Tesla’s European Sales Drop in January After Elon Musk Disrupts Politics

Tesla’s sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January, the month when Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive and a close adviser to President Trump, chided Germans for focusing too…

Trump Wants to Know Why U.S. Cars Are Rare in Germany. Here Are a Few Reasons.

It is a question that vexed President Trump eight years ago and has re-emerged as a reason behind his threat to impose tariffs on the European Union: Why don’t Europeans…

Horst Köhler, Former German President and I.M.F. Leader, Dies at 81

Horst Köhler, who became Germany’s president after being a financial engineer behind the reunification of Germany and the creation several decades later of the euro currency, died on Saturday. He…

German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses

The man who has been heavily favored to become Germany’s next chancellor took an extraordinary gamble this week, both for his political future and his country’s longstanding firewall against political…

Deutsche Bank (DBK) Q4 2024 earnings

Deutsche Bank offices in the City of London on July 2, 2024, in London, U.K.  Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images Germany’s largest lender Deutsche Bank on Thursday…

How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics

They are ripe for disruption. Well before Mr. Musk first backed the AfD, it had become the second most-popular party in Germany. The Social Democrats, the country’s oldest party which…

Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’

Elon Musk told a gathering of the hard-right Alternative for Germany party this weekend that the country has “too much of a focus on past guilt,” an apparent effort to…

Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’

Elon Musk told a gathering of the hard-right Alternative for Germany party this weekend that the country has “too much of a focus on past guilt,” an apparent effort to…

‘Firewall’ Around the Far Right Wobbles in Germany

The man who is favored to be Germany’s next chancellor has opened the door to working with the Alternative for Germany to pass tough new immigration restrictions, potentially breaking a…

Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right

At the start of his second term President Trump has positioned himself at the crest of a global wave of hard-line conservative populism, offering fuel and inspiration to surging nationalist…