BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc has drawn level with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the first time in months in a new survey conducted by the INSA research institute. If a federal election were held this Sunday, 26% of respondents said they would vote for Merz’s Christian Democratic…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Germany is expelling a Russian embassy staffer over links to a woman arrested on suspicion of spying for Moscow, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Thursday. It comes after authorities in Berlin arrested a woman on Wednesday suspected of spying for a Russian intelligence agency and passing on information related to…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The German economy is likely to grow only slightly in the first quarter of the year, the country’s central bank predicted in its monthly report for January on Thursday. Germany narrowly avoided a third consecutive year of recession in 2025, with preliminary figures from the Federal Statistical Office showing gross domestic…
By dpa correspondents DAVOS (DPA, CONVERSEER) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday issued a wake-up call to his European allies, urging them to quickly adjust to the fact that the old world order is “unravelling at breathtaking pace.”Merz addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, only hours after a major U-turn on Greenland…
(DPA, CONVERSEER) – The United States should respect international law and territorial sovereignty, and as such, Greenland’s future should be decided by Greenland and Denmark, German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said on Sunday. “It is solely for Denmark and Greenland to decide Greenland’s future,” Kingbeil, who also heads the Social Democratic Party (SPD),…
By Thomas Kolbe (CONVERSEER) – As of January 1, imports into the EU are now subject to the comprehensive CO2 certification regime. Brussels is closing existing gaps in its protectionist extraction scheme. At the same time, the European Commission has established another autonomous revenue source. For aficionados of the lean state and free markets, 2025…
