Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephan Weil, Minister President of Lower Saxony, leaves a closed meeting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Lower Saxony.

A wind turbine project in Germany’s Lower Saxony revealed a Bronze Age jewelry hoard that may have had religious significance ...

The German state of Lower Saxony will keep its 20 percent voting stake at Volkswagen AG, shrugging off investor criticism of its special role at the scandal-hit carmaker. “We won’t change,” Lower ...

HANOVER, Germany - The likely new leader of the German state of Lower Saxony on Tuesday promised continuity in the oversight of Volkswagen after Social Democrat Stephan Weil said he would stand down ...

Leading figures from Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) called for stricter oversight of Volkswagen today in the wake of a scandal involving the carmaker and a ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s Social Democratic party has won a crucial regional election in the northern state of Lower Saxony, but ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Lower Saxony, Volkswagen's second-largest shareholder, said it will hold on to its stake in the carmaker despite one of the German state's two main parties calling for changes in ...