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In the central German state of Thuringia, Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party is hoping to lure former residents back to their "homeland" by offering ...
Domestic strength proves a boon for France, while Germany's exports suffer.
Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.
Thousands of protesters, many on bicycles, gathered in the southern German city of Frankfurt Saturday to protest outside the city's motor show, part of a new ...
Four feature films by German filmmakers screened at the Toronto Film Festival, and three of them were directed by women – Angela Schanelec's “I Was at Home ...
With storm clouds gathering over the economy, what Europe really needs is for Germany to open up its pocketbook and start spending big.
German politicians are considering a controversial tax on meat to boost animal welfare, fight climate change, and improve human health.
Interior Minister Seehofer has made the gesture ahead of EU talks on migration later this month. The issue has been one of hot debate in recent years following ...
The footballing legend who coached a world record 55 teams — including 18 national sides — has died at the age of 93. One of his proudest moments was ...
Loopholes in Germany's penal code allow upskirting — the act of secretly taking images under a person's clothes without consent — to go unpunished.
Discover German-Russian Museum in Berlin, Germany: In the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender, this museum tells the story of World War II from ...
St. Mary's Hospital in the German town of Buer on Friday said three babies were born between June and September with congenital anomalies of one of their ...
Jack Maddocks said goodbye to his mates in the Wallabies squad in Japan on Saturday and jumped on a flight to Munich to link up with the Australian sevens ...
GERMANY should have been more flexible towards Britain ahead of Brexit and wants good relations with the UK, the former head of German intelligence has ...
Germany's motor vehicle authority (KBA) has told Volkswagen's premium brand Audi that it faces penalties for its failure to remove illegal software from diesel ...
A Brazilian Pentecostal congregation wants to buy the New Nazareth Church in Berlin. The building is for sale, but local politicians don't want the evangelicals to ...
The benefits of integration carry a price tag. German voters have never been required to understand this bargain.
The benefits of integration carry a price tag. German voters have never been required to understand this bargain.
Fears are rising of a recession in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and long-time powerhouse of the eurozone. The latest data does not look good – the ...
Germany is planning to hold a UN-backed international conference on the future of Libya in an attempt to force the many regional actors to stop funding and ...
Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild, on Friday accused European Central Bank President Mario Draghi of "sucking dry" the accounts of Germany's savers, ...
Germany is at a crossroads, and nowhere will that be more evident than at the Frankfurt auto show this week.
France and Germany have agreed to block Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, the French finance ministry said on Friday.
The Deutsche Bahn increased its debts in 2019 and the German rail company is now €3 billion ($3.3 billion) short of meeting its financial obligations, according ...
One of the strengths of German cinema is its diversity, but it could take greater risks.
Germany's Protestant Church will send a ship to the Mediterranean to rescue migrants attempting to make the crossing into Europe, the church council head said ...
A slight majority of Germans believe that democracy is in danger, according to a new YouGov poll. Right-wing extremism is given as the biggest reason for this ...
More Germans could find themselves at risk of poverty in later life, according to a study of projected income levels. Plans for a basic pension for those in the most ...
A withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan could see the country falling back under the strict Islamic rule of the Taliban, German Defence Minister Annegret ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to help offset the higher costs of cleaner vehicles by putting a price on carbon-dioxide emissions, potentially offering a lift to ...
Key point: An assassination attempt on Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt would have change world history. In German it was called Operation Rösselsprung, ...
Sebastian Vettel says Formula 1 will regret not keeping the German Grand Prix on the race calendar for next season.
Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, has joined JPMorgan's blockchain-based network, the Interbank Information Network.
Russia was behind the murder last month of a former Chechen rebel in Germany, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, rekindling concerns that Moscow is ramping up ...
Analysing how Brexit will affect Germany has meant a better understanding of the benefits of the EU and the challenges faced by Ireland.
Bundesliga is the college football equivalent of pro soccer: It's got the passion, fans and reputation for producing talent.
Polls before this weekend's elections in states in the former East Germany show the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) comfortably capturing 20 percent or ...
The activist Joshua Wong has called for Germany to stop the export of riot control weapons and equipment to Hong Kong police, as he embarked on a global ...
Germans are less scared than they have been since 1993, according to a new poll. Germany straining under the migrant crisis has beaten Trump to the top spot.
A study by the German Environment Ministry has found almost all children tested have traces of plastic byproducts in their bodies. Some of the chemicals found ...
Knowing where products are made is key to stopping human rights abuses in the global supply chain. An alliance of 64 NGOs and trade unions in ...
Thousands of climate-change activists formed a human roadblock on Sunday to the Frankfurt auto show, one of the largest car industry showcases in the world.
When Wolfgang Schaeuble stepped down in 2017, Europe's much-feared austerity champion received a special gift: his staff at the finance ministry lined up as a ...
ON SEPTEMBER 1ST Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) scored its worst result at a state election in Saxony for three decades—and the party ...
Goals from Marcel Halstenberg and Serge Gnabry gave Germany a 2-0 win at Windsor Park against a Northern Ireland side that had chances but could not take ...
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Weaker demand from abroad drove a bigger-than-expected drop in German industrial orders in July, suggesting that struggling ...
GERMANY is on the brink of a recession after leading economists cut its gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for the third financial quarter.
