Economy

  A few weeks after the groundbreaking budget agreement adopted by the European Council on July 21, 2020, it would be tempting to say that COVID-19 changed everything...

  BRUSSELS   ---   Euro zone consumer prices fell in August, the EU’s statistics office confirmed on Thursday, pulled down by a drop in energy prices, but...

  On the evening of September 14, 2020, President Xi Jinping co-hosted a China-Germany- European Union (EU) leaders’ meeting in Beijing, via video link with Chancellor Angela Merkel...

  Only a few hours after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed a new climate target for 2030 in her State of the Union address, her...

  Two German biotechs, BioNTech and CureVac, have been at the cutting edge of the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine—a time-consuming and costly process. In order to get...

  An outbreak of African Swine Fever threatens to keep German pork locked in the European Union with China, South Korea and Japan all banning shipments, a major...

  On the rocky road towards Germany’s post-Merkel future, one thing used to seem certain: the shoes of the first female, Protestant East German scientist at the top...

  Germany announced on Wednesday that it's lifting its blanket travel warning for almost all non-European countries. But officials told The Local this will change little in reality...

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country can afford to take more more debt to help fund an unprecedented economic recovery program for the European Union, because...

  Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet signed off on plans to raise another 62.5 billion euros ($70 billion) in debt to finance the country’s largest stimulus program in recent...