With European Union economies in freefall, the EU is planning a major stimulus package. A source has told SPIEGEL ONLINE that it will amount to a massive €130 billion. Germany, though, isn't likely to approve.

The match is billed as a friendly, but the classic clash between two soccer-obsessed nations Wednesday is no laughing matter for die-hard fans. Police in Berlin are on alert for the Germany-England football match.

About 4,600 years ago in Germany’s fertile farm country a group of ...

On Thursday the official news came that Germany has gone into a recession. The goverment is scrambling to revive the economy with a stimulus package, but most German newspapers on Friday remain unimpressed.

A new offer from German power company RWE allows consumers for the first time to select a zero-carbon energy scheme fueled mostly by nuclear sources. But as Germany erupts in anti-nuclear protests, the company may be courting a backlash.

Germany's lower house of parliament has approved a hotly debated law vastly expanding the surveillance capabilities of the federal police. Opponents lambaste the measure as an effort to create a "super police" -- and look forward to their day before the Constitutional Court.

Most knew it was coming. But on Thursday, Germany's Federal Statistical Office announced that the German economy is now in recession. The numbers for the third quarter were even worse than expected.

Germany's grand coalition seems to be in an almost permanent state of paralysis on a range of issues, from tax policy to the domestic deployment of the army. Elections are almost a year away but many media commentators are already looking forward to the government's demise.

More than a million liters of alcoholic drinks were sent to troops based at German camps in Afghanistan last year. Opposition politicians in Germany have voiced alarm at the amount of alcohol being consumed by Bundeswehr soldiers.

In a series of raids, French law-enforcement officials have arrested at least 10 people suspected of being involved in weekend attacks on the French railway system. Investigators are looking into possible links to the left-wing scene in Germany.