Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Christian Lindner

Thousands of tractors block Berlin traffic over plans to end diesel subsidy

Farmers join a rally in the German capital demanding a rethink of the government’s plan to end fuel tax break.

Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on strikes and protests in Germany: this is no time for austerity

Editorial: Olaf Scholz needs a new economic approach to heal divisions in a country renowned for its consensual politics

The Guardian - UK

‘The mood is heating up’: Germany fears strikes will play into hands of far right

Angry protests by farmers, hauliers and railway workers risk being exploited by populists such as Alternative für Deutschland

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Germany's government waters down a cost-cutting plan that infuriated the country's farmers

The German government is watering down cost-saving plans that have infuriated farmers

The Independent UK

Members of Germany's smallest governing party vote to stay in Scholz's coalition, prompting relief

Members of the smallest party in German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular coalition have voted in a low-profile ballot to stay in the troubled government, but the result underlines the three-party alliance’s difficulties

The Independent UK

EU Strikes Budget Reform Deal After Two-year Wrangle

The EU agreed reforms Wednesday that will loosen budget rules with the goal of encouraging investments while keeping debt and spending under control, after France and Germany bridged their differences.

International Business Times

The Guardian view on the EU at a crossroads: time for new economic thinking

Editorial: Plans to reintroduce the straitjacket of fiscal rules, at a time when the union faces exceptional challenges, are a mistake

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Has the Ukraine war made Europe politically mature — or more transactional?

Even as the EU invited Ukraine for membership talks, deep divisions are now visible after a year of rare unity.

Al Jazeera

Germany has narrowly swerved budget disaster – but its debt taboo still threatens Europe

The ‘debt brake’ is enshrined in Germany’s constitution. A month-long crisis shows it’s time to abandon this political myth, says Shahin Vallée of the German Council for Foreign Relations

The Guardian - UK

German Coalition Reaches Deal To End Budget Crisis

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition has reached a last-minute deal to end a budget deadlock, an official source said Wednesday, after a constitutional court ruling upended its spending plans and plunged it into a crisis.

International Business Times

German government reaches solution on budget crisis triggered by court ruling

The German government has reached a solution to a budget crisis triggered by a court ruling last month

The Independent UK

Germany's Scholz confident of resolving budget crisis, says no dismantling of the welfare state

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is confident that his troubled government will find a good solution to a budget crisis triggered by a court ruling last month

The Independent UK

EU States Make Last-ditch Effort To Back Spending Rules Reform

EU finance ministers will try to hammer out an agreement over dinner on Thursday to reform bloc-wide spending rules after months of bitter divisions, especially between France and Germany.

International Business Times

Stretched To Breaking, Germany's Debt Rule Faces Reform

Germany's strict constitutional debt rule faces an overhaul after a shock court ruling blew a hole in the budget and left the government scrambling to make its sums add up.

International Business Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

German heat pump rollout at risk as government suspends climate subsidies

Move could also undermine nine funding programmes, covering schemes from energy efficient homes to cargo bikes provision

The Guardian - UK

Fear and anger rise in Germany over handling of budget crisis

Der Spiegel accuses Scholz of ‘leading country into chaos’ as MPs scramble to plug €60bn shortfall

International Business Times

Scholz Defends Spending As Budget Crisis Rocks Germany

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday staunchly defended his government's record on spending after a bombshell court ruling on crucial debt rules sparked a budget crisis.

International Business Times

Why You Should Care About The Budget Crisis Rocking Germany

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will address parliament Tuesday about an escalating budget crisis triggered by a bombshell court ruling that his government breached constitutional debt limits.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Germany's economy shrank, and it's facing a spending crisis that's spreading more gloom

Germany’s economy shrank in recent months, and business confidence is still in the dumps

International Business Times

Crisis-mired Germany To Blow Through Debt Limit In 2023

Germany will seek to suspend a constitutional debt limit for a fourth straight year, its finance minister said Thursday, after a shock court ruling upended government spending plans and sparked a budget crisis.

The Independent UK

Germany's highest court annuls a decision to repurpose COVID relief funding for climate measures

Germany’s highest court has annulled a government decision to repurpose 60 billion euros ($65 billion) originally meant to cushion the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic for measures to help combat climate change and modernize the country

Fortune

Top German politician warns against adopting a 4-day workweek: “Never in history has a society increased its prosperity by working less”

Unions are pushing for reduced working hours in Germany, a global trend that is prompting panic among the world's wealthy entrepreneurs.

The Guardian - UK

Taxation is not a ‘burden’. It’s Brexit that weighs Britain down

Taxes spent wisely improve lives and attract investors – and in fact leaving the EU has made cutting them harder than ever

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Germany’s troubled ‘traffic-light’ coalition: dealing with the midterm blues

Editorial: Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition needs to treat recent state elections in Bavaria and Hesse as a wake-up call

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 601

As the war enters its 601st day, these are the main developments.

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Alternative für Deutschland

23 stories

Ifo

16 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.