Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

German Eonomy Minister Robert Habeck says he hopes to become his Green Party’s candidate for chancellor in the coming election.

Germany's government says its economy is on track to shrink for a second consecutive year.

Germany's vice chancellor says the country plans to enable underground carbon storage at offshore sites, pushing ahead with a much-discussed technology in an acknowledgement that time is running out to combat climate change.

The German economy is still failing to grow.

Intel and the German government have signed a deal that will see the U.S. company spend more than 30 billion euros ($32.8 billion) to build a chip manufacturing site in the eastern city of Magdeburg, after Germany pledged to cover a third of the investment required.

Germany welcomed a deal Friday among European Union countries to increase by more than a third the bloc’s renewable energy target for 2030.

German officials say that an array of climate measures being introduced by the government will bring the country closer but not all the way toward meeting its national goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Germany’s government is facing a major test after two junior partners in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition sparred publicly over a key element in the country’s ambitious climate policy.

Germany’s energy minister has announced plans to ease bureaucratic hurdles for solar power as the country set a new record for photovoltaic installations during the first quarter.

The German government has doubled its growth forecast this year for the Europe’s largest economy after the country made it through the winter without major energy problems.

Germany’s Viessmann Group is selling its heat pump business, viewed as a key technology in making heating more climate-friendly, to Florida-based Carrier Global Corp. as part of a 12 billion-euro ($13.2 billion) deal.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine’s Western allies have sent the country 65 billion euros ($70 billion) in military aid to help thwart Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Olympic gold medalist Wladimir Klitschko has joined Ukraine’s fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at the 2024 Paris Summer Games.

The economic outlook has brightened in Europe's largest economy.

Germany likely missed its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions last year, despite a massive effort by the new government to expand the use of renewable energy.

Germany has marked the completion of port facilities for the first of five planned liquefied natural gas terminals it is scrambling to put in place as it replaces the Russian pipeline gas that once accounted for more than half of its supplies.

German lawmakers have approved a plan to keep the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants until mid-April.

The German government has blocked the sale of a chip factory to a Swedish subsidiary of a Chinese company.

Senior members of Germany’s environmentalist Greens party have indicated that they would accept Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision to extend the lifetime of the country’s three remaining nuclear plants for a few months.

The German government has slashed its growth forecast for this year and predicted that Europe’s biggest economy would shrink in 2023 as Germany deals with the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine including Moscow cutting off natural gas supplies.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg says it would be “a mistake” for Germany to switch off its nuclear power plants if that means burning more planet-heating coal.

Energy ministers from the 27 European Union countries have agreed to adopt a set of measures aimed at mitigating the impact of the energy crisis.

Germany plans to spend up to 200 billion euros helping consumers and businesses cope with the surge in energy prices.

Germany’s foreign minister is putting pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to decide soon whether to supply Ukraine with advanced tanks as it seeks to reclaim more of its captured territory from Russia.

Prices for gasoline and public transport in Germany have surged as government subsidies expired, hurting commuters already struggling with energy costs.

Germany is considering backtracking on plans for consumers to pay a surcharge on natural gas amid mounting criticism that the money could flow to highly profitable energy companies.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Cabinet has approved legislation that ensures protective measures against the coronavirus pandemic are continued during the fall and winter when more virus cases are expected.

Russia’s Gazprom says it would further reduce natural gas flows through a major pipeline to Europe to 20% of capacity, citing equipment repairs.

A major natural gas pipeline from Russia to western Europe has shut down for maintenance amid concerns that Russia may not resume the flow of gas as scheduled.

Germany has activated the second phase of its three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies, saying the country faces a “crisis” and warning that storage targets for the winter are at risk due to dwindling deliveries from Russia.

The German government says it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries about a cut in Russia’s gas supplies.

Russia’s Gazprom has announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline for the second day in a row.

The German government has unveiled a bill to resolve a long-running dispute between federal authorities and the country’s 16 states over where to build land-based wind power plants.

German lawmakers have approved a $107-billion special fund to strengthen the country’s military.

Poland is calling on its European Union partners to impose sweeping sanctions on Russia’s oil and natural gas sectors over the war in Ukraine.

Germany says it’s making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and expects to be fully independent of Russian crude oil imports by late summer.

The German government has presented a major package of reforms to boost the construction of renewable power as part of its efforts to meet its climate goals and become independent of energy imports from hostile nations such as Russia.

Poland has announced steps to end all Russian oil imports by year's end as Germany issued a warning over natural gas supplies.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is spotlighting the Biden administration’s determination to strip Russian oligarchs of their wealth in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Germany’s vice chancellor is traveling to Washington for talks with U.S. officials that will focus on energy security and the need to ramp up renewable energy in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

Germany’s vice chancellor says Russia’s attack on Ukraine will cause western nations to stop buying Russian coal, oil and gas.

The German government has cut its growth forecast for this year.

Germany’s new climate minister says the country faces a “gigantic” task if it wants to achieve its goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring sufficient energy for its energy-hungry industry.

Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain part of the bloc’s path to a climate-friendly future came under immediate criticism over the weekend.

Germany’s new government says it is extending the country’s current incentive payments for buyers of electric and hybrid cars by a year.

A three-party deal to form a new German government under center-left leader Olaf Scholz has cleared its final hurdle.

Germany’s would-be governing parties are vowing to modernize Europe’s biggest economy and step up efforts against climate change.

A leader of the Greens say the multiparty talks on forming a new German government have “a long way to go” and will have to bridge significant policy differences.

Germany’s environmentalist Greens say they want to hold negotiations on a new governing coalition under the leadership of outgoing Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats which narrowly won the country’s election.

The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks to bridge their differences and declared that they got off to a good start.

Germany’s newly elected lawmakers are holding their first meetings as their parties digest the fallout of the election that reduced outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc to its worst-ever result.

Germany’s foreign minister has rejected the idea of delivering weapons to Ukraine after the country’s president indicated that he would like military help from Berlin.

Germany’s environmentalist Greens have chosen co-leader Annalena Baerbock to make the party’s first bid for the chancellery in the country’s September election.

A senior party official says Germany’s environmentalist Greens will decide on April 19 which of their two co-leaders will make the party’s first run for the chancellery in a national election in September.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's party CDU is considering how to respond to historically bad state election results six months before a national vote that will determine who succeeds Germany's long-time leader. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)BERLIN – Two German state election defeats have jolted Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc, shining a spotlight on chances of it being ejected from the government in September's national vote. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union was handily defeated Sunday by two popular state governors: the Green party’s Winfried Kretschmann in Baden-Wuerttemberg and the center-left Social Democrats’ Malu Dreyer in Rhineland-Palatinate. So far, the Union bloc of Merkel's CDU and Bavaria's Christian Social Union leads polls by a distance from the Greens and Social Democrats, despite softening support. The elections gave some comfort to the Social Democrats, currently the junior partners in Merkel's government, who have been struggling with dismal federal poll ratings.