Pressure mounts from Russia and US ahead of German election
Germany is set to start 2025 with an increasingly heated election campaign attracting attempts at influence not only on the part of Russia but also from Berlin’s traditional ally, the…
Germany is set to start 2025 with an increasingly heated election campaign attracting attempts at influence not only on the part of Russia but also from Berlin’s traditional ally, the…
SHORTLY after Joe Biden and a phalanx of European leaders gathered in Normandy last week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that launched the endgame in the…
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Germany’s budget crisis has given new momentum to reforming self-imposed borrowing limits even among the opposition conservatives, as hunger for sorely needed investment trumps an earlier political obsession with fiscal…
Asian refiners are on the hunt for crude oil to replace Kuwaiti supply as the OPEC producer cuts exports by nearly a fifth to feed its huge new refinery, which…
THE Higher Education Commission (HEC) has sent a circular to vice chancellors (VCs) of public universities drawing their attention to the financial crisis confronting the country and asking them to take a…
They have already had heated debates on talk shows and in state legislatures, but in two weeks' time, Germany's national parliament, the Bundestag, will see its first showdown between the…
Germany's general election brought the pro-business Free Democratic Party a triumphant return to parliament, but memories of its near-death experience last time will make for tough coalition talks with consequences…
Dozens of unemployed people troop into a church in the working-class Garath district of Duesseldorf, western Germany each Friday to load up on donated food, a small gesture towards those…
A bruising internal struggle to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel has left Germany’s once stable ruling conservatives in disarray and on the brink of implosion less than six months ahead of…