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    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      EU energy
      Gazprom blames sanctions on key turbine for limiting gas flow to Europe

      Comments raise fears Russian supplies to Germany could drop to zero

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Commerzbank AG
      German gas shortage risks ‘unforeseeable consequences’, says Commerzbank

      Lender warns of ‘severe recession’ if Russia cuts off supplies

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      German retail sales fall by largest rate on record

      Decline highlights scale of challenge facing eurozone’s largest economy

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      German inflation hits 8.5% as food prices jump

      Surprise increase in eurozone’s largest economy adds to pressure on ECB to continue rate rises

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      Anglo-French merger would challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX

      Russia cuts gas deliveries to Europe via Nord Stream 1

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      German recession looms as business confidence slumps to two-year low

      Economists warn of downturn as high prices and threat of gas shortage weigh on economy

    • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
      IMF calls for rethink of German debt-cutting plan if Russia halts gas flows

      End to imports from key energy supplier would drag Europe’s largest economy into recession in 2023, says fund

    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
      Constanze Stelzenmüller
      A German gas crisis will cause jitters across Europe

      As Russia seeks to make others pay the price for its war in Ukraine, an EU-wide energy security strategy is needed

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Uniper SE
      Germany’s Uniper forced to draw on gas supplies reserved for winter emergency

      Gas is being siphoned from the company’s storage facilities after deliveries from Russia’s Gazprom came to a halt

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      Deutsche Bank AG
      Deutsche Bank turnaround plan hit by costly tech delay

      Core IT restructuring project postponed until 2023 has proved far more complex than anticipated

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Germany dims the lights to cope with Russia gas supply crunch

      Fears of winter energy crisis bring calls for shorter hot showers and cooler swimming pools

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      EU energy
      Germany draws up law to take stakes in struggling gas importers

      Berlin moves to tackle fallout from surging energy prices in wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      Germany warns of ‘historic challenge’ as trade slides into deficit

      Soaring energy prices and trading disruption push balance €1bn into the red for May

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Aerospace & Defence
      German arms companies fear for their slice of defence windfall

      Bosses warn sector’s revival threatened by bureaucracy despite Berlin’s pledge to vastly increase military budget

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      Lex
      Germany/coal: rising emissions leave politicians doubly compromised Premium content

      The country is as hopelessly and compromisingly addicted to coal as it is to Russian gas

    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      EU energy
      Germany fires up coal plants to avert gas shortage as Russia cuts supply

      Emergency move is ‘bitter but essential’ to ease threat of energy shortage, economic minister Robert Habeck says

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      News in-depthEurozone inflation
      German beer drinkers face higher prices at the bottom of the glass

      A 368-year-old Bavarian brewery has been slow to pass on soaring costs but it may soon have no choice

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      Volkswagen AG
      VW chief’s call for settlement to end war draws outrage from Kyiv

      Herbert Diess makes plea for negotiated deal to ‘open up the world again’

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      Study puts cost of halting Russian gas supply at 12% of German GDP

      Government adviser says Europe’s largest economy faces big hit if Berlin accepts Russia gas ban

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      News in-depthEurozone economy
      Eurozone’s long-stagnating wages start to rise as cost of living soars

      After a decade of little to no pay growth, workers are finally starting to see higher settlements

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Eurozone economy
      German and French factories hit by Ukraine war and China lockdowns

      Fallout from conflict and lower orders due to supply chain squeezes add to gloom hanging over European economy

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Brexit
      UK-German trade falls sharply since Brexit vote, data show

      Figures highlight gradual decoupling of British manufacturing from EU’s biggest economy

    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
      Global Economy
      Weak EU growth and Covid-hit China raise prospect of global downturn

      Ukraine war takes toll on eurozone as US economy contracts and renminbi falls

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      Bundesbank warns Russian gas embargo would cost Germany 5 per cent in lost output

      Central bank says sudden disruption of supplies to EU could trigger sharp recession this year

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      The Big Read
      ‘Worst crisis since the second world war’: Germany prepares for a Russian gas embargo

      Industry and economists say a ban would be catastrophic for the country’s economy, but many companies expect it to happen anyway

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