German politicians rebuff U.S. ambassado...

BERLIN, March 19 (Xinhua) -- German politicians on Tuesday rebuffed comments made by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador in Berlin, about Germany's planned defense spending over the next few years.G

Auction of 5G mobile frequencies starts ...

BERLIN, March 19 (Xinhua) -- With the symbolic press of the button of an old stopwatch, which was also used to kick off Germany's first auction of mobile frequencies back in 2000, the auction process

German economy weighed down by weak auto...

BERLIN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Industry, in particular weak automobile production, proved to be the main burden for Germany's sluggish economic development in the second half of 2018, according to the

News Analysis: How Germany is waking up ...

by Ushana Uthayathasan and Stephanie Wolff BERLIN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- For a long time, it looked like Germany was simply watching Tesla, Toyota and BYD take the lead in electric mobility, stubbornl

Majority of Germans thinks AKK unsuitabl...

BERLIN, March 15 (Xinhua) -- After almost 100 days as new leader of Democratic Christian Union (CDU), only 30 percent of Germans consider Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, often called AKK, suitable as nex

Former German Chancellor Schroeder criti...

Germany's former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has criticized the United States' threat to withhold intelligence over the expansion of Germany's 5G network. "This is such blatant blackmail," Schroede

Former German chancellor Schroeder criti...

BERLIN, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Germany's former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has criticized the United States' threat to withhold intelligence over the expansion of Germany's 5G network. "This is such

Merkel dismisses U.S. threat over Huawei...

BERLIN, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Following a warning letter by the U.S. ambassador in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that it "goes without saying" that the German government woul

Germany closes its airspace for Boeing 7...

FRANFKRUT, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Germany's Federal Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer told media Tuesday that "Until all doubts have been dispelled, I have ordered that the German airspace is close

Digitization Index shows "uneven" distri...

BERLIN, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Although Germany has made "considerable progress" in many areas of digitization in two years, not all federal states in Germany have profited from this development equall