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Deutsche Bank subsidiary CEO resigns after greenwashing raid

The head of DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, has resigned, after 50 German investigators raided its offices over alleged greenwashing.

01/06/2022

Moldova

Help to Ukrainian refugees arriving in Moldova and Poland surges

From UNHCR to German businesses and private citizens, attempts are being made to ease the trouble of hundreds of thousands seeking shelter in Europe as the war in Ukraine enters its second month.

26/03/2022

Germany

Ryanair to close base at Germany's Frankfurt Airport

The budget airline complained the airport had "chosen to increase prices even further, making Frankfurt uncompetitive with European airports”.

07/01/2022

Economy

Europe faces tough call on stimulus amid omicron fears

The European Central Bank is being pulled two ways: It's caught between a scheduled end of its pandemic stimulus and growing alarm about the new omicron variant of the coronavirus.

16/12/2021

Earth News

Climate change protest in Frankfurt targets financial sector

In Germany hundreds of protesters marched past the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt to challenge the role the financial sector plays in climate change.

14/08/2021

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Hundreds march through Frankfurt financial sector for climate

Several hundred people joined a climate march through Frankfurt, walking past the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters with the intent of challenging the role the financial sector plays in climate change.

13/08/2021

Germany

Germany busts one of world's biggest darknet platforms for child porn

Prosecutors in Germany make arrests and take down international porn ring on darknet containing "images of most severe sexual abuse of toddlers".

03/05/2021

Germany

Drone sighting causes flight chaos at Frankfurt airport

Flights were severely disrupted at Frankfurt airport — one of Europe’s busiest hubs — because of a drone, police and air traffic controllers said.

02/03/2020

Economy

The work to stabilise the eurozone isn’t over. Reforms are necessary to avoid the abyss again ǀ View

Giving the EU its own resources is the only way to overcome country divisions on EU spending from national budgets.

02/12/2019

Business

First protest for the ECB New President

Protestors said they want the bond-buying policy to be more transparent and to go in another direction, which is to set climate-oriented goals.

01/11/2019

Business

Mario Draghi's final ECB meeting

Mario Draghi's final assessment on the state of the eurozone economy.

25/10/2019

Germany

Syrian man arrested after truck rams into traffic in Limburg, Germany

Eight people were injured after a stolen truck was driven into vehicles at an intersection.

08/10/2019

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'French Spiderman' scales a 39-storey skyscraper in Frankfurt

Alain Robert is known for climbing some of the world's tallest structures without safety ropes... or permission

28/09/2019

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Demonstrators blocked Frankfurt highways for a greener traffic policy

Various environmental groups have joined forces for the protest. They accuse the auto industry of not resolutely pursuing the shift towards emission-free electromobility and continuing to rely on climate-damaging SUVs.

15/09/2019

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Climate protestors demonstrate at Frankfurt Motor Show

Several thousand climate activists protested in Frankfurt on Saturday (September 14) against climate-damaging cars as the city hosts the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA).

14/09/2019

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Fridays for Future calls for more action against climate change

Hundreds of protesters from the 'Fridays for Future' movement took to the streets of Frankfurt on Friday. At the same time, protesters also gathered in Berlin and formed a human chain around the chancellery, demanding more action be taken against climate change

13/09/2019

Germany

Frankfurt station reopens after police close it to probe bank robbery

Frankfurt's main railway station has reopened after a police operation investigated suspected bank robbery.

02/08/2019

Germany

16,000 evacuated in Frankfurt to defuse WWII bomb

16,000 people were evacuated from an area of Frankfurt to allow for an unexploded WWII bomb to be defused.

07/07/2019

Germany

Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt

It created a massive underwater blast when the police defused it.

14/04/2019

World

Breakfast with Belle in Frankfurt

Good Morning Europe's Belle Donati sits down with German MEP Terry Reintke ahead of the upcoming European Elections.

12/04/2019