To many on the outside, Germany looks like a big, rich country enjoying the benefits of being Europe’s largest economy. Inside, Germans know that looks can be deceiving. As in any nation, parts of ...

Chief Executive of the Joint overall association "Paritatischer Gesamtverband" Ulrich Schneider holds up the report on poverty trends during the Federal Press Conference under the motto "Poverty in ...

Almost one in six people, some 15.4 percent of the German population, were registered poor in terms of income in 2014. This is the conclusion of the poverty report of the Paritätischen Gesamtverbands ...

Over 90 percent of Jewish pensioners live below the poverty line, according to the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany. While one in five German pensioners lives below the poverty line, that ...

What began as a daring endeavor to bring Germans more renewable energy and wean the country off nuclear energy by 2022 has turned German energy into a luxury good. The project began in 2000 with the ...

The recent “reform plans” of Ursula von der Leyen (conservative Christian Democratic Union), Germany’s federal minister for labour and social welfare, are supposed to prevent poverty among the elderly ...

The German government tabled a final report on Wednesday (27 August) addressing "legal issues and challenges” related to social benefits claims by EU immigrants, with Bavarian conservatives welcoming ...

BERLIN (AFP) - The German government on Wednesday published a report on poverty in Europe's top economy amid claims by the opposition and in the media that it had spruced up the real picture.

If you want to know what child poverty looks like in Germany, do not go onto the streets; go into homes, into living rooms and talk to people like the Thiel family. Twelve-year-old Jasmin Thiel and ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US downturn news every morning. More than 10m Germans could fall into poverty by 2020 because of insufficient economic growth, McKinsey, ...

BERLIN -- A German government study shows poverty is rising in Europe's largest economy, fueling political pressure for tax cuts and minimum wages. Roughly one in eight, or 13% of German residents ...

After five years since the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), North Korea has resumed foreign tourism, and a well-known German influencer visiting North Korea for the first time has ...