Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a heavy lift: shake Europe’s economic engine out of stagnation. Markets are cautiously optimistic.

Wolfsburg, as it is now known, is the headquarters of Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest carmaker, whose plummeting profits and grim outlook are a microcosm of Germany’s storm of converging troubles.

Night - Cloudy with a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds from NNE to NE at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 35 °F (1.7 °C). Cloudy with a high of 44 °F (6.7 °C). Winds ...

Olaf Scholz could be forgiven for frowning as he posed for photos with Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend. The German chancellor’s visit to Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, the Prime Minister’s ...

Friedrich — a 15-time world champion, with nine two-man golds and four two-man golds on his resume along with two more Olympic golds in both disciplines — was going to be the leader anyway. His ...

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, explores the impact of the now-lapsed Storm Babet as it traveled across the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Lithuania. The solar ...