Germany’s car industry buckles under EV shift and trade shocks

Nuying Huang, Taipei

Aug 30, 2025, 06:33 0

Credit: AFP

Germany's once-dominant automotive sector is facing its most profound reckoning in decades, shedding over 52,000 jobs — a 6.7% decline — in the past year alone, according to fresh data released by Destatis. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019,...

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