Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday laid out his vision to secure the future of Germany's ailing economy at a campaign event in the historic home base of the crisis-hit auto titan Volkswagen. In front of cheering supporters, Scholz defended his government's ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger in Germany’s upcoming election plans to put proposals for a tougher migration policy to parliament

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused his main rival in the federal elections next month of breaking a taboo by signaling his openness to pushing disputed measures on migration through parliament with the far-right Alternative for Germany.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sharply criticized Elon Musk's backing of the right-wing parties in the European Union, calling it "really disgusting" and said it was hindering democracy in the bloc.

The European Union is working on a proposal for bloc-wide purchase incentives for electric vehicles to support the bloc’s struggling automakers, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday.

German industry has for years called out high energy prices and poor economic policies for making them uncompetitive. A coalition of SMEs is now saying enough is enough.

The decline in European production is accelerated by a trend known as 'local for local', which sees carmakers, such as German brands, increasingly produce their cars and source their supplies in the destination country of the cars. That is, by building cars for the US market in northern America.

German companies, particularly the carmakers, face huge market pressure in China. For years derided as producing cheap, clunky cars, Chinese manufacturers — admittedly heavily supported by the state — have shot past their German counterparts in developing electric vehicles.

Concerned European carmakers are gathering in Brussels this week for talks with the European Union, as officials try to find a compromise between the bloc's ambitious environmental goals and the urgent calls for help from the embattled sector.

Germany is under “attack” from China, a senior opposition MP has warned, as Berlin grapples with a fresh wave of cyber attacks and espionage plots...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants at the country’s borders, with the help of a far-right party

A leading consumer-climate index conducted by research groups GfK and the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions slipped to minus 22.4 in February's forecast, from minus 21.4 in January. It was a little weaker than the minus 21.8 reading expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.