Germany

Germany

Hamburg 2024 Olympic bid rests on referendum

29/11/2015

Germany

Merkel faces call to resign amid migrant crisis criticism

A German right-wing party is calling on Chancellor Angela Merkel to go, amid criticism of her handling of the migrant crisis. Eurosceptic

29/11/2015

Germany

Germany's Cabinet backs military support for fight against ISIL

Under pressure from Paris, Germany’s set to help in the fight against ISIL militants. Tornado reconnaissance jets are being pledged, along with a

26/11/2015

Sport

Klitschko and Fury warm up for title fight at Dusseldorf airport

Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury undergo a public training session at Dusseldorf airport ahead of their heavyweight title fight.

26/11/2015

Economy

Germany won't lower minimum wage for migrants, says economy minister Gabriel

Germany’s economy minister has said the country’s minimum wage will not be lowered for migrants because of the refugee crisis. Senior economists had

26/11/2015

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Refugees' new challenge: Europe's winter

The EU’s refugee crisis is facing a fresh challenge – migrants arriving unprepared for winter conditions. Temperatures have dipped below zero degrees

26/11/2015

Culture news

The Dark Years - an exhibition in Berlin of art during the years of the Second World War

“The Black Rooms” is a tense painting by Karl Hofer from 1943 and it sets the tone of a new exhibition in Berlin which traces art under the National

25/11/2015

Economy

German business morale rises despite global uncertainty

German business morale has risen to its highest level for nearly 18 months, despite the slowdown in China, the Volkswagen scandal and more recently

24/11/2015

Sport

Daniel-Andre Tande clinches maiden World Cup win in Germany

Norway’s Daniel-Andre Tande produced a stunning performance to clinch the first individual ski jumping event of the new World Cup season in

22/11/2015

Sport

Germany ski jumping team take World Cup victory for 2nd year

Germany’s male ski jumping team edged Slovenia to win the season’s first World Cup. The winning team – of Andreas Wellinger, Andreas Wank, Richard

21/11/2015

Business Series

Volkswagen to cut capital spending and focus on future technologies

Volkswagen says it is to reduce capital spending to no more than 12 billion euros next year as it struggles with the enormous cost of its emissions

20/11/2015

Culture news

Gender bending Japanese makeup ad wins top EPICA prize

Founded in 1987, EPICA is the only creative ad prize awarded by journalists working for marketing and communications magazines around the world

20/11/2015

Economy

Draghi says ECB will do what it must to boost inflation

Mario Draghi has said the European Central Bank is ready to act quickly to boost inflation in the eurozone. The comments by the bank’s president at

20/11/2015

Economy

Telegram messaging app struggles to block ISIS sites

Stung by revelations that ISIS was using the ultra-secure messaging app Telegram, the Berlin-based service has been racing to shut down dozens of

19/11/2015

Germany

International friendly called off over bomb fears

Spectators have been evacuated from a football stadium in Germany which had planned to host an international friendly on Tuesday evening. The fixture

18/11/2015

Germany

Germany-Netherlands friendly called off due to "security threat"

A friendly between the German and Dutch national football teams has been cancelled, reportedly because of a bomb threat. The stadium in the city of

17/11/2015

Germany

Paris: police release five people arrested in Germany

Five people arrested in Germany in connection with last Friday’s attacks in Paris have been released. The arrests were made on Tuesday in the small

17/11/2015

Germany

Germany: remains of at least 8 babies found in house

Police in Germany say the bodies of at least eight babies have been found in a house in a town close to the Czech border. The alarm was raised in the

13/11/2015

Germany

German police find seven dead babies in apartment

The bodies of seven dead babies have been found in an apartment in the southern German state of Bavaria, police said, adding that they wanted to

13/11/2015

Focus

Salt filled batteries to give engines new lease of life

On the streets near a research institute in Dresden, Germany, a Hungarian physicist drives an electric car with a “pioneering vision”

13/11/2015

Germany

Schäuble's 'refugee avalanche' remark whips up storm in Germany

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has caused a political storm by his comments on the migrant crisis. In an apparent swipe at his boss Angela

12/11/2015

Economy

Winterkorn quits as Audi chairman as emissions probes continue

He resigned as head of Volkswagen in the wake of the diesel emissions tests scandal, then he left the family-owned Porsche – now he is quitting as

12/11/2015

My Europe Series

Is Europe doomed because of Merkel's domestic troubles?

Europe’s “powerfrau”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has wielded her country’s power to tackle a devastating financial crisis, a refugee crisis and

12/11/2015

Germany

Migrant crisis piles political pressure on Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming under increasing domestic political pressure to find a lasting solution to the refugee crisis, which will

11/11/2015

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Santa makes an appearance in Germany

Santa Claus arrives at a post office in the small German town of Himmelpfort. Children from all over the world are encouraged to send their Christmas

11/11/2015

Germany

Remembering a giant of German politics....

Floral tributes as well as personal accolades have been paid to the former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt who has died at the age of 96. He

11/11/2015