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  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Germany’s CDU chooses Merkelism without Merkel

    Armin Laschet’s win signals continuity but losing a longtime leader will weaken the party

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    German politics
    Armin Laschet wins CDU leadership election

    Victory keeps party on a centrist course and puts the Rhinelander in pole position to succeed Angela Merkel

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    Instant InsightTony Barber
    Merkel’s centrist legacy hangs over the new CDU leader

    Important questions remain about how the party will fight September’s Bundestag elections

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    German politics
    Merkel’s heir apparent: Armin Laschet’s rise to summit of German politics

    ‘Nearly man’ moves into pole position to succeed veteran chancellor as he takes helm of CDU

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Deutsche board member urged ex-Wirecard CEO to ‘do [the FT] in!!’

    Austrian financier Alexander Schütz called on Markus Braun to do more to rebut FT’s critical reporting

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    News in-depthGerman politics
    Shift in Europe policy likely as Germany’s CDU elects new leader

    Frontrunner Friedrich Merz strikes very different tone on EU to Angela Merkel

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Biden’s $1.9tn plan, US bank earnings, replacing Merkel

    US president-elect Joe Biden will ask Congress to spend $1.9tn on an economic rescue plan

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus: Texas becomes first US state to administer 1m vaccine doses — as it happened
  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    European prime property
    Frankfurt’s housing prices rise despite the pandemic

    As the city continues its drive to become Europe’s financial capital, property is increasingly unaffordable

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    The Big Read
    After Merkel: the battle for the soul of the Christian Democratic Union

    Under the chancellor the party turned into a well oiled election-winning machine but lost some of its identity

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Merkel adviser defends Wirecard role

    Aide grilled over recommendation that German chancellor lobby for disgraced payments company on China trip

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    International tax
    Germany seeks global corporate tax deal with Biden administration

    Finance minister Olaf Scholz wants incoming president to agree on OECD proposal

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Commerzbank warned BaFin about Wirecard in early 2020

    German lender severed some ties with the payments group after internal review

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    German economy
    Resilient data suggest Germany avoided fresh downturn in late 2020

    Industrial production, manufacturing orders, exports, employment and retail sales are all better than expected

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Inside Germany’s abattoirs: the human cost of cheap meat

    Eastern European migrants have long staffed slaughterhouses with poor pay and gruelling hours. A new law wants to change that

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    ‘Cultural background’ of Wirecard short-sellers noted by German regulator

    BaFin found it ‘striking’ that many investors betting against company were Israeli and British

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    European capitals follow UK with school closures as virus surges

    Move to remote learning likely to stir debate in US where more schools remain open

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Philip Stephens
    Emmanuel Macron’s France is a post-imperial power in search of a role

    Germany has assumed the position of European leadership it once promised its neighbour

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    Imagining Germany without Angela Merkel has got harder

    Instead of the rocklike stability of the past, its political parties are in even more flux than usual

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    InterviewFriedrich Merz
    ‘There’s nothing retro about me’ - Friedrich Merz on his bid to succeed Angela Merkel

    Candidacy to lead Germany’s CDU faces opposition from supporters of current chancellor

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    Germany toughens lockdown as it struggles to control second wave

    Unprecedented travel ban among raft of measures agreed by Merkel and leaders of 16 federal states

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    Olaf and Inge feel the heat: German weather bulletins face pressure on diversity

    Campaigners seek to highlight growing multiculturalism by naming meteorological patterns

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    The Big Read
    ‘We need a real policy for China’: Germany ponders post-Merkel shift

    The country will be key to whether Europe works more with the US to defend democracy or seeks to engage Beijing

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    EU countries in blame game over sluggish vaccine rollout

    Inoculation rates across bloc lag behind those of UK, US and Israel

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    European countries set to extend lockdowns as Covid cases surge

    Highly contagious mutations send infection rate soaring as EU comes under fire for slow vaccine rollout

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