German exports rose unexpectedly in August as demand from the United States and China picked up, official data showed Wednesday, offering a rare bright spot for Europe's struggling top economy.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders on Sunday.
Britain is slipping down the list of Germany's most important trade partners, official data showed Monday, after its 2016 vote to quit the EU marked an end to growth in exchanges.
After years tangled in the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal, German carmakers could suffer huge losses if the United States carries out its threat to levy tariffs on European car imports.
Germany plans to toughen rules on non-EU share purchases and acquisitions of its strategic companies, a report said Sunday, amid growing disquiet about takeovers by Chinese firms.
According to the Institute of Economic Research (IfO), Germany will have the biggest account surplus in the world for the third successive year in 2018. It is not only Donald Trump who is irritated by the country’s export-heavy economy.
German cabinet ministers hailed a joint announcement from US President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker as a “breakthrough” which would save “millions of jobs”.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday warned US President Donald Trump against unleashing an all-out trade war after he threatened to impose steep tariffs on cars from the European Union.
Shares in German and other European car manufacturers fell on Friday after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20 percent tariff on cars imported from the bloc, traders said.
An industrial powerhouse built on massive exports and a gigantic car industry, Germany is among the nations most sensitive to mounting trade tensions between the United States and other major economies.
Germany's central bank said on Friday it had sharply downgraded its economic growth forecast for 2018 but grew more optimistic for next year, saying the present boom should continue although the
danger of a trade war is rising.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she expected "contentious discussions" at a G7 summit this week, given
differences with US President Donald Trump on trade, climate and security.
Chancellor Angela Merkel blasted US import duties on steel and aluminium imports Thursday as "illegal" and said they risked sparking a disastrous "spiral" of retaliatory measures.
German businesses should immediately halt their operations in Iran following President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of
the Iran nuclear deal, the US ambassador to Germany said on Tuesday.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier voiced concern on Sunday over a "substantial change" in trans-Atlantic ties, amid
European tensions with US President Donald Trump over trade, defence and the Iran nuclear deal.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to the White House on Friday for talks with Donald Trump, facing an uphill struggle to save the Iran nuclear deal, avoid a trade war and make her relationship with the US president functional again.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits US President Donald Trump on Friday for a last-ditch European effort to prevent a transatlantic trade war and save the Iran nuclear deal.
Germany expects Washington to impose punitive tariffs on EU aluminium and steel imports from May 1st, a government source said on Thursday, hours before Chancellor Angela Merkel was to head for the United States.
Investor confidence in Germany tumbled to its lowest level since 2012 in April, a key survey showed Tuesday,
as geopolitical concerns and trade tensions weighed on Europe's top economy.
US President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium risk escalating into a threat to the international trading system, a highly-regarded group of German economists said Wednesday.
Confidence among investors in Europe's largest economy Germany plunged in March, with a monthly barometer dropping to its lowest level in 18 months, reflecting fears of a transatlantic trade war.
