https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany's exports ticked up in January on robust trade with China, but trade with another key trade partner, Great Britain, plummeted after the Britain left the EU. https://www.thelocal.de/20210309/trade-has-collapsed-germany-business-with-uk-slumps-after-brexit Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:22:30 +0100 trade-has-collapsed-germany-business-with-uk-slumps-after-brexit Weapons exports from German factories have decreased for the third consecutive year. Behind the continued trend has been a shift in the attitude of the German government. https://www.thelocal.de/20190423/german-arms-exports-continue-to-fall-amid-changing-attitudes Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:55:20 +0200 german-arms-exports-continue-to-fall-amid-changing-attitudes Export power Germany has long had a troubled relationship with selling arms abroad, a legacy of its dark history that is now spelling deep discord with its European allies. https://www.thelocal.de/20190222/history-weighs-heavy-as-germany-mulls-arms-exports Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:50:29 +0100 history-weighs-heavy-as-germany-mulls-arms-exports A German court Thursday fined gunmaker Heckler & Koch €3.7 million and gave suspended jail terms to two of its ex-employees for illegally exporting thousands of rifles to violence-torn Mexican states. https://www.thelocal.de/20190221/german-gunmaker-convicted-for-illegal-arms-exports-to-mexico Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:27:29 +0100 german-gunmaker-convicted-for-illegal-arms-exports-to-mexico In a bid to protect its pork industry, Denmark began building a fence on Monday along its border with Germany to keep out wild boar infected with the African swine fever virus. https://www.thelocal.de/20190128/denmark-raises-fence-on-german-border-to-prevent-swine-fever Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:13:33 +0100 denmark-raises-fence-on-german-border-to-prevent-swine-fever The German government told Washington it had the wrong address, after the US administration tried to enter talks with Germany on trade. https://www.thelocal.de/20170307/germany-rebuffs-us-attempt-to-start-trade-talks-saying-speak-to-eu Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:38:55 +0100 germany-rebuffs-us-attempt-to-start-trade-talks-saying-speak-to-eu Berlin's arms sales compared to the rest of the world have fallen off sharply over the last five years, despite the global arms trade reaching a quarter-century high. https://www.thelocal.de/20170220/german-weapons-sales-drop-by-third-bucking-global-trend Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:06:17 +0100 german-weapons-sales-drop-by-third-bucking-global-trend Germany's latest record trade surplus announced on Thursday may be a point of pride for some, but experts warn the imbalance is doing more harm than good as grumbling grows in the Trump White House. https://www.thelocal.de/20170209/germanys-record-trade-surplus-set-to-fuel-us-friction-with-trump Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:25:59 +0100 germanys-record-trade-surplus-set-to-fuel-us-friction-with-trump According to a respected economic think tank, Germany broke its own trade surplus record in 2016 - in stark contrast to the USA, which is running a huge deficit. https://www.thelocal.de/20170130/germany-overtakes-china-as-worlds-richest-exporter Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:55:33 +0100 germany-overtakes-china-as-worlds-richest-exporter The government has come in for criticism after new figures revealed that Germany exported ten times the quantity of small arms ammunition in the first half of 2016 as in the same period last year. https://www.thelocal.de/20161025/german-small-arms-ammunition-exports-grow-ten-fold Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:16:12 +0200 german-small-arms-ammunition-exports-grow-ten-fold Over the weekend, reports emerged that German weapons exports doubled in 2015. Figures seen by Die Welt show they have increased again in 2016. https://www.thelocal.de/20160705/after-record-year-weapons-sales-rise-again Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:08:01 +0200 after-record-year-weapons-sales-rise-again The economy minister Sigmar Gabriel on Monday defended his goal to reduce German arms exports despite the industry nearly doubling its business in 2015. https://www.thelocal.de/20160704/gabriel-defends-arms-exports-increase Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:16:10 +0200 gabriel-defends-arms-exports-increase The United States overtook France to become Germany's most important trading partner last year for the first time since the mid-1970s, official data showed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160302/us-overtakes-france-as-germanys-biggest-customer Wed, 02 Mar 2016 17:56:55 +0100 us-overtakes-france-as-germanys-biggest-customer Look at the government tax report for 2015 and you could be excused for thinking Germany can be confident about the immediate future. https://www.thelocal.de/20160223/heres-why-german-bosses-are-worried-for-the-future Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:08:37 +0100 heres-why-german-bosses-are-worried-for-the-future Worries about slowing growth in China and the ensuing global stock market turmoil are souring investor sentiment in Germany at the start of the new year, a leading survey showed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160119/china-troubles-spook-german-investor-confidence Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:02:50 +0100 china-troubles-spook-german-investor-confidence Germany's Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel warned Saudi Arabia on Monday Berlin could review military exports to the oil-rich nation in light of Riyadh's mass executions of prisoners two days earlier. https://www.thelocal.de/20160104/germany-warns-saudi-arabia-it-may-review-military-exports Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:06:57 +0100 germany-warns-saudi-arabia-it-may-review-military-exports Germany is still on course for another record year of exports in 2015 despite a drop of 5.2 percent in August compared with the previous month, the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151008/exports-still-at-record-high-after-august-hiccup Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:15:02 +0200 exports-still-at-record-high-after-august-hiccup Germany's exports and imports rose to new monthly records in July, official data showed on Tuesday, underlining the robustness of Europe's top economy in the current stormy global economic seas. https://www.thelocal.de/20150908/german-trade-booming-as-surplus-record-is-smashed Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:43:07 +0200 german-trade-booming-as-surplus-record-is-smashed The German economy, Europe's biggest, expanded surprisingly strongly in the fourth quarter of 2014, driven primarily by robust consumer spending, official data showed on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150213/economy-shows-surprising-boost-in-q4 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:26:59 +0100 economy-shows-surprising-boost-in-q4 Trade with the United Kingdom and other EU partners played a big role in Germany's record exports, which totalled €1.134 trillion in 2014, the Federal Statistics Agency (Destatis) said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150209/2014-record-year-for-exports-destatis-germany-trade Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:54:53 +0100 2014-record-year-for-exports-destatis-germany-trade