The German government expects Europe’s biggest economy to emerge from three years of stagnation in 2026, but a heavy reliance on state spending shows fostering a broader-based recovery remains a work in progress.
Gross domestic product is seen expanding by 1% this year. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
The German government expects Europe’s biggest economy to emerge from three years of stagnation in 2026, but a heavy reliance on state spending shows fostering a broader-based recovery remains a work in progress.
Gross domestic product is seen expanding by 1% this year. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil reiterated a call for smaller groups of European Union members to forge ahead with reforms to make the 27-nation bloc more competitive in an increasingly ruthless global environment.
European Finance Ministers are discussing using the bloc’s anti-coercion trade instrument and other economic countermeasures following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs over the Greenland dispute.
Danish Economic Affairs Minister Stephanie Lose in Brussels, on Jan. 20.
European Finance Ministers are discussing using the bloc’s anti-coercion trade instrument and other economic countermeasures following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs over the Greenland dispute.
Danish Economic Affairs Minister Stephanie Lose in Brussels, on Jan. 20.
European Finance Ministers are discussing using the bloc’s anti-coercion trade instrument and other economic countermeasures following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs over the Greenland dispute.
Danish Economic Affairs Minister Stephanie Lose in Brussels, on Jan. 20.
US President Donald Trump reached a red line with his threat to hit NATO allies with additional tariffs for opposing his bid to annex Greenland, Germany’s finance chief said as he urged Europe to prepare its strongest trade countermeasure in response.
Europe’s far-right parties are reassessing their ties to President Donald Trump after he used military force to oust Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and threatened to annex Greenland.
Buildings on the coastline overlooking Disko Bay in Ilulissat, Greenland, on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. Greenland’s government said it will intensify efforts to ensure the island’s defenses are managed within the NATO military alliance, pushing back on renewed threats from the US about taking over the territory.
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said Donald Trump’s political course risks backfiring and urged Europe not to take his pressure on the Federal Reserve as a model for dealing with central banks.
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil urged European nations to get tough if they’re to successfully negotiate the current period of global upheaval and avoid becoming “pawns of the major powers.”
Lars Klingbeil Photographer: Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said Donald Trump’s political course risks backfiring and urged Europe not to take his pressure on the Federal Reserve as a model for dealing with central banks.
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil urged European nations to get tough if they’re to successfully negotiate the current period of global upheaval and avoid becoming “pawns of the major powers.”
Lars Klingbeil Photographer: Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg
Senior members of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s cabinet traveled to Washington this week to try to work out what the real motives are behind US President Donald Trump’s threats to take control of Greenland.
Marco Rubio, right, and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in Washington, DC, on Jan. 12. Photographer: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations, along with officials from other countries, met Monday in Washington to discuss a path forward to “address vulnerabilities in critical minerals supply chains,” the Treasury department said in a statement.
A rare earth mine in Jiangxi province, China. Source: Chinatopix /AP Photo
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said rifts between the US and Europe are widening and warned that the region must not close its eyes to the shift in relations.
Lars Klingbeil in Washington. Photographer: picture alliance/picture alliance
Germany is open to taking “joint action” with international partners to bolster supply chains and ensure access to materials critical to manufacturing, Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said before departing for a two-day visit to the US.
Germany is open to taking “joint action” with international partners to bolster supply chains and ensure access to materials critical to manufacturing, Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said before departing for a two-day visit to the US.
Germany is open to taking “joint action” with international partners to bolster supply chains and ensure access to materials critical to manufacturing, Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said before departing for a two-day visit to the US.
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