The country’s likely next chancellor wanted to focus on the economy—before suddenly betting everything on culture war.

Germany's Commerzbank said on Friday that it posted a 20% increase in net profit in 2024, announcing earnings nearly two weeks ahead of schedule as it fends off interest in a tie-up from Italy's UniCredit.

Air defence radar maker Hensoldt offers to hire laid off engineers from Bosch and Continental as automotive job cuts rise

Germany's Commerzbank said on Friday that it posted a 20% increase in net profit in 2024, announcing earnings nearly two weeks ahead of schedule as it fends off interest in a tie-up with Italy's UniCredit .

Germany’s parliament has extended a support scheme for some gas plants by four years to 2030, in a law hurried through just before the general election on Feb. 23.

German car parts supplier Continental's ContiTech division is to close four plants and downsize two others, affecting a total of 580 employees, the company said on Thursday.

In the early 2000s, the complaints were similar...We missed that underneath the surface many things were changing,” says Jens Ulbrich, chief economist at the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank. Back then,

Welcome to TOPLive. We’ll be covering today’s vote on a divisive anti-immigration bill in Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag. Conservative leader Friedrich Merz is taking a hard line and attempting to push through legislation with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany party.

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an anti-migration motion through parliament.

Sources told dpa that Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU plan to push forward with a highly controversial vote on legislation cracking down on migration in the lower house of German parliament despite last-minute talks with other parties.

(Reuters) - German lawmakers have approved weapons and equipment orders worth about 2.5 billion euros ($2.6 billion) for the armed forces in the last parliamentary session before the snap election, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.