Next year, Germany will still be waiting on a government. But with everything from an upcoming World Cup to more benefits for parents, there is a lot to look forward to.
The vast majority of Germans say that having a good working environment and a secure job is much more important to them than more money or the chance of getting ahead in a career, a survey has found.
The German government finalized the 2012 budget on Friday - using what the opposition called "tricks" which they claimed Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble "would never accept in Greece."
Professors across Germany could get major pay raises after the Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the basic salary agreement reached in Hesse state was unconstitutionally low.
US President Barack Obama increased the pressure on leading European nations including Germany to end the euro crisis, with a speech calling for decisive action to help the global economy.
Germany’s seven oldest atomic reactors are likely to be switched off permanently after federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen struck an agreement with state counterparts on a final shutdown.
German Economy Minister Rainer Brüderle cautioned upon arriving in China Tuesday that a global trade war was brewing, amid wide differences between key trading nations on currency policy.
A handful of tattered photos are all that remain of Mozambican Anacleto Amade's two years in East Germany, where he worked in the 1980s under a labour scheme between the then-communist allies.
German inflation averaged 0.4 percent in 2009, its lowest level in 10 years, provisional figures released on Tuesday by the national statistics office showed.
<b>In a dark day for German auto workers, it was announced on Wednesday that tyre giant Continental is to close a factory with the loss of 780 jobs, while Daimler is to put a further 18,000 of its workers on shorter hours.</b>
German carmaker Opel, a unit of troubled US giant General Motors, said on Friday it has asked Berlin and regional states for credit guarantees to ensure its financing.
