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The worst-performing major economy also faces a budget crisis. Germany's leader vows fixes, but how?
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Tuesday that his government will work “as fast as possible” to solve a budget crisis, but he offered few details on how he would achieve his goals of promoting clean energy and modernizing the struggling economy after a court...
Germany's leader vows to fix a spending crisis that's worsening gloom in the struggling economy
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday promised quick action to fix a budget crisis after a court decision blew a large hole in the almost-finished plan for next year and threatened to disrupt spending on efforts to fight climate change and cushion the impact of high...
Germany and Italy agree on joint 'action plan' including energy, technology, climate protection
BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Italy agreed Wednesday to work closer together in the fields of energy, technology, climate protection, security and cultural cooperation among other issues. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni signed an “action plan” in...
Germany pledges to invest 4 billion euros in green energy projects in Africa
BERLIN (AP) — The German government pledged Monday to invest 4 billion euros ($4.37 billion) in African green energy projects until 2030, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying that countries in Africa should benefit more from their wealth of raw materials. Scholz discussed the pledge...
Turkish and German leaders air deep differences on the Israel-Hamas war
BERLIN (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday aired deep differences over the war between Israel and Hamas as the Turkish leader made a brief and tensely anticipated visit to Berlin. Erdogan was invited to visit Germany months ago...
Germany's highest court annuls a decision to repurpose COVID relief funding for climate measures
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's highest court on Wednesday 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. The ruling created a...
Germany's opposition Left Party to dissolve caucus after prominent member launches rival venture
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s opposition Left Party said Tuesday it will dissolve its parliamentary caucus next month after prominent party member Sahra Wagenknecht broke away to found a new party with a more nationalist, migration-skeptic agenda. The Left Party emerged in 2005,...
Germany's support for Ukraine is to be 'massively expanded' next year
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's aid for Ukraine will be “massively expanded” next year, the foreign minister said Monday as Kyiv heads into its second winter since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Germany has become one of Ukraine's top military suppliers since the war started...
Germans commemorate 'Night of Broken Glass' terror as antisemitism is on the rise again
BERLIN (AP) — Across Germany, in schools, city halls, synagogues, churches and parliament, people came together Thursday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the “Night of Broken Glass” — in 1938 in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria. ...
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and state governors agree on new measures to curb migration to Germany
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the 16 state governors agreed on new and stricter measures to curb the high number of migrants flowing into the country, reaching a compromise on an issue that has become a huge political problem for the government and a hot-button topic in society....
