The post-mortems are underway in Germany, with reports four players ducked the chance to take a penalty in the nation’s time of need.

The four-time World Cup winners were knocked out on penalties by Paraguay in the round of 32, to suffer another embarrassing exit

Germany were on the wrong side of a historic upset in the Round of 32 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and Joshua Kimmich sounded off.

Last week moods improved when the parties agreed that reforms to Germany’s pension system, proposed by a state-backed commission, should be implemented in full. But the topics on Wednesday’s agenda, especially how to fund tax cuts for low earners,

From 1954 to 2014, Germany never finished outside the top eight. Since 2018, its World Cup standard has collapsed.

Another World Cup, another early exit. Germany should be getting used to disappointment, but it doesn’t make it any less painful for a traditional soccer heavyweight that had been tentatively hoping for a fifth World Cup title to restore lost pride.

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, has warned that extremist movements on both the far right and far left are expanding, with younger people becoming a particular concern as political tensions grow around protests,

Since 2014, Germany’s decline has extended far beyond football and into the arenas of economics, politics and global status.