MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Only a small minority of German companies are confident about the coming year, despite slightly better economic prospects, according to a survey published on Monday. The Munich-based ifo institute said that just under 15% of companies expect their situation to improve in 2026. A sizeable majority, 59%, do not expect any…
LEIPZIG (CONVERSEER) – Tatjana Haenni has been appointed RB Leipzig CEO, making her the first woman to hold such a position at a German Bundesliga football club. Haenni, 59, will start on January 1 in the position that had been vacant since Oliver Mintzlaff’s departure three years ago. She will head RB Leipzig’s management board…
MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The National Football League (NFL) will return to Munich for regular season games in 2026 and 2028 which means that Germany will have a game every year until 2029. Munich’s Allianz Arena, the home of football top club Bayern Munich, previously hosted NFL American football matches in 2022 and 2024. This…
HAMBURG (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The Flightright legal services company that represents passenger compensation claims is not allowed to disparage Irish budget carrier Ryanair, a German court has ruled. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg prohibited the online company from claiming, among other things, that the airline was trampling on consumer rights, it said on Friday….
By Christian Ebner, dpa BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – A total of 6.3 million people in Germany worked for low wages at the point of calculation this year, earning a maximum hourly wage of €14.32 ($16.69), the Federal Statistical Office reported on Friday. The statistics are based on the month of April 2025, when salary averages…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The chief executive of chemical giant BASF sees no signs of deindustrialisation in Germany despite the country’s ongoing economic difficulties. “Industry in Germany will not disappear,” Markus Kamieth told the Handelsblatt business newspaper in an interview published on Friday. “We are an economic area with a high proportion of industry in…
MAINZ (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Danny da Costa’s comical own goal gave Borussia Mönchengladbach the three points in a 1-0 Bundesliga win at Mainz on Friday. Gladbach thought they had broken the deadlock in the 17th minute as Maxim Leitsch fired against his own target, but the goal was ruled out due to a handball in the…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – German lawmakers gave the green light on Friday for the introduction of a new voluntary military service, agreed amid much debate as a consequence of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. From January 1, the bill provides for young men to undergo medical examinations and be registered on a list, while active…
DORTMUND (DPA, CONVERSEER) – It stands 45 metres tall, is made up of around 1,200 Norway spruces and is, according to the administration of the western German city of Dortmund, the largest Christmas tree of its kind in the world. On Monday evening, Dortmund’s massive traditional Christmas tree was ceremoniously lit. The colossus of Norway…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – German employers’ representatives are demanding that the government’s controversial pension reform package be modified, piling further pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz as he seeks to hold his coalition together. Rainer Dulger, president of the Confederation of German Employers’ Association (BDA), told the Employers’ Day summit in Berlin on Tuesday that “Cabinet…
