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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, followed by German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck, leave following a press conference on the 2025 budget, in Berlin, Friday, July 5, 2024. The coalition parties have agreed on a draft budget. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German government averts crisis with budget agreement for Europe’s largest economy

By Stephen Graham - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German government plans to allow asylum-seekers to work sooner and punish smugglers harder

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser briefs the media after the cabinet meeting of the German government in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser bans neo-Nazi group "Hammerskins Germany". Police search at least 28 flats in 10 federal states since this morning. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany bans neo-Nazi group with links to U.S., conducts raids in 10 German states

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, talks to Defence Minister Boris Pistorius during the cabinet meeting of the German Government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Germany is unveiling in Berlin its first comprehensive national security strategy as part of an effort to address what it views as growing military, economic and social threats to the country. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and four of his top ministers are due to present the new strategy Wednesday, which has been months in the making. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

German government presents 1st national security strategy to address growing threats

By Frank Jordans and Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Workers are seen in Ninh Binh Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant to supply electricity, in Ninh Binh Province in Vietnam, on Sept. 19, 2007. The German said Wednesday, June 7, 2023, that it is concerned by the recent detention of a prominent environmental campaigner in Vietnam, warning that a recent multi-billion-dollar deal to help the country phase out coal use requires the involvement of civil society activists. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

Germany alarmed by detention of Vietnam climate activist, warns on coal phase-out pact with Hanoi

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

The leaves of a growing cannabis or hemp plant stand in a box at the Cannabis Museum in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The German government on Wednesday presented scaled-back plans to liberalize the country's rules on cannabis, which would decriminalize possessing and growing limited amounts of the substance and allow its sale for recreational purposes to members of nonprofit 'cannabis clubs.' (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany scales back cannabis liberalization after EU talks

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands with German army Bundeswehr soldiers at a "Leopard 2" main battle tank during a training and instruction exercise in Ostenholz, Germany, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Scholz is expected to announce Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, that his government will approve supplying German-made battle tanks to Ukraine. (Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via AP, File)

After U.S. offer, Germany unleashes Leopard tanks for Ukraine

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A Leopard 2 tank is pictured during a demonstration event held for the media by the German Bundeswehr in Munster near Hannover, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Germany faces mounting pressure to supply battle tanks to Kyiv and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is airing frustration about not obtaining enough weaponry as Western allies confer on how best to support Ukraine nearly 11 months into Russia’s invasion. Germany’s new defense minister welcomed U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Berlin, declaring that German weapons systems delivered so far have proven their worth and that aid will continue in the future. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) **FILE**

Foreign minister: Germany ‘would not stand in the way’ if Poland wants to send tanks to Ukraine

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Climate activist Lina Schinkoethe, left, and her mother Solvig Schinkoethe, second from left, sit with their hands glued to the ground during a protest with the group Uprising of the Last Generation in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. The group claims the world has only a few years left to turn the wheel around and avoid catastrophic levels of global warming. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German climate activists aim to stir friction with blockades

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A local man sits in front of an apartment building damaged from heavy fighting as he waits for the kettle to boil in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live Updates | Explosions in Ukrainian city of Kherson

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The Kremlin Wall, the Spasskaya Tower, Red Square, the GUM department store, the St. Basil's Cathedral and the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge are decorated for Christmas and the New Year festivities in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia expels 2 German diplomats in quid pro quo move

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The lights of a bridge are reflected in the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. In background are the buildings of the banking district. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

German government cuts 2021 economic growth forecast to 3%

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Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group; Police raid homes

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Court overturns ruling that Germany must press US on drones

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, pool)

Germany sees slightly better tax income, more business aid

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Rights activists slam EU plan for access to encrypted chats

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms at the time behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. Germany has agreed to provide more than a half-billion euros to aid Holocaust survivors struggling under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Wednesday. (AP Photo/CAF pap, file)

Germany to give $662 million in aid to Holocaust survivors

By David Rising - Associated Press

This handout photo published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, posing for a photo in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted the picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says he's breathing on his own. He posted on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: &quot;Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still can't do much, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day.&quot; (Navalny instagram via AP)

German government calls Navalny recovery ‘encouraging’

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Germany to issue ‘green bonds’ worth up to $13B this year

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German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, left, state secretary at the economic ministry Ulrich Nussbaum, right, attend a news conference with investor Dietmar Hopp, on the screen left, and CureVac CEO Franz-Werner Haas, on the screen right, at the economy ministry about the in Berlin, Monday, June 15, 2020. The German government is taking a 23 percent stake in the German company working on a potential vaccine for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

Germany to take stake in company working on virus vaccine

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press