Germany

Germany

Lufthansa pilots ordered back to work as strike ruled illegal

Lufthansa pilots have been ordered to end their strike and return to work. The action has led to the cancellation of around 1,000 flights in an

09/09/2015

Germany

Lufthansa pilots' two-day strike cancels hundreds of flights

A strike by Lufthansa pilots cancelled more than 80 long-haul flights out of Germany on Tuesday, and hundreds of short-haul journeys are likely to be

08/09/2015

Germany

Germany pleads for quotas of refugees as thousands more arrive and weather chills

Thousands more refugees arrived on Tuesday (Sept. 8) from Hungary into Austria, where the weather is getting colder. Austrian police say at least

08/09/2015

Germany

Latest Lufthansa strike could drag on past Tuesday

Pilots working for German airline Lufthansa could extend a two-day strike that started this morning (September 8). Hundreds of Lufthansa flights to

08/09/2015

Germany

Germany's winning refugee welcome formula

Many Germans are rolling out a cheering, red carpet welcome for refugees that few could doubt is genuine. To the many thousands fleeing war, who

07/09/2015

Germany

Germany welcomes 10,000 new refugees

Germany was expecting more than 10,000 new refugees to arrive during the course of Monday (September 7). Migrants and refugees received a warm

07/09/2015

Germany

Germany to spend six billion euros on refugees

Germany has announced a series of measures and six billion euros of funding to deal with the refugee crisis that is being described as

07/09/2015

Germany

Migrants: 2,500 expected in Germany on Monday

An estimated 2,500 migrants are expected to arrive in Germany on Monday. 20,000 travelled in by train from Austria over the weekend. The influx comes

07/09/2015

Germany

Warm welcome as refugees arrive in Germany

Refugees continue to arrive in Germany with close to 17,000 expected by the end of the weekend. Welcome treats - the Kamit family from Munich giving

06/09/2015

Germany

Far-right group sours refugee welcome in Dortmund

Not everyone in Germany is offering the arriving refugees a warm welcome. In Dortmund far-right extremists staged a protest at the city’s central

06/09/2015

Germany

Willkommen in München migrants arrive in Germany

The first trainloads of migrants travelling from Hungary via Austria have arrived in the German city of Munich. Bayern Munich's Javi Martinez went to

05/09/2015

Germany

Five injured as fire tears through refugee shelter in Germany

Five people have been taken to hospital after fire broke out at this refugee shelter in the German state of Hesse. One of them is in a serious

04/09/2015

Germany

German donations pour in to help migrants caught in the crisis

02/09/2015

Germany

Migrants: thousands bed down for the night in Budapest

Nightfall in Budapest has not dimmed the protests outside the city’s main railway station. Hundreds of migrants are stranded here. On Tuesday, the

02/09/2015

Germany

Merkel wants common European asylum policy

Germany has called for the immediate establishment of a common European asylum policy as thousands of migrants and refugees continue to try and enter

01/09/2015

Germany

Germany: welcoming and rejecting asylum seekers

Germany is witnessing mixed reactions to the arrival of thousands of asylum seekers in recent weeks. In Salzhemmendorf, northwestern Germany, a

29/08/2015

Germany

Berlin processing asylum seekers with difficulty

Central Berlin has been transformed by a crush of asylum seekers since the start of August, in a heatwave. Berlin expects 45,000 asylum arrivals by

28/08/2015

Germany

Migration: Merkel holds off on emergency EU summit

Angela Merkel has held off on calling an emergency EU summit on migration. The issue was top of the agenda during talks with Danish Prime Minister

28/08/2015

World

Germany wants camps in Italy, Greece, Turkey to sort through migrants seeking asylum

Germany's Interior Minister says the EU could fund a large refugee camp in Turkey that would sort through migrants and decide who can seek asylum in Europe. He warns Germany will turn away asylum seek

28/08/2015

Germany

Exclusive: EU should create immigrant processing centre in Turkey, says German minister

The European Union should set up a refugee camp in Turkey where immigration requests could be processed, Germany’s interior minister has said. In an

28/08/2015

Markets

US and European stocks rally after Chinese shares halt their slide

European stock markets on Thursday rallied off the back of gains in the US and a bounce back in China. By lunchtime Frankfurt and Paris were up by

27/08/2015

Germany

Merkel says Germany won't tolerate xenophobia and will help refugees

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday visited a newly opened refugee shelter in the eastern town of Heidenau, where violent anti-refugee protests erupted at the weekend.

26/08/2015

Germany

Bomb threat against Germany's SPD as tensions rise over asylum seekers

SPD workers were evacuated after a bomb threat against their HQ in Berlin - It's thought to be linked to tensions over asylum seekers sparked by Germany's far.right.

25/08/2015

Germany

Germany embraces Syrian asylum seekers but tensions remain

Germany is receiving more asylum seekers than any other EU country, with all the challenges that presents. One refugee camp in Friedland in Lower

25/08/2015

Economy

Germany business confidence remains high despite clouds over Asia

Despite the threat of stalled world growth German business morale rose in August. That’s according to a survey carried out by the Leibniz Institute

25/08/2015

Germany

Dinosaur footprints found in abandoned German quarry

Scientists in the German state of Lower Saxony, excavating an abandoned quarry, have found a set of dinosaur footprints that could be up to 145

24/08/2015