The German pork industry, Europe's largest, is turning its attention to China, a vast market with a taste for pigs' ears, feet and other delicacies that are shunned at home.
EU finance ministers clashed Saturday on whether to shake up European sales tax rules to allow reduced rates for targeted services and products, with Germany a vocal opponent to any cuts.
Frank Bsirske, head of the Verdi labour union, has warned against the growth of the low-wage sector in Germany, saying the country is well on the way to creating a US-style class of working poor.
The board of German insurer Allianz is to recommend its Dresdner Bank unit be sold to Commerzbank paving the way for a major overhaul of Germany’s banking sector, press reports said on Friday.
Deutsche Post has announced plans to cooperate with supermarket discounter Aldi to increase the number of its “Packstation” automated post offices.
Nokia will reimburse the German state of North Rhine-Wesphalia more than €1.3 million ($2 million) to resolve a plant closure dispute that has cost the mobile phone giant tens of millions already, officials said Sunday.
A general strike by Lufthansa's staff could have repercussions for Germany's Olympic team flying to Beijing, but the air carrier says it will do all it can to get German athletes to China.
German consumer prices rose by 3.3 percent in June on a 12-month basis, the biggest increase since December 1993, final figures released Wednesday by the national statistics office Destatis showed.
Regional French bank Credit Mutuel said on Friday that it will pay €4.9 billion ($7.7 billion) to buy the German business of US banking giant Citigroup, hard hit by the global financial crisis.
Faced with job losses due to the high price of diesel and increased road tolls, German truck drivers say they'll do everything short of strike to draw attention to their plight.
The German employers federation (BDA) will attempt to force the government to lower the level of employer contributions to unemployment insurance, BDA president Dieter Hundt told the <i>Bild am Sonntag</i> newspaper.
Germany's national phone company, Deutsche Telekom spied on its staff for years to see who had unauthorized contacts with journalists, a former security chief at the company said on Saturday.
German inflation appeared stuck at a high level on Friday after Europe's biggest economy reported a 4.2 percent jump in producer prices, supporting the case for eurozone interest rates to stay on hold for much of this year.
