Miranda Murray

Emails from a trove of hacked Alternative for Germany (AfD) accounts appear to contradict the far-right party leader Alice Weidel's previous statements about an illegal campaign donation, ​Der Spiegel news outlet reported on Friday.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday welcomed Germany's backing for the US automaker's driver-assistance software ‌system, as he seeks Europe-wide approval for the technology that traffic-safety researchers have warned carries inflated safety claims.

German Chancellor ​Friedrich Merz warned that extremism was entering the country's legislatures on Wednesday after a member of ‌the far-right Alternative for Germany was elected president of the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt.

The far-right Alternative for Germany convened for the first sitting of the ​Saxony-Anhalt state parliament on Tuesday but, a month after its landmark election win, the party still lacks a clear path to ‌forming what would be its first state government.

Germany's manufacturing sector sustained its upturn in September as production levels and new ​orders once again registered strong growth despite ‌renewed inflationary pressures stemming from the global energy markets, a business survey showed on Thursday.

The German government intends to block the sale of logistics firm Zippel to Chinese state-owned group Cosco over security concerns, the Handelsblatt ​newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing a government memo.

Germany coach Juergen Klopp's remarks were widely seen as a rebuke to the far right after the Alternative for Germany won an election this month.

Germany's Uniper on Monday said it had agreed ​to sell its 20% stake ‌in gas pipeline Opal, one of Europe's largest transmission corridors, bringing ​it closer to completing asset ​disposals demanded by Brussels in ⁠exchange for approving the utility's ​state bailout in 2022.

The AfD is appealing to lawmakers from Merz's conservatives to support ‌its bid to rule the eastern state, in what would be the first time a far-right party takes power at state level in postwar Germany.

Alternative for Germany's Ulrich Siegmund is the most likely next leader of the eastern state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt after a historic election win.