German government ministries

Mrs Merkel's government is already planning to increase defence spending by around €5.5bn (£4.8bn) over the next four years. But the defence ministry has described that as “inadequate in view of the huge oustanding requirements and need for modernization”. Ursula von der Leyen, the German defence ...

Over the past three years, more than 9,000 Iraqis have voluntarily returned from Germany under the IOM program funded by the German government. ... The scheme, run in partnership with the Government of Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), aims to create ...

The German government decided to form a "special measures committee" to study ways of deporting a Tunisian man, who allegedly served as one of Osama ... Germany's Federal Ministry of Interior announced Thursday the formation of this committee and said it will focus primarily on receiving assurances ...

BERLIN, April 26 (Xinhua) -- German Economy Ministry has approved the takeover of German aerospace supplier Cotesa by Chinese company ... According to Germany's reformed laws on foreign trade, the government can block a company from outside the European Union from acquiring more than 25 ...

Two years ago, Seehofer blasted Merkel's 2015 decision to open Germany's borders to refugees arriving in Europe via the so-called "Balkan route" from the Middle East, saying it had produced a "rule of injustice" in Europe's most populous nation. Arriving in his Berlin ministry after being ejected from the ...

FILE In this March 7, 2018 file photo justice Minister Heiko Maas attends the cabinet meeting in Berlin. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel tweeted Thursday March 8, 2018 that he will not be a part of the next government. Later on Thursday, the German news agency dpa reported that the current ...

The ministry is one of the most important roles in the German government. It is responsible for social benefits, meaning it commands the biggest budget of all ministries — some €130 billion ($160 billion). Heil was praised by Nahles for his experience in education and labor policy — two areas that will "have ...

As it formed earlier this year, Germany's new coalition government promised to rejuvenate Europe's biggest economy and provide an impulse for the future. ... And although the coalition agreed to pass a skilled workers' immigration law, the interior ministry and the labor ministry are unable to agree on the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German defense ministry on Tuesday received bids from Airbus and the U.S. government - representing Lockheed Martin and Boeing - for the ... "As soon as Germany becomes an F-35 nation, all cooperation with France on combat jet issues will die," Hoke told the paper.

The German economy ministry on Wednesday published an optimistic set of forecasts for 2018-19, saying strong growth into next year will help create a ... Lower unemployment and better pay for workers should help reduce Germany's massive export surplus by increasing demand for goods from abroad.

It links major organs of government, including the Chancellery, ministries, the two houses of the German parliament as well as German diplomatic missions ... After the hack of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, in 2015 -- in which alleged Russian hackers from the APT28 group stole 16 gigabytes of data ...

While the CDU/CSU and SPD coalition government is a new iteration of an old coalition, the SPD will remain in charge of the foreign ministry, and Germany's current foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel (SPD), has publicly articulated his desire for rapprochement with Russia. He has been open in his support of ...