BERLIN — On a cloudy day in mid-September, I biked across Germany’s capital to meet up with Oliver Richtberg, a representative of the VDMA, at his organization’s annual political conference. The VDMA ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is scrambling to defend German industry from the economic upheaval caused by intense rivalry from China. Momentum is building for fresh trade barriers to stop unfair trade ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -China overtook the U.S. as Germany's largest trading partner in the first eight months of 2025, regaining the top spot as higher tariffs weighed on German exports to the United ...

Xiaomi is expanding its electric vehicle line-up as it prepares to enter Europe in 2027. The company has opened an R&D centre ...

This gets to why the second China Shock in Germany could prove much more devastating than the first one proved to be in the United States. For one thing, the first China Shock centered on the imports ...