Germany's government has slashed its 2025 growth forecast for the country’s economy, Europe’s biggest, to just 0.3% after it shrank for two consecutive years.

The German government slashed its gross domestic product expectations Wednesday, saying it was now forecasting just 0.3% growth in 2025.

By Christian Kraemer and Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -German exports are expected to decline by 0.3% in 2025 due to weakening competitiveness as well as growing geopolitical and trade tensions, according to the government's annual economic report published on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - German lawmakers have approved weapons and equipment orders worth about 2.5 billion euros ($2.6 billion) for the armed forces in the last parliamentary session before the snap election, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

Germany's budget committee has called Finance Minister Joerg Kukies to approve an additional 3 billion euros ($3.13 billion) in military aid for Ukraine, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

Responding to the killing of a child, the poll-leading Christian Democrats are pushing to overhaul migration laws — possibly with votes from the Alternative for Germany.

Wind power generation in Germany - Europe's largest wind producer - is on track to record its longest stretch of below-normal production since early 2021 due to a spell of low wind speeds since October.

"Any resettlement plans, the idea that the citizens of Gaza will be expelled from there to Egypt or Jordan, is unacceptable," Scholz said, referring at a campaign event in Berlin to Trump's comments.

Germany's center-right CDU bloc is advocating for stricter immigration laws after an Afghan national, who was supposed to be deported, committed a kni

The country is focused on exports, but China is slowing imports and U.S. tariff threats are growing. Politicians are offering few alternatives.

The chairman of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center has accused Elon Musk of insulting victims of Nazism after the billionaire told a German far-right political party that the country needed to “move beyond” the “guilt” of the past.

MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid compared the Trump administration's deportation efforts and immigration policy to the Holocaust and Hitler's Germany on Monday.