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Germany

Merkel gets party backing to fight Germany's election

Germany's centre-right political parties have agreed to nominate Angela Merkel as their candidate to run for chancellor in the country's election in September.

06/02/2017

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Smart Fashion: What do our clothes say when they talk to us?

Smart fashion: the clothes and accessories we wear could tell us things we don't already know

06/02/2017

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Takeaway: Smart fashion

This shirt knows how much you eat Collar sensors feel when your swallow food or liquids Smart fashion can help people live healthier lives These eyeglasses also use textile sensors The sensors measure

06/02/2017

Sport

Austria's Stefan Kraft a high-flyer in Oberstdorf

Austria's Stefan Kraft seals Oberstdorf victory

04/02/2017

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Trump gets his wall

A tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany that features miniature models of various parts of the world has put up a wall around the United States, in a dig at President Donald Trump’s plan to build a f

04/02/2017

Germany

Germany's biggest ever cocaine haul seized

Customs officials in Germany have put on display the country’s biggest ever cocaine haul.

04/02/2017

Business Series

Deutsche Bank: the worst is behind us

Crisis-plagued Deutsche Bank is insisting the worse of its troubles are behind it even as it announced a Q4 loss of 1.9 billion euros.

02/02/2017

Germany

Man arrested in Germany, 'wanted' by Tunisia over Bardo attack

A Tunisian asylum-seeker arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack, is also wanted by Tunisia over links to an assault on the Bardo museum in Tunis.

01/02/2017

Business Series

Deutsche Bank fined over Russian money laundering

Deutsche Bank failed to prevent around $10 billion (9.29 billion euros) in suspicious trades out of Russia between 2011 and 2015.

31/01/2017

Germany

Schulz: "a stronger Europe means a stronger Germany"

The former president of the European Parliament has been nominated to lead Germany's centre-left Social Democrats into the country's upcoming election.

30/01/2017

Germany

Postmortems ordered for six teens found dead in Germany

The father found the bodies of his daughter, son and four others in a garden house in Bavaria.

30/01/2017

Sci-Tech

Robots start work on the farm

Smart connected farms were a hot topic at the ‘International Green Week’ in Berlin.

30/01/2017

Business Series

Toyota loses out to Volkswagen as world's top carmaker

Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota to become the world's top selling carmaker despite the German company's diesel emissions scandal.

30/01/2017

Germany

Nazi propagandist Goebbels' wartime secretary dies at 106

Brunhilde Pomsel said she knew nothing of Nazi atrocities and lived her life in obscurity until her story was unearthed in 2011.

30/01/2017

Germany

Schulz nominated as SPD candidate to take on Merkel for German Chancellor

In Germany, the centre-left SPD has chosen Martin Schulz as its candidate in the battle to become the country’s next chancellor.

29/01/2017

Sport

Ski Jumping: Flying Poles seal Willingen team event

Poland celebrated only their second victory in a World Cup team ski jumping competition on Saturday.

28/01/2017

Business Series

Prosecutors probe when VW's former chief executive knew of emissions cheating

Prosecutors say former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is being investigated over when he knew about the company's emissions cheating.

27/01/2017

Sport

Alpine skiing: Ganong ends US's World Cup win drought

American Travis Ganong stormed to his second career World Cup victory, just over two years after his first, when he won a downhill race at the German resort of Garmisch…

27/01/2017

Business Planet

Why the Fashion Tech business model is taking Europe by storm

This episode of Business Planet comes from the Germany’s capital city, Berlin, where we visited a Fashion Tech hot spot to find out about its business model, the opportunities it presents and the secr

27/01/2017

Germany

Hollande and Merkel call for EU unity over Trump and Brexit

The French and German leaders have met in Berlin as May and Trump prepared to meet in the US, and ahead of an EU summit in Malta next week.

27/01/2017

Sport

EuroLeague: Real Madrid shoot to the top of the table

Real Madrid celebrated their fourth consecutive EuroLeague win on Wednesday night to move top of the standings, level on points with defending Champions CSKA…

26/01/2017

Economy

CeBIT technology trade fair: coping in an ever more digital world

The transformative power of digitalisation is the theme this year at CeBIT, the world's largest technology trade fair, previewed by Euronews.

26/01/2017

Cult

Sustainable and hi-tech fashion at Berlin's Green and Ethical Fashion Show

Off the shoulder dresses, flower prints in varying colours.

26/01/2017

Germany

German government approves autobahn tolls

Germany’s government has approved plans to impose tolls on its previously free autobahns.

26/01/2017

Germany

Germany targets far-right extremists in dozens of raids

Several of those targeted were believed to have links to the Reichsburger movement, an extremist group which rejects the legitimacy of the German republic.

25/01/2017

Germany

Refugee brides: what should Germany do about its child marriage problem?

Germany is on the frontline of controversial debate that has put European governments in a quandary – whether to recognise child marriage.

25/01/2017