Topic: Germany

Two leading sentiment indicators in Germany surprised on the bright side here on Tuesday, bringing a rare touch of Christmas sparkle to the pall of gloom hanging over the eurozone.The Ifo economic institute said it was bringing "good tidings" with the announcement ...

BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's top central banker said on Thursday that euro zone governments are on the right track to restore market confidence but reminded them that an emergency program to buy their bonds was "neither eternal nor infinite".Mario Draghi's comments came ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German manufacturing contracted for a third straight month in December and looked unlikely to provide a lift to Europe's largest economy soon as new orders continued to dry up, a survey showed on Thursday.The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German manufacturing contracted for a third straight month in December and looked unlikely to provide a lift to Europe's largest economy soon as new orders continued to dry up, a survey showed on Thursday.The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's economic prospects next year are so bleak that 2011, for all the euro's agonies, has every chance of being remembered fondly.In forging a fiscal compact that aims to put the single currency on a firmer long-term footing, euro ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany want a new EU framework to speed up progress towards a common corporate tax base and a financial transaction tax as well as convergence of financial regulation and labor market policies, a Franco-German letter sent on ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The leaders of France and Germany will not leave this week's EU summit until a "powerful" deal is reached to arrest the euro zone debt crisis, Paris said on Wednesday, as latest borrowing figures exposed the stressed state of ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's uncompromising stance on Europe's financial crisis faced mounting criticism on Saturday as senior political figures urged her to reconsider her rejection of eurobonds."One cannot categorically rule out resorting to eurobonds. They could become vital," European Energy Commissioner Guenther ...

Japan called on Germany on Friday to step up and help plug the widening hole in Europe's finances, saying Berlin should play a leading role in creating a debt "firewall".Finance Minister Jun Azumi said the continent's largest economy needed to do more ...

Berlin and Paris propped up the crippled eurozone with resilient growth figures Tuesday but France was buckling on tense bond markets as Italy and Greece raced to install new governments.In Rome, new Prime Minister Mario Monti won vital support from two key ...