Chancellor Merz may find it difficult to maintain the generous social welfare regime that Germans have benefitted from for decades.

Katharina Reiche will try to balance German energy policy between boosting industry and sticking with net-zero climate targets.

The short explanation for Germany‘s current economic malaise is that it outsourced its security requirements to the US, its exports to China and its energy security to Russia, and now finds ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

The plan had a transformational effect on the German economy, facilitating rapid economic growth and recovery and leading to the phenomenon known as the “Wirtschaftswunder” or “Miracle on ...

The tyrannical East German state collapsed, and freedom was restored in the heart of Europe. A miracle — all the sweeter for being so unexpected.

The other postwar miracle, far to Japan’s west, is the subject of a new book, Kaput: The End of the German Miracle. Its author, financial journalist and New Statesman columnist Wolfgang Münchau, ...

Germany, the driving force behind Europe, is currently experiencing severe economic and political turbulence, enough to rekindle deep-seated identity anxieties.

Though the much-touted German economic miracle has lost some of its sheen lately, unemployment in West Germany last month dropped to its lowest level since World War II. The number of West Germans ...