BERLIN – Just in time for Richard Wagner’s bicentennial this month, a controversy has erupted over a new production of Tannhäuser in Düsseldorf because of violent depictions of a Nazi ... Read more
BERLIN – France’s finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, warned on Tuesday against caricatures and misunderstandings over Germany’s handling of the euro crisis, but quickly qualified his ... Read more
German authorities on Monday arrested a 93-year-old former Nazi soldier, saying that they had “compelling evidence” that he had worked as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp and was ... Read more
MUNICH — The trial of the surviving member of a neo-Nazi trio accused of a string of anti-immigrant killings opened on Monday in a Munich court amid a renewed debate about racism in Germany’s ... Read more
MUNICH — The struggling junior partner in Germany’s coalition government tried over the weekend to overcome its image as a bickering party lacking in leadership and solid policies at a party ... Read more
BERLIN — Even as the United States economy displays unanticipated resilience, with a healthy jobs report released on Friday, the outlook for Europe’s economy grows ever dimmer. As it does, the ... Read more
BERLIN — Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, said Thursday that it planned to hire 70 software developers at a new cloud-computing center in Germany as it tried to consolidate its position ... Read more
BERLIN — BMW said Thursday that first-quarter earnings in its critical automotive division fell more than expected, as heavy discounts in core European markets and technology costs curbed profits from ... Read more
BERLIN — When the city authorities asked the Jewish Museum here to propose a name for the cobblestone square outside its new education center, museum officials promptly suggested that of Moses Mendelssohn. ... Read more
FRANKFURT — No company symbolizes German industrial might like Daimler, the giant maker of Mercedes-Benz autos and trucks. So when the company said this week that it, too, had finally been caught in the ... Read more