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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      How To Spend It In...
      An insider’s guide to Baden-Baden

      For Cheyenne Westphal, global chairwoman of Phillips auction house, the spa town is all about cakes, culture and cures

      Cheyenne Westphal at the Brenners Park-Hotel
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Markets InsightCésar Pérez Ruiz
      From black to red zero in Germany? Don’t bank on it

      Berlin has tightened deficit discipline as ‘bond vigilantes’ return

      A container ship in Frankfurt harbour, Germany, near the European Central Bank
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      EU immigration
      Germany backs down on human rights demands in EU migration rules

      Berlin was holding out on a remaining piece of the bloc’s asylum and immigration reform

      People at the German-Polish border
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      German economy
      German inflation falls to two-year low

      Prices rise by 4.3 per cent in the year to September, boosting expectations of a slowdown in region-wide inflation

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Berlin can sway the balance on EU migration crisis rules Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: the political case for Spain’s Sánchez to say no to an amnesty for Catalan separatists

      A member of the Italian army walks along the fence of the reception center for migrants on the small island of Lampedusa
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      News in-depthGerman politics
      German far-right party surges on immigrant ‘dystopia’

      Alternative for Germany is stoking anti-migrant sentiment in the town of Görlitz — and nationwide

      Sebastian Wippel speaks at an AfD election campaign event in Görlitz
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      Germany drops stricter energy savings requirements for houses Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: why Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska thinks the war in Ukraine should end

      Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Deutsche Bundesbank
      Bundesbank faces job cuts as consultants plot ‘modernisation’

      Germany’s central bankers up in arms over Boston Consulting Group’s recommended efficiency drive

      The headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      EU immigration
      Scholz accuses Poland of ‘waving through’ refugees as visa scandal deepens

      German chancellor demands investigation into allegations that Warsaw tolerated a cash-for-visas scheme

      Olaf Scholz
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Germany’s chaotic year: 1923 and the lessons for today

      Crisis bred crisis in the Weimar Republic. On the centenary of the turbulent period, two books offer a reminder of the vigilance required to sustain democracy

    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Israel
      Israel files complaint after German ambassador attends judicial overhaul hearing

      Netanyahu’s government considers diplomat’s presence in Israeli court an ‘interference’ in its domestic affairs

      Steffen Seibert, Germany’s ambassador to Israel
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      German economy
      German companies must cut exposure to China, warns Bundesbank

      Central bank says operations susceptible to trade disruption as foreign minister backs Brussels’ electric vehicle probe

      Containers piled up in the harbor in Hamburg, Germany
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      EU trade
      Germany leads EU condemnation of Ukraine trade curbs

      Berlin accuses Poland, Hungary and Slovakia of ‘part-time solidarity’ with Kyiv over grain import bans

      Grain producers protest against the decision of the Bulgarian parliament to drop the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      European banks
      German banker with links to Scholz charged in €280mn tax fraud

      Co-owner of private bank MM Warburg is on trial for his part in the cum-ex dividend scandal

      Former MM Warburg chair Christian Olearius, centre, arrives at court in Bonn on Monday
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      EU business regulation
      Germany pushes to exempt SMEs from green reporting rules

      Berlin seeks to shield some of its smaller companies from EU sustainability obligations

      Women in blue coats working at a bench
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Shipping
      Smaller boats help Rhine shipowners overcome mounting problem of drought

      Family businesses turn to nimbler vessels that can operate when water levels are low

    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      German economy
      Gloom spreads through German manufacturing

      Disruptions compound longer-term structural problems including labour shortages and a lack of investment

      Machine tool maker Heller’s headquarters in Nürtingen
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      EU immigration
      Germany suspends voluntary deal to take in migrants arriving in Italy

      Berlin says Rome is not meeting its obligations under the EU’s Dublin asylum rules

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      IPO within Arm’s reach

      BP’s chief executive Bernard Looney resigns

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Berlin considers stake in Thyssenkrupp marine unit to accelerate spin-off

      Scale of orders poses challenge to interested private equity groups

      The two men stand in front of a large image of a submarine under water, alongside a Thyssenkrupp logo
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Renk plans Frankfurt listing to fund overseas growth

      Specialist in tank gear boxes has benefited from growing insecurity

      A Leopard 2 tank during a Nato exercise in Lithuania
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Constanze Stelzenmüller
      How a regional poll turned into a debate about Germany’s past and future

      An antisemitism scandal has derailed Christian Democrat hopes for forthcoming elections

      Hubert Aiwanger smiles and holds his hands aloft with a hooded peregrine falcon sitting on his right hand
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      German economy
      German builders warn of crisis as they scrap record number of projects

      Proportion of construction groups reporting a lack of new orders surged to 44.2% in August

      A construction worker in Berlin
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      German politics
      Top German defence official vows to speed up procurement in response to Ukraine war

      Annette Lehnigk-Emden says agency is pushing back against bureaucracy as part of security overhaul by Berlin

      Annette Lehnigk-Emden in Koblenz last month
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Climate change
      Germany passes watered-down ‘boiler ban’ law after months of infighting

      Bundestag approves amended version of plan following public backlash and bruising political row

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