Jobs

Thousands of steel workers protest against German job cuts

Thousands of Thyssenkrupp steel workers in Germany on Tuesday protested against planned job cuts, accusing bosses at the struggling conglomerate of mismanagement after a failed merger bid with Tata steel.

airline

1,400 Air Berlin workers to lose jobs: union

About 1,400 Air Berlin workers may soon be out of a job, some as early as the end of this month, according to a union paper obtained by AFP on Saturday.

international

Spiegel Online slashes English section

The online English language section of famous German news magazine, Der Spiegel, is to be drastically cut. It is not making enough money, magazine bosses decided.

budget

FDP demands flat-rate cut to all ministries

Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) said on Thursday that they planned to propose a blanket two-percent cut across all ministries in an upcoming meeting on the 2014 budget.

banks

Fed bank boss wants deeper cuts

German Federal Bank President Jens Weidmann has called on the government to make bigger budget cuts than planned so far, because of the country's "special responsibility" to the euro.

Crime

Police injured in Berlin anti-budget demo

An attempted manslaughter investigation has been launched after two police officers were seriously injured by a homemade shrapnel grenade during a demonstration against the government savings package in Berlin on Saturday.

Economy

CDU state premiers step up attack on Merkel's tax cuts

The brawl between Angela Merkel’s government and Germany’s state leaders over tax cuts intensified sharply over the weekend with two conservative premiers vowing to vote against the cuts and one even threatening to resign.