German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, the warhorse of the debt crisis, attends his final meeting of Eurozone ministers on Monday as variously the most loathed or loved figures in EU politics.
With Germany raking in more taxes due to strong economic performance, the leader of its liberal party has suggested state officials are enriching themselves at the cost of the taxpayer.
Update: A Greek far-left group on Thursday claimed it sent a parcel bomb to the German finance ministry, over six years after waging a similar campaign against European officials.
The Greek debt crisis is back on the agenda again. With Athens needing yet more money to pay off its huge loans, Germany is once again being accused of prolonging the Hellenic tragedy.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said during the World Economic Forum on Friday that his first reaction to the UK voting to leave the EU was a very tearful one.
Germany's influential and veteran Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is deeply pro-European but unbending on the need to stick to commitments and seems at the end of his tether with debt-wracked Greece.
Germany collected 7.3 percent more in tax in November 2014 than the same month last year thanks to the strengthening economy, the Finance Ministry said in its monthly report on Thursday, while pollsters found rising consumer confidence.
Germany wants to promote structural economic, financial market and tax reform when it takes over the presidency of the G7 club of rich nations next week, German media reported on Sunday.
Germany plans to expand a credit scheme for small and medium enterprises from crisis-hit Spain to also cover Portugal and Italy, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was quoted as saying Sunday.
As Germany and France clash over how to move Europe's economy forward, the French Finance Minister told Germany's counterpart, Wolfgang Schäuble, that committing to fiscal discipline must not stall growth.
Of all things the German government could be short of, tax collectors is not the one most people would expect - yet it is struggling to fill 1,000 specialist jobs after a system overhaul left it responsible for gathering car tax.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has appealed to CDU supporters not to vote for the newly-formed eurosceptic Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in September’s federal elections.
Germany's finance minister said on Thursday he would welcome the state setting up a “tax FBI” in order to make it more difficult for people to stash money abroad in tax havens.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said he believes the embattled eurozone is already past the peak of its three-year-long debt crisis, citing positive developments in Greece and France.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said Friday he considered his Dutch counterpart Jeroen Dijsselbloem as a good possible candidate to take over as head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers.
The German Finance Ministry on Tuesday revealed exactly how many banks are on its official list of financial institutions considered "relevant to the national system" - though their names remain a closely guarded secret.
Germany and the Jewish Claims Conference signed a new accord Thursday to help elderly Holocaust survivors who had never received compensation, most of them living in eastern Europe.
The German government finalized the 2012 budget on Friday - using what the opposition called "tricks" which they claimed Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble "would never accept in Greece."
The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Sunday threw his weight behind a German scheme to allow the EU to intervene in countries' budgets and propose changes before they are agreed in parliaments.
Germany's finance minister Friday kept up the pressure on Greece to continue its reforms, as eurozone ministers prepared for a series of crucial meetings next week on the future of the crisis-hit country.
Germany's finance minister said Friday there is "no alternative" to cutting debt in European countries, the day after the IMF chief called for Greece to be given more time to pare its deficit.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is planning a deal with the Singapore government to provide information on wealthy Germans hording money in the Asian haven.
Angela Merkel welcomed on Friday the conditions imposed by the European Central Bank under its new bond-buying programme aimed at solving the euro crisis, saying governments also had work to do.
