Louis van Boxel-Woolf

BERLIN, GERMANY – APRIL 24: Interim Economy Minister Robert Habeck presents the spring 2025 German economy forecast to the media on April 24, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. The forecast predicts zero growth for 2025, down from previous forecasts, and a sinking inflation rate of 2%. Habeck attributed the economic downturn to U.S. tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on imports from the European Union. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting a global downturn in economic growth due to the tariffs. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

German economy gets yet another downgrade as government projects zero growth this year

By Louis van Boxel-Woolf and AFP

C-17A Globemaster of the 172nd Airlift squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This unit is tasked with the homebringing of wounded or fallen soldiers.

‘If they pull the plug here, we will be socially destroyed’ says the German people as they struggle to imagine life without U.S. airbase

By Léa Pernelle, Louis van Boxel-Woolf, and others

Lufthansa crew members dressed in traditional Bavarian clothes (Trachten crew) are seen during a photo shooting ahead of their flight to Osaka, at Franz Josef Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany, on September 20, 2024. During the next two weeks, Lufthansa crews fly on selected flights in traditional clothes. The world’s largest beer festival Oktoberfest opens its 189th edition on Saturday, September 21, 2024, and runs until October 6 on the Theresienwiese (Therese’s Meadow), shortened by locals to the “Wiesn”. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP) (Photo by MICHAELA STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Lufthansa cut hundreds of thousands of jobs during the pandemic. Now the group plans to add 10,000 new jobs

By Louis van Boxel-Woolf and AFP