The Italian police rolled up a terror cell that was in contact with the perpetrator of the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin, Anis Amri. The police arrested five suspects in Rome and nearby Latina.
The former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont remains stuck. That's what the court in Neumünster decided, a prosecutor said.
The German Minister of Justice has provided for stricter supervision of companies such as Facebook. SPD member Katarina Barley sat around the table with top employees of the company because of the scandal around data researcher Cambridge Analytica.
Germany rejects four Russian diplomats. With this, the Federal Republic rejects the assassination attempt with a poison in England against a Russian ex-spy, Sergei Skripal, and supports Great Britain in the conflict.
The Belgian lawyer of the Catalan politician Carles Puigdemont thinks that his client will be released under certain conditions in the short term. Puigdemont would then be able to freely await the handling of the international arrest warrant issued against him, lawyer Paul Bekaert told the Belga news agency.
The newfound parliamentarians of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) insult and denounce that it is a sweet lust. They call CDU chancellor Angela Merkel a 'whore' and a 'dictator', and they place her face on toilet photos.
Germany is considering stopping EU billions of flows to Poland. If the Warsaw in the cross breaks the independent rule of law in its own country, then Berlin thinks about cutting back the very generous support. That is what minister Heiko Maas of Foreign Affairs said yesterday to this newspaper.
The German Minister of Justice calls managers of Facebook on the mat. Katarina Barley wants the tech company to give a text and explanation about the alleged abuse of user data.
British Secretary of State Boris Johnson has been poisoned with hatred and anger. That said the Russian spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Wednesday, adding that she finds it frightening that he represents a nuclear power.
Angela Merkel congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin in writing with his re-election. 'Today it is more important than ever to continue the dialogue and to promote the good relationship between our countries and the people', the German Chancellor wrote according to her advisor in her letter.
The new airport in Berlin, which should have been completed seven years ago, can be better demolished and rebuilt. This is what Lufthansa driver Thorsten Dirks said according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine.
Fighting left and right again at the German book fair. In Leipzig, where nearly three thousand publishing houses sell one hundred thousand books in the Messe halls, today it once again came to grime and shouting, pushing and pulling. Half a year ago it came to the world's largest book fair, the Frankfurter Buchmesse, even to disturbances between radical right-wing intellectuals, their supporters and hundreds of left-wing activists.
For the time being, the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland is only hoping to hermetically seal the German external borders. The delegates of the Bundestag voted by a large majority on Friday (544 against 84) the bill for extended border controls.
Angela Merkel has been chosen as the Chancellor for the fourth time. The 63-year-old Christian Democrat received 364 of the 688 votes cast in the Bundestag.
France and Germany have sharply condemned the attack on the former double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. This happened after telephone conversations between the British Minister Boris Johnson and his counterparts in the two EU countries.
Turkey wants Germany to do more to prevent attacks on mosques in Germany. Ankara had the German ambassador to show him a protest letter, according to German media Tuesday.
While President Donald Trump is threatening a real trade war, and punitive measures for the German steel industry and Daimler \u0026 amp; Co announces, Angela Merkel wipes away all the dangers. Tomorrow she will be sworn in as a chancellor for the fourth time in the Bundestag, yesterday she defended her coalition agreement with the left-wing SPD.
The man known as the 'accountant of Auschwitz \u0026 # x27; died at the age of 96. In 2015, he was one of the last people convicted of the Nazi genocide of Jews during the Second World War.
Almost half a year after the elections of the German Bundestag, the government parties sealed the new big coalition (GroKo) under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). The leaders of the CDU and SPD put their signature on Monday in Berlin under the government program agreed at the beginning of February.
In principle, the German newspaper Bild does not place its own images of topless women anymore. In recent months, the images of these scantily clad women are 'increasingly seen as offensive or denigrating by editors and readers,' the newspaper said Monday.
Angela Merkel has her new government team around. The three government parties present many new faces. Yesterday the SPD introduced its ministers, including newcomer Olaf Scholz as vice chancellor and boss of the influential Ministry of Finance. Heiko Maas will become the new Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In Berlin, yesterday, the leaders of the new government were presented. But in the meantime it is bubbling under the surface, in the German province. There the protest against Chancellor Merkel and her ministers is organized by right-wing activists.
Deputy SPD leader Olaf Scholz and Andrea Nahles, the intended new chairman of the German Social Democrats, presented their ministerial team for the big coalition cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday.
It will certainly take until 2020 before toll charges for foreign motorists are introduced on German roads. German media report that on the night from Thursday to Friday.
A group of German representatives of the extreme right AfD has visited the Assad regime in Damascus. Making the salonfähig of the bloody mass murderer causes violent reactions to our eastern neighbors.
The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel will not get a place in a new government. Gabriel, politician of the Social Democratic SPD, has announced this through social media.
The German police have solved a 26-year-old infanticide with the arrest of a 65-year-old man in Berlin. The arrested truck driver, according to German media, now knows that in August 1991 he killed the then ten-year-old Stephanie Drews at Weimar.
A German top official has proposed to make the German anthem gender neutral. Kristin Rose-Möhring wants to replace 'Vaterland' with 'Heimatland, or' Homeland '.
The German Social Democratic SPD can continue with Angela Merkel. The majority of the party members who have cast their vote gave the green light to a new coalition government with the Christian Democratic CDU / CSU. German media report this just before the official announcement by the SPD.
