The European Central Bank is cutting its key interest rate, a step to boost an economy that’s struggling to grow as consumers burned by inflation warily eye price tags and businesses try to chart a course amid political turmoil in leading economies France and Germany.

The German government slashed its gross domestic product expectations Wednesday, saying it was now forecasting just 0.3% growth in 2025.

France, Germany and 10 other European Union countries want the European Commission to use its powers under the Digital Services Act to protect the integrity of European elections from foreign interference,

Wind power generation in Germany - Europe's largest wind producer - is on track to record its longest stretch of below-normal production since early 2021 due to a spell of low wind speeds since October.

Germany introduced new “emergency” controls in September ... Austria has had one version or another in place since Europe’s migrant crisis that same year. Yet motorists driving from Brussels to Lille, or from Prague to Linz, are very unlikely ...

Silence, stigma, shame, high costs and an odyssey of legal conditions await women seeking to end their pregnancy in Germany. Abortion is illegal here and exempt from punishment only under specific conditions,

He is a close ally of conservative U.S. President Donald Trump and has, much to the ire of Scholz, spent the past few weeks boosting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of a national snap election on Feb. 23. The AfD is currently riding high in polls ahead of the vote.

Electric vehicle sales in Europe will accelerate in 2025 mainly thanks to a German recovery, but EU mandated targets for 2030 look hopelessly optimistic.

Tens of thousands of Germans protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party.

Germany's government has slashed its 2025 growth forecast for the country's economy, Europe's biggest, to just 0.3% after it shrank for two consecutive years.

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).

Europe’s economy stagnated late last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output.