DeStatis – German Recession: Production in January 2026: -1.2% on the same month a year earlier

A committee of the European Parliament has found that seven of the European Union’s own member states — including Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg — behave like tax havens. Read here

Volkswagen’s plans for a deal with Israeli arms maker Rafael to use its struggling Osnabrueck ​plant are being complicated by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, the German carmaker’s third-largest investor, three people ‌familiar with the matter told […]

Lula da Silva used his state visit to Britain to champion the interests of the Global South, urge diplomacy over militarism and condemn the persecution of Julian Assange – a sign of Brazil’s new role […]