In Germany there has been a fuss about a campaign for wearing bicycle helmets. The campaign uses a poster with scantily clad men and women wearing a bicycle helmets and the text: 'Behold...
The East German secret service, the feared Staatssicherheit, is suspected of possible involvement in the Lockerbie air disaster. On December 21, 1988, an American Pan-Am jumbo jet crashed...
After many years of huge tax windfalls of tens of billions of euros, Germany is getting ready to tighten the belt. According to treasury keeper Olaf Scholz, however, there is...
After many years of huge tax windfalls of tens of billions of euros, Germany is getting ready to tighten the belt. According to Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, however,...
A drunk passenger managed to work with a fire extinguisher in the cabin of the train driver of a train in Germany on Sunday. The man wanted Deutsche's high-speed line...
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.…
The American investment bank Goldman Sachs recently announced that its bankers no longer need to appear in suits at work. In Germany, the Frankfurter Sparkasse bank is now investigating how...
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.
Angela Merkel (64) is increasingly handing over the reins to CDU chief Annegret Kramp Karrenbauer aka AKK. It is even unclear whether the 'Wir schaffen das' chancellor, maligned for her migration...
Asylum seekers in Germany will probably receive a little more pocket money from next year. Minister Hubertus Heil of Employment is preparing a law in which the monthly contribution for...
The Group Chairman of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, is going to talk to the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to try to prevent a break in the partnership of...
Germany's former foreign minister Klaus Kinkel passed away. He was 82 years old. Kinkel was foreign minister in the government of Chancellor from 1992 to 1998...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined the students who demonstrate weekly for a better climate during school hours. With that she deviates from most politicians,...
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...
Germany is finding it increasingly difficult to exhaust asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal remedies. In the past four years, in half of the cases it failed to expel migrants.
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.
Germany will no longer surrender any nationals to Britain after the brexit. Whether the British leave the European Union with a hard or soft Brexit does not make any difference to the German decision...
The German government wants to prohibit controversial therapies that would 'cure' people of homosexuality. 'Homosexuality is not a disease and therefore there is no therapy against it...
The German minister of Internal Affairs Horst Seehofer wants stricter action against asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal remedies and who have committed a crime and leave...
Russia has more cruise missiles of a new type than known so far. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes this on the basis of a source of information.
Islamic State is as good as expelled from Syria, but certainly not defeated. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for example, reacts to a remark by US President Donald Trump.
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.
The police arrested three Iraqi refugees who wanted to commit an attack in Germany. They had already collected gunpowder from flares and would have ordered an ignition in Groot...
The German government does not want to know anything about a speed limit on the Autobahn. That is what a spokesman of Chancellor Angela Merkel says in response to increasing actions from the environmental movement.
Germany must have ceased power generation from coal in 2038. A committee set up by the German government agreed on Saturday morning. It is now…
The European chief negotiator for the Brexit considers it unachievable to give the so-called 'backstop' a limited term. According to Michel Barnier, the guarantee scheme must be indefinitely...
The German who would have distributed personal information from politicians and others may not have acted alone. He has made a confession, but during interrogation he has detectives...
