Brexit, anti-establishment populism, divisive refugee policies… these are just a few of the issues driving a wedge between countries in the European Union at the moment. However, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not one of them. In fact, the sweeping legislation governing personal data is being hailed by many as a far-reaching triumph for human rights.
Beijing’s long-term strategy, called “Made in China 2025,” is about transforming the country from the world’s factory into a technology leader. While it invests everywhere in Europe, it’s mainly eyeing Germany’s top-class technology and engineering to help it achieve its goal.
Angela Merkel certainly doesn’t have the type of flashy, adoring relationship with Vladimir Putin that her predecessor Gerhard Schröder has, but the chancellor was keen to stress the importance of the Germany-Russia relationship during her meeting with the Russian president in the resort town of Sochi today (May 18).
Once again, Vladimir Putin tried to debunk Britain’s claims that Russia used a Soviet Union-era, weapons-grade nerve agent to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
The European Commission has had enough of being ignored by what has been dubbed a “toxic bloc” of countries. It announced today (May 17) that it was taking Britain, France, Germany, as well as Italy, Romania, and Hungary to the European Court of Justice for failing to comply with air-quality limits—and repeatedly ignoring requests to tackle dangerous pollution levels in their cities.
A network of lime-green-and-orange buses has taken over Europe. Now it’s looking to conquer the US.
Catalonia’s new president Quim Torra drew the battle line with Spain today (May 15) when he declared that he is just keeping the seat warm while he prepares to put the exiled former leader of the autonomous region back into power as soon as possible.
Apple CEO Tim Cook returned to his alma mater Duke University on Sunday to deliver a commencement speech encouraging graduates to wake up to their own power to change things for the better in a “deeply divided” America.
The US’s love affair with big, gas-guzzling SUVs not only has a downside for the environment, but it’s also leading to more fatal road accidents.
At Tesla’s combative quarterly earnings call last week, CEO Elon Musk dismissed the concept of moats—the idea that a company should have some sort of competitive buffer to fend off competition—when asked why he was offering competitors access to its superchargers, saying they are “lame” and “like nice in a sort of quaint, vestigial way.”
Evolution holds that we all came from a single animal. But what was this animal like?
More than three years after Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal broke, consumers in the car maker’s home country could finally get a shot at suing the all-powerful company.
Adidas has a Kanye West-sized problem. Since the rapper told TMZ this week that 400 years of slavery in the US “sounds like a choice,” thousands of people have signed a petition demanding Adidas drop West, who designs the Yeezy limited-edition shoe line for the sportswear brand.
It’s crunch time for trade relations between the United States and Europe. May 1, International Labor Day, is going to be busy for the European Commission in Brussels, as the US’s tariffs exemption on EU steel and aluminum is set to expire at midnight eastern time in the US.
Angela Merkel won’t be showered with the pomp and praise that marked Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Washington this week—let alone with any touch-feely back rubs. The German chancellor comes armed with spreadsheets, rather than Gallic charm, and has just a couple of hours to try and head off Trump’s looming aluminum-and-steel tariffs and protect German businesses.
Germany’s Echo music awards—the equivalent to the Grammys in the US or the Brit Awards in the UK—were scrapped by the Federal Association of the Music Industry on Wednesday, in the wake of national outrage over its award for best hip-hop album on Apr. 12.
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They may have the reputation of being savers and worriers, but a survey this week from the EU Commission on Justice, Education, Employment, and Health, reveals that Germans are feeling happier about themselves than almost all other European Union citizens.
Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler, has been famously skeptical, even scathing, about electric cars in the past. But it looks like he had a change of heart, after he told Bloomberg Television that Ferrari has been testing a new gasoline-battery hybrid at its track near Maranello, Italy.
French president Emmanuel Macron finally visited Angela Merkel in Berlin today (April 19) to get things rolling on his European reform proposals.
Alexander Gauland, co-founder of far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), has preached one message since 2015: Migrants, especially those of the Islam faith, are a threat to Germany, and the country should close its borders and kick them out.
The German capital’s days as a bohemian haven of affordable living appear to be numbered.
Volkswagen is gearing up to overhaul its top management—and that includes replacing CEO Matthias Müller, according to a report in the German business daily Handelsblatt.
Germans have long had a reputation as thrifty people, committed to squirreling away money in good times and bad. But where does this reputation come from? An exhibition in Berlin, called “Savings—History of a German Virtue,” sets out to explain the story behind this national obsession.
