German exports will shrink next year for the first time since the global financial crisis over a decade ago, the DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce said on Wednesday, as Continue Reading
Water levels along the Rhine river, a key waterway for transporting commodities and other products from coastal areas to inland locations in France, Germany and Switzerland, fell to their lowest Continue Reading
Volkswagen is entering the growing car sharing sector with the launch of WeShare in Berlin today. With 1,500 e-Golf vehicles, the Volkswagen brand is bringing onto the roads a 100% Continue Reading
Two major public transport orders this week from regional transport authorities in Germany showed how they are going beyond federal targets to decarbonize bus and train fleets. City state Berlin Continue Reading
Germany’s economy ministry on Monday said there are no considerations for the time being to release oil from strategic reserves as a problem with contamination continued to halt shipments on Continue Reading
Europe’s largest economy is going through a monumental change due to the energy transition or ‘Energiewende’ as it’s called in Germany. Over the years significant amounts of private sector money Continue Reading
The 71-year-old resigned soon after the scandal erupted in September 2015 The former chief executive of the carmaker Volkswagen has been charged in Germany over his involvement in the company’s Continue Reading
SPREMBERG, Germany (Reuters) – A German far-right party is using a simple message to attract voters in a mining region threatened by government plans to phase out coal: jobs are Continue Reading
It’s not often that corporate executives make confessions that could jeopardize both its corporate standing and perhaps even their jobs. Yet, last week a top Volkswagen group executive said that Continue Reading
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier received on Wednesday the symbolic ‘last piece of black coal,’ marking the end of Germany’s two centuries of hard black coal production, while the country struggles Continue Reading
