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China's surge in green vehicle exports and tightened export controls disrupted European industry, prompting EU officials to consider tougher investment and tech-transfer measures, EU sources said.

Germany announced it would allow retirees who continued working to earn up to €2,000 a month tax-free to boost labour supply and revive economic growth, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.

NATO moved to prioritize air and space defence after Russian drone incursions, while German start-ups signed Bundeswehr deals and planned domestic production, analysts said.

Police found a child's body in a forest near Güstrow and said it was likely the missing eight-year-old Fabian, with investigators saying they suspected foul play.

As guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Philippines used the platform to confront its dictatorial past and promote its diverse literature, organizers and writers said.

Thyssenkrupp planned to list its warship unit TKMS on the Frankfurt stock exchange on Oct. 20, selling a minority stake while retaining control.

Torhüterin Ann‑Katrin Berger fiel wegen einer Knieverletzung für das Nations-League-Halbfinale gegen Frankreich aus, während Kapitänin Giulia Gwinn und Lena Oberdorf in den DFB-Kader zurückkehrten.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, publishers and booksellers warned the German book trade was strained as shop numbers hit a record low, reprint shortages emerged and Börsenverein demanded AI rules.

Union and SPD called off a Berlin press conference today after SPD lawmakers opposed a proposed lottery to decide who would be conscripted under a Wehrdienst reform.
Germany's consumer prices rose 2.4% in September, driven chiefly by higher services and food costs while energy prices fell, preliminary figures showed.

Rouven Schröder left RB Salzburg to become Borussia Mönchengladbach's new sporting director, charged with resolving the club's coaching situation as his first priority.

Hamburg decided to spend nearly €600 million to rescue the half-finished Elbtower by buying roughly half the building to house a natural history museum.

Eighteen young CDU and CSU MPs sought to block the federal government's pension package in the Bundestag, risking the bill losing a parliamentary majority and facing delay.

Audi removed Renate Vachenauer, its only female board member and head of procurement, from the automaker’s Ingolstadt management board, with her successor not yet named.

Das Bundeskartellamt hat die Übernahme von CureVac durch BioNTech erlaubt und sah keinen erheblichen Anstieg von Marktmacht auf dem deutschen Pharmamarkt.
Germany beat Northern Ireland 1-0 in Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifier, but international press praised effort while criticizing the team’s lack of ideas.

German shipping companies expected continued growth despite a weak domestic economy, a PwC survey showed, citing resilience amid tariffs, weak production and full ships.

Pro‑Russian hackers struck Germany’s federal public procurement portal, rendering it offline for days in apparent retaliation for Patriot missile deliveries to Ukraine, according to reports.

After Germany's win in Northern Ireland, Julian Nagelsmann said the team had no goalkeeper problem; critics said it remained reliant on set pieces eight months before the World Cup.

Vodafone replaced Huawei equipment at several thousand German mobile base stations with Samsung OpenRAN technology to reduce reliance on a single supplier.
