Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday discussed U.S. President Donald Trump's role in negotiations to achieve peace in Kyiv's three-year-old war with Russia.

DHL unveiled plans on Thursday to cut about 8,000 jobs in Germany this year as part of a strategy to save more than 1 billion euros ($1.08 billion) by 2027, after the logistics group reported a 7% fall in annual operating profit.

Union Berlin’s week went from bad to worse Sunday with a 1-0 loss at home to last-placed Holstein Kiel in the Bundesliga. Armin Gigović scored before the break for the visitors, finishing off a counterattack started by team captain Timo Becker and involving Japan forward Shuto Machino.

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s constitutional restriction on borrowing, enabling 1 trillion euros ($1.08 trillion) or more in new borrowing and spending on defense and infrastructure.

German postal voting slips shown in online videos to have omitted the far-right candidate in a Leipzig constituency are fake, according to Germany's election authority, the Saxony state police and Leipzig city authorities.