• Renewables

Construction begins on one of Australia’s largest wind farms

Australia must accelerate the development of renewable energy projects to meet its climate goals and avoid price increases and blackouts.

• Apr 19, 2023
• Colin Packham

• Energy

Germany draws up law to take stakes in struggling gas importers

The law, which could be passed by parliament as early as this week, would clear a path for the government to bail out Uniper, the largest importer of Russian gas into Germany.

• Jul 5, 2022
• Guy Chazan

• World politics

Will Germany’s ‘debt brake’ stop its green ambitions?

Germany’s designated next chancellor, Olaf Scholz, says green initiatives will be the ‘biggest industrial modernisation of Germany in more than 100 years’. Who will pay for it all, though, is another question.

• Nov 26, 2021
• Katrin Bennhold and Melissa Eddy

• Audit quality

Wirecard woes mount for EY as clients cut auditor

KfW, Germany's third-largest bank by assets, may drop auditor plagued by its role in accounting scandal.

• Sep 23, 2020
• Hugo Miller and Birgit Jennen

• Opinion
• Coronavirus pandemic

Change central banks' rules or face total global liquidation

The danger now is that the deepening global recession will morph into something more intractable: a deflationary depression with a wave of defaults that effectively breaks the capitalist system as we know it, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

• Updated Mar 17, 2020
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

KfW prices $750m kangaroo bonds

Updated | Germany’s KfW has priced $750 million in 10-year kangaroo bonds at 67 basis points over swap.

• Updated Mar 28, 2012
• Paulina Duran