The German police have, in their own words, dismantled all tree huts of activists in the so-called forest near Hambach. Energy company RWE is now making further preparations for the controversial mining of lignite in the forest.
The police in Berlin suspect a colleague of having spied on members of the Turkish opposition in the German capital for the Turkish secret service. The corps started an investigation against the man, as was announced on Thursday.
While agents seal all manhole covers around the prestigious Hotel Adlon, most Berliners approve the three-day state visit by Turkish President Erdogan, which starts Thursday, frankly: 'That self-proclaimed sultan Erdogan is not welcome.'
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov is fired from a hospital in Berlin. He was treated there to poisoning symptoms, but his health has improved considerably. The activist has stated in the newspaper Bild the suspicion that the Russian secret service has poisoned him.
A man in a vest with cables and wires threatened the security service at Berlin-Schönefeld airport on Tuesday morning.
The German Chancellor Merkel has put on the fines yesterday. She admitted in a rare moment of self-criticism that she had dropped at the riot around her spy chief. 'I have not thought enough about what really moves people.'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not go to the state banquet that German president Steinmeier is offering his Turkish counterpart Erdogan. Erdogan dines Friday evening during his state visit to Germany at Steinmeier in the Bellevue Palace, where the German head of state resides.
The former head of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, becomes a special adviser at the Ministry of the Interior. His salary remains unchanged. That said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) after a coalition meeting on Sunday evening in Berlin.
The chief of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, who had to leave following controversial statements about disturbances in Chemnitz, does not become a state secretary. This apparently has an important point of conflict between CDU, CSU and SPD. The German news agency DPA has heard about this in coalition circles.
At dawn, the workers painted yesterday morning the 'hero portrait' of the recently wounded Mafioos Nidal R., under the protection of the Berlin police. The removed graffiti on the crowded Tempelhofer Feld, directly on the crime scene, was a blow in the face of the authorities.
In the run-up to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Germany, opponents of the head of state have planned a series of demonstrations. The organizers have announced protests in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Essen, Bremen, Hannover, Stuttgart and Bielefeld for Saturday afternoon.
The boss of the German intelligence service had to pick up his bags last night. Hans-Georg Maassen lost the confidence of the Merkel government. But instead of sending him out, the spy boss has been promoted to a much better paid job as Secretary of State.
The chief of the German intelligence service Hans-Georg Maassen has to resign after his controversial statements about disturbances in Chemnitz where migrants had to pay for it. The German government announced on Tuesday that Maassen will resign and will work as Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior.
The department of the right-wing populist AfD in the German state of Lower Saxony says three members are on guard because they had attended a meeting of neo-Nazis. A spokesman for the AfD said Tuesday that the party is starting a procedure to get rid of the three.
The sick Piot Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week, has most likely been poisoned with a substance that affects the nervous system. A doctor from a hospital in Berlin, where Verzilov now resides, has announced on Tuesday.
Bas Eickhout, GroenLinks' delegation leader in the European Parliament, is throwing the presidency of the European Commission. He is a candidate to succeed the current boss Jean-Claude Juncker on behalf of the European Green Parties (EGP).
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week with poisoning symptoms, was admitted to a hospital in Berlin. According to another member of Pussy Riot, it is better with Verzilov.
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week with poisoning symptoms, is likely to be flown to Berlin. Veronika Nikoelsjina, a friend of Verzilov, said Saturday that it is the intention that the medical treatment of Verzilov in the German capital will be continued.
The German internal security service BfV wants to expand considerably. Sources at the Ministry of the Interior told the magazine Der Spiegel that the top of the security service is aiming for almost a doubling of the number of employees. 3100 people now work at the service. That should be 6000 in 2021.
Germany has suffered more than EUR 43 billion in damage over the past two years due to cyber attacks. Companies became victims of sabotage, data theft and espionage. That certainly happened to seven out of ten companies, and in another two out of ten companies that suspicion exists.
The social democratic coalition partner of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the head of the internal security service BfV to resign. 'For the party management of the SPD it is crystal clear: Maassen has to leave', said party secretary Lars Klingbeil. He called Merkel to intervene.
The German Roman Catholic Church has had the abuse under clergy themselves mapped. Thousands of alleged abuse cases emerged from the confidential investigation, according to news article Der Spiegel.
The Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, in principle questions the claim of boat refugees for asylum and protection in the EU. 'If you ask me, these are economic migrants- all illegal. Young men who do not go to war for war ', says Babis in an interview with the German newspaper Bild.
A well-being game between the German secret service and chancellor Angela Merkel puts the government coalition under pressure. Spies-chef Hans-Georg Maassen is under attack, as is Minister Seehofer of the Interior (CSU), Merkel's main opponent (CDU). The SPD as the third government party is worried.
The head of the German internal security service (BfV) doubts whether right-wing demonstrations in Chemnitz have been a hunt for foreigners. According to Hans Georg Maassen, there is no taxable evidence that such manhunts have taken place. He says that Friday in the German newspaper Bild.
For the eavesdropping and spying on a political party there are numerous objections due to German history. But Thursday the secret service in Thuringia decided to keep the strongly grown 'Alternative für Deutschland', now in the polls the second party of the country, because of 'danger to democracy' in the smooses.
The international community wants to spend more than 1.7 billion euros extra for aid to the crisis area around Lake Chad. During a donor conference in Berlin, the needy population of one of the poorest regions in the world was pledged about three times as much as a year ago at a similar meeting in Oslo.
The best, the biggest and the fastest. These are the goals that the Chinese Huawei has in mind and it is well on the way to reach them. At the electronics fair IFA in Berlin, CEO Richard Yu introduced the Kirin 980, the most advanced 'brain' of a smartphone ever.
The European Commission wants to get rid of the system of summer and winter time. This Friday the committee is going to make a proposal to abolish the six-monthly resistance of the clock, chairman Jean-Claude Juncker announced in an interview with the German channel ZDF.
Germany has given Namibia the physical remains of 27 people who were killed in the colonial period. Robbed parts of the body were then taken from the African country to be used in so-called 'race studies'.
