The country is facing a second year of zero growth, with industry leaders gloomy and worried about potential tariffs from President-elect Donald Trump.

Last Wednesday, Olaf Scholz’s German government became perhaps the first indirect victim of Donald Trump’s election win. It’s not that the American president-elect targeted the coalition — the result of a 2021 deal between Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD),

German third-quarter growth was downgraded Friday with official data showing it expanded even more weakly than previously thought, in a new blow for Europe's top economy as it battles multiple

This year, Germany has only narrowly avoided a recession, defined by two consecutive quarters of shrinkage. The German economy has faced a decline in industrial orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine.