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Germany's Labour Paradox - 370,000 Skilled Workers Missing

Berlin Searches Asia, Africa and Latin America for Talent

By EuroAsia.News · 3 November 2026 · 11:37 · 6 min read

Germany Bets on the Middle Corridor - Europe Builds a Trade Route Around Russia

A railway terminal in Kazakhstan or Azerbaijan rarely makes headlines in Berlin.

By EuroAsia.News · 10 October 2026 · 09:52 · 3 min read

Germany’s Democratic Paradox - If Voters Choose the "Wrong" Party, Should the Party Be Banned?

Germany's September elections have delivered an uncomfortable message to Berlin.

By EuroAsia.News · 29 September 2026 · 08:51 · 4 min read

• Germany
• Elections
• AfD
• Politics
• EU

Germany’s Recovery Nobody Feels -Companies Turn Optimistic as Consumers Pull Back

Germany is producing one of the strangest economic signals in Europe: companies are becoming more confident while households are becoming markedly more pessimistic.

By EuroAsia.News · 26 September 2026 · 17:10 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Economy

Germany Votes Against Merz — He Calls It a ‘Disaster’ but Refuses to Go.

Germany woke on Monday to a political landscape that looks very different from the one Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised to create. In Sunday’s state elections, his Christian Democratic Union suffered another historic rejection by voters.

By EuroAsia.News · 21 September 2026 · 11:12 · 3 min read

• Germany
• Elections
• Merz
• AfD
• Politics
• EU

CDU at 7% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — How Did Germany’s Largest Centre-Right Party Fall This Far?

Friedrich Merz’s CDU is facing a result that would have been almost unimaginable only a few years ago: around 6–7% of the vote.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 September 2026 · 19:02 · 3 min read

• Germany
• Election
• Merz

Germany Votes Sunday. Does Merz Survive Monday?

Germany votes on Sunday in two regional elections that have suddenly become something much larger than contests over Berlin housing or the government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. They have become a test for Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 September 2026 · 00:00 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Merz
• Elections

Merz’s €555 Billion Budget Opens a Rebellion on His Own Benches

Friedrich Merz entered office promising economic reform, fiscal seriousness and a break with the paralysis of Germany’s previous government. His 2027 budget is now exposing how difficult those promises are to reconcile.

By EuroAsia.News · 15 September 2026 · 00:00 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Merz
• Macron

Russia Lost Europe — But Is Building a Bigger Gas Market in Asia

For half a century, Russian gas flowed west. Germany, Italy, Austria and much of Central Europe became connected to Siberian gas fields through an enormous pipeline network, while Gazprom built one of the world's most profitable energy-export businesses.

By EuroAsia.News · 14 September 2026 · 00:00 · 3 min read

• EU
• Economy
• Gas
• Energy
• Russia

Germany’s Industrial Model Was Built on Cheap Energy — Can It Survive Without Russian Gas?

For decades, Germany’s industrial strength rested on a powerful combination: engineering excellence, skilled labour, export markets and reliable energy at internationally competitive prices. Soviet and Russian oil and pipeline gas became a major part of that model.

By EuroAsia.News · 13 September 2026 · 10:13 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Russia
• Gas
• Economy

Pressure on Merz Is Now Spreading Inside the CDU

Friedrich Merz’s political problem is no longer limited to opposition attacks or bad opinion polls. After the CDU’s disastrous defeat in Saxony-Anhalt, criticism is now moving through his own party from local branches to regional officials.

By EuroAsia.News · 8 September 2026 · 12:27 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Merz
• Elections

AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt Landslide: Merz Can No Longer Blame Anyone Else

Germany’s political establishment may describe the result as a warning, a protest vote or an eastern German anomaly. But after the AfD’s extraordinary victory in Saxony-Anhalt, Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces a more uncomfortable question: how much of this political earthquake has been produced by his own government’s priorities?

By EuroAsia.News · 7 September 2026 · 12:37 · 3 min read

• Germany
• Elections
• AfD
• Politics
• EU

Germany's 13% Chancellor - How Merz's Failed Economic Leadership Is Breaking a Nation

With an approval rating lower than any German chancellor in three decades, Friedrich Merz presides over a country in industrial freefall—where Volkswagen is closing factories, 43% of firms are fleeing overseas, and a government fixated on weapons spending has delivered neither growth nor reform, leaving 78% of citizens deeply dissatisfied and the far-right AfD surging to 28% in the polls.

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 07:21 · 2 min read

• Politics
• Economy
• Germany