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Germany plans to increase government spending by 1.7 percent next year, insiders told Reuters news agency. This would bring the expenditure to 362.6 billion euros.…

Thirty years after the fall of the Wall, the Germans finally come with a fast train from Amsterdam to Berlin. After extra insistence from the Dutch Railways a few months ago, our eastern neighbors chose...

Sing along loudly with your favorite hits on Sunday afternoons: every Sunday hundreds of visitors go crazy at the weekly karaoke in the Mauerpark in Berlin. Now Berlin stops the party.

Again, a German government plane has suffered a breakdown. This time foreign minister Heiko Maas had to deal with it. He was stranded in Mali after having been in West Africa for almost a week. 'I have…

The Michelin Guide has given a star restaurant in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The culinary inspectors visited the 'ol' in Köngen in 2017 and the spring of...

There may be a connection between the attacks on the Nice boulevard and the Christmas market in Berlin. The Tunisian Bilal Ben Ammar, a friend of the terrorist Anis Amri in December 2016 with...

The Deutsche Bank summit was very worried after the US elections that The Trump Organization would default on paying $ 340 million in loans during the year.

The Greek Parliament finally agreed to the accession of Northern Macedonia to NATO. In the vote, 153 parliamentarians approved the plan and 140 voted against it. This is a...

Hikers have found a dead baby in a park in Berlin. The dead girl was found late Saturday night in a park near the Postdamer Platz.

A woman from Greece died during a flight from Athens to Zaventem. According to the Belgian public prosecutor's office, this is a 45-year-old woman who was on her way to Brussels with her husband.

The Greek Parliament has approved the deal on the name change of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. This will end the long-running conflict after decades...

More than 100,000 Greeks have taken to the streets in Athens to demonstrate against the name agreement between Greece and Macedonia. This is expected to be approved next week in the...

The camp beds are already ready at a number of German airports. Travelers at German airports have to take into account delays and canceled flights again this week. The…

Several flights were canceled on Monday at various airports in the German capital Berlin. Due to a strike at security personnel at the Tegel and Schönefeld airports at 05.00...

At the cathedral of Saint Dionysius in Athens a bomb exploded on Thursday morning. An agent and an employee of the church were injured.

The toddler of a right-wing politician in Berlin has been refused at a primary school.

The police in Berlin on Tuesday early in a mosque invaded because of terrorist suspicions.

A heavy explosion occurred at the building of the Greek television channel Skai in Athens. Presumably, left-wing extremists are behind the attack.

Government officials from Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine come together in Berlin on Monday to find a solution to the conflict over the Ukrainian ships that the Russians have seized. A German government spokesman has reported this. Shortly before, Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas had called on Russia and Ukraine to stop the quarrel.

The Public Prosecution Service in Berlin has sued a former guard (95) of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen for complicity in the murder of 36,000 prisoners and incitement to murder. This is what the German magazine Der Spiegel reports.

A 15-year-old boy was sentenced in Germany to nine years of juvenile detention for the death stabbing of a 14-year-old fellow student. The girl Keira was killed with more than twenty knife stabs in her parental home in Berlin.

In 2017, 147 women were killed by their partner or ex-boyfriend in Germany. In total, 140,000 people were victims of domestic violence last year.

Germany has imposed an entry ban on eighteen Saudi's. They are suspected of having been involved in the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist lived and worked in the US and was very critical of the Saud family clan that rules Saudi Arabia.

The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.

An 80-year-old German has slaughtered a wild boar with an ax in the parking lot of a Berlin supermarket. First the man chopped off the head of the animal. Then he began to take out the guts of the dead beast.

The long political career of Angela Dorothea Merkel (64) is slowly coming to an end. On Monday, the German CDU-cheffin told fellow party members and the equally bewildered journaille in Berlin that she stops as a powerful chairman of her own Christian party: 'There is a need for fresh wind and space for the future.'

The boss of the troubled airport that is being built at the German capital Berlin is certain that the last deadline for the opening will be met. Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) will open its doors in the autumn of 2020. ' This time we'll manage \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;, says Engelbert Lütke Daldrup in an interview in the Welt am Sonntag.

Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The Scottish Jenny Graham (38) is the first woman to cycle around the world alone in 125 days with all her luggage. She arrived in Berlin on Thursday evening at the Brandenburger Tor, where she had left in the east on 16 June.

After the heavy defeat of the CSU at the state election in Bavaria, the pressure on 69-year-old party leader Horst Seehofer has increased considerably. Two district administrations demanded the resignation of the former prime minister of Bavaria. The Oberbayern department, the largest in the German federal state, wants an extraordinary party day to be held this year.