Some 58% of respondents said they would rather or strongly support such talks, a survey conducted by the YouGov institute on behalf of dpa found. Just 26% opposed the idea.
The company’s German locations will be most heavily affected by the cuts, with a couple hundred jobs to go at its semiconductor plant in Regensburg, chief executive Aldo Kamper said.
Within the space of two years, 101 industrial sites in Europe had closed, 25 million tons of chemical capacity had left Europe, and more than 75,000 people had lost their jobs, Ratcliffe said.
Seven employees of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have been denied access to the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, in Berlin for security reasons.
Germany’s anti-trust authority on Thursday ordered Amazon to pay around around €59 million ($69.6 million) for imposing unlawful pricing requirements on third-party sellers. (…)
Shareholders are to be paid a dividend of €1 per share, around one and a half times as much as in the previous year. The bank also announced further share buybacks
“Sondervermögen,” meaning special fund, has been picked as Germany’s Worst Word of 2025 for its “misleading” use, especially by the government in Berlin last year.
Dobrindt said Germany would for the first time join the leadership at the US-led Office of the Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (OSC) in Jerusalem.
The study by the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) found that 21% of respondents reported thinking about emigration. Among Germans without a migration background, the share was 17%. Those who themselves immigrated to Germany were twice as likely to consider leaving (34%).
German online fashion retailer Zalando is set to close a logistics hub in the eastern city of Erfurt at the end of September, where 2,700 are currently employed, the company said on Thursday.
German farmers were demonstrating against the agreement known as the Mercosur trade deal at motorway junctions across the country, while some 20 tractors were blocking access roads in Paris on Thursday morning, causing traffic disruptions.
Deutsche Bahn’s punctuality rate was 62.5% in 2024, and 74.4% in 2015. Germany’s rail operator counts a train as late if it is delayed by six minutes or more.
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), which says it is Europe’s largest association of hackers, and other organizations have launched a call for a monthly Digital Independence Day, urging people to rethink their reliance on the dominant digital platforms.
Germany’s foreign intelligence service is to be given far more scope for taking decisive action in threatening situations under plans of the office of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to media reports on Thursday.
The proposals would allow sabotage operations to weaken hostile forces, according to public broadcasters WDR and NDR as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, citing a new draft law on the country’s Federal Intelligence Service BND.
Smaller production lines and those with low capacity utilization are to be relocated from the company’s Bavarian headquarters in Stein and from a second site in Geroldsgrün to Brazil and Peru, the company announced.
German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche said on Monday that the government has approved the takeover of specialty plastics manufacturer Covestro by UAE’s state-owned energy company ADNOC.
“In this federal government, we are no longer pursuing climate policy against industry. We are pursuing it with industry,” Merz said at a meeting of his conservative bloc’s youth wing in the south-western German town of Rust on Saturday.
Only 51.5% of long-distance trains were on time last month, Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, and state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn later confirmed the figures to dpa.