German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

(Bloomberg) -- German stocks will likely keep rallying after the election as earnings remain strong and valuations are still cheap, said Marcus Poppe, co-head of European equities at DWS Group ...

(Reuters) -German healthcare group Fresenius reported fourth-quarter earnings above market expectations on Wednesday, driven by a strong performance at its hospital drug unit Kabi. Its shares ...

Narrow-moat Deutsche Telekom delivered a strong 2024. Full-year revenue reached ... 5%-6% in the next five years in US dollar terms. In Germany, service revenue growth decelerated to 0.9% (2.1 ...

Understanding the Alternative for Germany’s success in Sunday’s elections ... For years there has been a very strong correlation between the level of out-migration and the level of AfD ...

Germany’s “people’s parties” might be in danger of losing the support of the people. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), whose three-party coalition collapsed last year after three years in ...

Friedrich Merz, centre, the chancellor candidate of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, addresses supporters at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, after the CDU finished first ...

Celebrating its best-ever result, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made extraordinary gains in the last few years. It has doubled its vote share since 2021 with more than 10 million ...

Leader and top candidate for chancellor of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz addresses a press conference following a CDU party leadership meeting at the party's ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude ... on dismantling long-term security ties between Europe and the US. A strong Berlin government and a united Europe now seems more important ...

Merz-led CDU/CSU bloc has garnered 28.8% of the vote, followed by 20.2% for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) The opposition conservative leader Friedrich Merz has emerged victorious in the German ...

Center-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory in Germany's national election on Sunday (February after exit polls showed his bloc in the lead. Merz said he was aware of the ...