EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of Bulgarians and Romanians are leaving Germany each month to return home, putting into doubt fears of a mass immigration from eastern Europe to the country.
Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, should do more to "guarantee financial stability in the eurozone" European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday.
Germany's upstart anti-euro party could capture seats in parliament in Sunday's general election and scupper Chancellor Angela Merkel's chances of holding on to her centre-right coalition, a poll on Thursday indicated.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's struggling rival in next month's general election attempted to revive his campaign at the weekend by attacking her euro policy at his biggest rally to date.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU leaders pledged action on Wednesday on tackling mass youth unemployment in Europe. But the opposition said her austerity policies were directly responsible for the problem.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts European leaders on Wednesday in a bid to tackle sky-high youth unemployment which has left more than half of under 25-year-olds out of work in several southern countries of the eurozone.
Angela Merkel reacted with unusual passion to recently disclosed phone calls made in 2008 between Irish bankers in which they mocked Germany's efforts to save the euro and sang "Deutschland Ãœber Alles". Merkel said she had only "contempt" for them.
Germany's efforts to save the euro and urge other European Union countries to embrace austerity to crawl out of the economic crisis is being greeted negatively by people across the bloc, a new poll has revealed.
Germany, Italy, France and Spain sent their economy and labour ministers to Rome on Friday to try to find ways to reduce the mass youth unemployment blighting the lives of millions across Europe.
The European Central Bank on Tuesday defended its controversial bond purchase scheme, credited with pulling back the eurozone from the brink of collapse last year, in front of the Germany's highest tribunal, the Constitutional Court.
A rejection by Germany's highest court of the European Central Bank's controversial OMT bond purchase programme would have serious consequences for the eurozone, a top German ECB official warned on Monday.
The economic outlook for Germany is brightening, its central bank said Friday, as improved trade data suggested Europe's biggest economy is slowly leaving its recent weakness behind it.
The International Monetary Fund lowered Monday its forecast for German growth this year to just 0.3 percent, but predicted that Europe's biggest economy will experience a recovery in the second half of 2013.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated Sunday she was against handing wider powers to the European Union, seeking instead to bolster economic cooperation between the bloc's 27 countries.
Thousands of protesters rallied in central Frankfurt on Saturday to voice growing European discontent against a string of austerity measures that have been applied across the continent over the debt crisis.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed a united front to push for jobs, growth and reforms, including a full-time eurozone chief, as they met Thursday evening for talks in Paris.
With banking union brewing and London mulling an EU exit, analysts are wondering whether Frankfurt is ready to take on the mantle as Europe's unchallenged financial capital.
European Union proposals to eliminate one and two cent euro coins is annoying some Germans, including a few at the Bundesbank, while others think an EU idea to introduce one and two-euro notes is a good one.
While a third of Germans would rather pay with the old Deutsche mark than the euro, economists warn that a German exit from the currency union would result in a disaster.
Germany said Friday that French President Francois Hollande's proposal for a eurozone economic government was "interesting" but reacted coolly to his call for strengthened European budgetary powers.
Germany will not publicly criticize France over economic policy, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble insisted on Thursday, amid differences between Berlin and Paris over growth versus austerity in battling the eurozone debt crisis.
The German economy, Europe's biggest, clocked up anaemic growth at the start of 2013 as the freezing winter weather put the brakes on activity, official data showed on Wednesday.
A wide-ranging new opinion poll by a respected US research centre has found that Germany is the only country where a majority still believe in transferring more power to the European Union to tackle the euro crisis.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has warned that only an onerous EU treaty change would create the legal framework needed to allow the formation of a single bailout agency for its ailing banks.
