Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the EU's ability to shape responses to the Ukraine war and other geopolitical and economic challenges.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned on Thursday that the threat of EU penalties on car manufacturers for violating climate targets must not become a burden on the struggling industry in the coming year.

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era.

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and recommendations on human rights for the next parliament.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk that only a far-right party can “save Germany.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is drawing a direct link between immigration and an attack in Germany where a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people and injuring 200 others.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday urged EU policy makers to avoid inflicting more damage on the European Union's struggling auto industry in remarks at the start of a summit in Brussels. "The Commission should therefore find a way to ensure that the fines,

BRUSSELS — Germany's law banning its government from running up debt is more to blame for a lack of investment than EU spending rules, the European economy commissioner said.

Germany has won approval from the European Commission for EUR 4.06bn ($4.2bn) in subsidies to support the operation of four floating storage and regasification units which the country chartered in at speed and high rates following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Germany's far-right AfD has stated in its draft election manifesto that it wants to leave the EU and the euro in Brexit-like fashion. What consequences would this have for Germany and the bloc?

Chancellor Olaf Scholz will call on Germany's parliament on Monday to declare it has no confidence in him, taking the first formal step towards securing an early national election in February following his government's collapse.

Germany and four other European Union countries have received several billion euros in EU loans and grants, the European Commission announced on Monday. The money comes from the bloc's Covid-19 recovery fund which was created in 2021 to deal with the economic fallout from the pandemic.