Jörg Kukies, Germany's finance minister, discusses his country's economy and upcoming elections at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

To make the German economy great again, the country will need time. A decline that spanned more than a decade cannot be turned around in a few months. The February elections will be crucial for the fate of the economy. It simply cannot afford further stagnation.

The German economy has shrunk for two years in a row, will stagnate in 2025, and hardly grow thereafter. Faced with deep-seated structural challenges, Europe’s powerhouse is in an economic existential crisis.

Before the election, we asked JD Vance what could be done to improve the economy and bring down inflation. Here’s what he told us.

One of the most important lessons about Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory is that, in foresight, it was predictable long before election day.

Presidential elections are a big deal. They reinforce the policies of the current administration or bring in a completely different management team.

Auto industry jobs have long been the lifeblood of the German town of Luedenscheid but now, a trade union official says, the sector’s woes have sparked fears it will turn into an “open-air industrial museum”.

An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.

Rebecca Jones asks economist James McIntyre from Bloomberg Economics, what this all means for Australia in the year ahead. Rebecca Jones is the managing editor of Bloomberg News for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

U.S. stock indexes are rallying toward the close of their best week in two months. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% Friday.

BERLIN — The German economy, Europe's biggest, shrank for the second consecutive year in 2024, according to preliminary official figures released Wednesday weeks before an election in which the economy is the top issue.

The uncomfortable truth for the chancellor and her party is, five months after their election victory, the economy was the same size as it was in July.