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Germany

Merkel's party dealt electoral blow: What you need to know

The German Chancellor announced she would step down in 2021 following disappointing results for her CDU party in the Hesse state election.

29/10/2018

Europe News

Hungary "not coordinating with Russia"

Interview with Hungary's FM in The Brief from Brussels

25/10/2018

Europe News

EU Parliament: Stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia

Member states should follow Germany's lead

25/10/2018

USA

Museum's ancient biblical artefacts are fake, researchers find

Researchers in Germany say several fragments of Bible Museum's Dead Sea Scrolls are fake

23/10/2018

Poland

Will Germany's diesel bans just push its pollution problem to Poland?

New figures show more than 350,000 dirty diesel cars were exported to Poland last year, mainly from Germany.

23/10/2018

Germany

Euroviews. Bavarian election: Do not forget the biggest loser, SPD! | View

SPD’s vote actually halved, from 20.6% in 2013, to just 9.7%! This marks the party’s worst result in Bavaria since the 1930s, and is the first state parliament now where they have fallen below the symbolic 10% threshold in recent history - a painful exercise for a former Volkspartei.

15/10/2018

Germany

Euroviews. Bavaria tells Europe to think beyond immigration | View

Bavaria's elections sent a powerful message ahead of Europe-wide votes next year.

15/10/2018

World News

Seven stories from around Europe to know about today

Here are some of the key developments from around Europe at noon today, Monday, October 15.

15/10/2018

Greece

Greece to renew call for Germany to pay €279 billion in WWII damages

Greece's President is expected to raise the issue during a meeting this week with his German counterpart.

10/10/2018

Germany

Berlin court orders German capital to impose diesel ban

A Berlin court ruled on Tuesday that the German capital should impose driving bans on some roads for diesel cars whose emissions of nitrogen oxide exceed permitted limits.

09/10/2018

World News

European lander prepares to reach Ryugu asteroid

The MASCOT lander departed Earth four years ago and travelled some 320 million kms.

02/10/2018

Germany

German journalist stabbed by teens who 'gave Hitler salute'

Police have launched an investigation into the attack that saw the journalist cut 6 centimetres deep in the stomach.

02/10/2018

World News

Turkey's Erdogan opens Germany's largest mosque amid security lockdown

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wrapped up a three-day visit to Germany on Saturday with a visit to Cologne, where a security lockdown kept supporters and protesters away from a ceremony to open the country's largest mosque.

30/09/2018

My Europe Series

"Insiders" talks to all sides on the great German coal divide

Despite its Green credentials Germany is a heavy user of coal, especially lignite, which comes from Europe's biggest opencast strip-mine. Now it wants to expand, but first it has to expel protesters from what remains of Hambach forest, which is due to disappear.

28/09/2018

My Europe Series

"Insiders" gets an expert's case against coal

Germany, a heavy user of dirty coal, has a high profile as an environmental leader, but that paradox has to change and the arguments for phasing out this fossil fuel are, says one expert, incontrovertible.

28/09/2018

My Europe Series

German energy giant clears climate protesters from Hambach forest

Central Europe's last primordial forest in Germany is about to be obliterated to dig up dirty and inefficient lignite coal, despite Berlin's trumpeted green credentials. Insiders talks to all sides of the story, but RWE refuses to comment.

28/09/2018

Sweden

Danish police operation shuts major bridges, ferries to Sweden

While the operation is still ongoing, the bridges were set to be reopened soon.

28/09/2018

Culture Series

Photographer Semra Sevin on the power of beauty

Semra underlines the concept of diversity, and her exploration translates into profound studied subjects, deep meditation and pompous photography installations

28/09/2018

Germany

Erdogan calls for extradition for Gulen and Dundar during meeting with Merkel

The German and Turkish leaders hold a joint-press conference in Berlin.

28/09/2018

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A light installation on Cologne Cathedral commemorates WWI

This week, for the first time in its history, Cologne Cathedral will be floodlit with moving images. The light production tells the story of the First World War in moving images and thus reminds of the end of the war 100 years ago in the context of the cathedral pilgrimage.

27/09/2018