The withdrawal of US troops from Germany would result in thousands of job losses in the regions affected, should President Donald Trump carry out his threat to remove 5,000 US military personnel from the country, according to a study published on Wednesday. The study by the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the…
By Jörn Petring and Johannes Neudecker, dpa German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche was forced to attempt a difficult balancing act during talks in Beijing on Wednesday, trying to shore up new opportunities for German businesses while trying to push China on reliable access to its critical raw materials and fair competition conditions. Reiche’s two-day visit…
Around 5,000 ultra-wealthy individuals own more than a quarter of Germany’s financial assets, according to a study published on Wednesday by consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The number of people in Germany with assets exceeding $100 million rose by about 1,100 in 2025 from a year earlier, the Global Wealth Report found. Together, they…
By Helen Hoffmann and Janet Binder, dpa Daniela Klette, a former member of Germany’s radical leftist Red Army Faction (RAF), was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a German court on Wednesday for a series of armed robberies committed during 30 years on the run. The regional court in Verden found Klette guilty of…
A man suspected of spying for Russia since May 2025 “at the latest” has been detained in Berlin, German prosecutors said on Wednesday. The Kazakh man was in contact with the Russian secret services, the federal prosecutors said. The man passed on details about Germany’s military support for Ukraine and about the German arms and…
