "serious setback" to the European Union's capital market and limit choice for consumers, Germany's finance minister Christian…

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German defence minister resigns amid criticism, pressure over Ukraine arms

German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht resigned from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government on Monday, the culmination of growing doubt about her ability to revive Germany's armed forces against the backdrop of…

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Dnipro strike death toll reaches 40, Russia denies fault

The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 40 on Monday, with dozens more missing, making it the deadliest civilian incident of…

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Germany falls to bottom rung of investment ranking on energy costs, labour shortage

(Reuters) - Germany's attractiveness as an investment location has fallen four places to 18th of 21 in a ranking of industrial economies by economic research institute ZEW, newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine…

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UPDATED: German Defence minister resigns, successor to be announced promptly

Scholz accepts Lambrecht's dismissal request Unclear who might succeed her U.S. defence minister in Berlin on Thursday BERLIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht resigned from Chancellor…

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Repaired German Leopard tanks for Ukraine ready in 2024 at earliest, armsmaker says

BERLIN, (Reuters) - German armsmaker Rheinmetall could deliver repaired Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine in 2024 at the earliest and would need a confirmed order to begin repairs, its…

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Thunberg joins march on German village in protest against coal mine expansion

LUTZERATH, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Around 6,000 protesters - including climate activist Greta Thunberg - marched through mud and rain to the German village of Luetzerath on Saturday, according to a police…

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German defence minister Lambrecht to step down

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's defence minister Christine Lambrecht plans to resign, a government source said, potentially adding to chancellor Olaf Scholz's problems as he cautiously seeks to step up military…

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More than half of German companies report labour shortages

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than half Germany's companies are struggling to fill vacancies due to a lack of skilled workers, the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) said, in…

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UPDATED: German economy stagnated in Q4, escaping recession for now

By Miranda Murray and Maria Martinez BERLIN, Jan 13 (Reuters) - German economicoutput stagnated in the final quarter of 2022 and grew 1.9% over the full year, data showed on…

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Germany’s ties with China could change fundamentally – SPD leader

Germany would be forced to cut ties with China in the way it has with Russia should China attack Taiwan, the leader of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) told the weekly Die Zeit…

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German minister promises Ukraine weapons, EU accession help on surprise trip

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made a surprise visit to the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv near the Russian border on Tuesday, promising more weapons as well as "concrete offers"…

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Germany says it wants to increase pressure on Iran after latest executions

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday condemned Iran for using the death penalty against demonstrators, and his spokesperson said Berlin wanted to crank up pressure on the Iranian authorities with…

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Around 40% of German companies expect output decline in 2023 – IW institute

BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Four out of ten German companies expect business to shrink in 2023, a survey by the German Economic Institute (IW) showed on Monday, blaming high…

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German energy regulator: winter supply is safe, focus on next season

FRANKFURT, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Germany has enough gas to get through the current winter season without the risk of a supply emergency, the head of the country's network regulator…

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UPDATED: German police detain Iranian suspected of planning ‘Islamist-motivated’ attack

By Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT, Jan 8 (Reuters) - German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an…

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