Germany's economy returned to modest growth last year after two years of decline. Official figures published Thursday show a 0.2% increase in GDP for 2025, driven by stronger consumer and government spending.

“We heard about this half an hour before it was on TV ,” says a white-uniformed employee in the shop at the factory gates. The factory outlet was busy, despite the snowy weather. Tönnies, the west German meat processor that now owns the factory, “promised to invest when they bought us just two years ago”, complains another worker.

After decades of restraint, Germany is racing to rearm as Russia threatens Europe and U.S. security guarantees look shaky.

GDP in Europe’s largest economy rose 0.2% last year, showing signs of recovery after almost a decade in stagnation.

The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient autonomy during COVID-19.

A stalemate between Denmark and the US over Greenland is prompting Europeans to establish a military presence on the Arctic island after a high-level meeting failed to defuse US threats over its future.

Germany plans to rebuild nuclear power after shutting its last plants in 2023, while nuclear energy resurges in France, China and the U.S.

Germany's government and Holocaust memorial institutions have demanded social media platforms stop the spread of fake images which they say are distorting and trivialising history. Concentration camp memorial sites and documentation centres expressed deep concern in a letter this week at a tide of so-called AI Slop,

Azerbaijan's state energy firm SOCAR has begun supplying natural gas to Germany and Austria via the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), further expanding the Southern Gas Corridor and helping Europe phase out Russian gas imports by 2027.

Public sector workers are set to go on strike across Germany from next week, as unions seek to increase pressure in an ongoing wage dispute. Authorities and university clinics are to be particularly affected,