Bank told any cheaper money announced this week will not boost the economy and will only further hurt savers.
Two British investment bankers have gone on trial in Bonn in what German media have called “the biggest financial fraud trial” in the country's postwar history.
Germany has said it will phase out the controversial weedkiller glyphosate because it wipes out insect populations crucial for ecosystems and pollination of food ...
Germany is confident that hitches threatening the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be resolved to allow completion of the project on time this year.
Several "basic projects" may have to be scrapped unless the German military is given additional funds, German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, ...
The German government has said it will ease the process for descendants of people persecuted by the Nazis to regain citizenship, after a campaign by a ...
Two men who groomed and abused hundreds of children at a campsite in Germany over a period of more than 20 years have been jailed by a judge who said ...
In 1888, Bertha Benz set out to prove that her husband Carl's Motorwagen was safe and ready to sell. Fast forward, and Germany is still the country of premium ...
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Thursday said he would continue to meet with activists after China issued an strong rebuke over his meeting with Hong ...
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party surged in elections in two eastern states, but not enough to oust the ruling coalitions there.
It's very possible that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could sweep the two regional votes in Brandenburg and Saxony on Sept. 1 and another after that ...
The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety submitted in June an amendment to the Nature Conservation Act (1) ...
In latest sign Europe's largest economy is struggling, ifo index falls to lowest level since 2012.
Germany's Military Counterintelligence *Service* (MAD) is widening its investigation into far-right extremists within the Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces, ...
First there was derision. Then mockery turned into admiration. Now a battle is unfolding between two of the most revered names in the automobile world, ...
A German man is being sued by the owners of a four-star hotel in Austria after posting online reviews in which he criticised them for decorating their lobby with a ...
A member of a far-right party with neo-Nazi ties has been elected as the head of a local council in Germany for his ability to use a computer and send emails.
A massive environmental monitoring unit on the seabed vanishes, baffling German experts.
More than 100 German cities and towns have instituted programs meant to reacquaint refugees and survivors with their homes prior to war.
A municipal disagreement illustrates Germany's polarized debate about open societies, tolerance, and integration.
Votes for the far-right party are votes to supplant liberal democracy and openness.
Police and the public prosecutor's office raided 16 locations throughout northern Germany on Wednesday in order to target a suspected criminal organization ...
Eastern Germans vote, think, and feel differently than western Germans do, as the results of the September 1 regional elections make clear. To help tackle the ...
The German president vowed his country would never forget the atrocities of the Nazi period on Sunday as he asked forgiveness from Poland during a series of ...
Highly skilled people are more likely to flee conflict zones. Receiving countries just need to use their skills better.
Bielefeld's marketing office aims to exploit 'conspiracy theory' spawned by joke in 1994.
Paris | Ramsay Health Care's European arm is keeping an eye out for further growth opportunities in the huge but largely unconquered market of Germany, even ...
Arnstadt's embrace of a giant new battery plant for electric cars illustrates Europe's ambivalence toward Chinese investment: Jobs trump geopolitics.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will run the world's largest current account surplus in 2019 for the fourth consecutive year, the Ifo economic institute said on Friday, ...
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Far-right party insists it is pro-women as it attacks government's green agenda before regional polls.
What is Germany willing to do to stabilize Syria? Will it prolong its anti-IS mandate? How does its large Syrian community affect matters? Ahead of the mandate's ...
To understand negative rates, you need some grasp of economics. To understand the political fallout, you'd be better off with linguistics. The German term ...
Germany's economy is heading into recession after the country's central bank warned that a slump in exports during the summer was likely to continue into the ...
You might think that recent events — market turmoil, weakening growth, declining manufacturing production — must be producing some soul-searching in the ...
As students all over the world begin new school terms, German pupils' experiences are rooted in special rites and a philosophy that teaches independence.
The Chinese government has expressed its anger with Germany's foreign minister over his meeting with the Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, ...
On Sept. 1, 1939, at around 4:48 a.m., an aged German battleship opened fire on a Polish port outside the northern city of Danzig. Strategic bridges were hit at ...
After a surprise rejection of the Libra by French authorities recently, it seems Germany is now also jumping on board. The two countries issued a joint statement ...
Angela Merkel said she told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during talks in Beijing that Hong Kong's rights and freedoms should be safeguarded.
A new report by consulting giant McKinsey finds that Germany's Energiewende, or energy transition to renewables, poses a significant threat to the nation's ...
BERLIN—Save the whales, sure. But save the dung beetles? In 2017, researchers reported a dramatic loss of insects in Germany's nature reserves: 76% less ...
A single watchtower is all that remains of the feared border that once separated East Germany from West Germany on the banks of the river Elbe near the town ...
In the past, the Greens were happy if they scraped into regional assemblies in eastern Germany. Now the party is luring voters keen to stop the far right.
A collapse in exports pushed Europe's largest economy to the brink of recession in the second quarter. In a sign that an increasingly hostile trade war between ...
Barcelona No.1 Ter Stegen admitted his frustration with his situation at international level last week, now Neuer has pointedly replied.
Germany's export-dependent economy is suffering from a Brexit shock that along with the rise in global trade tensions and structural changes in the car industry, ...
As Berlin tries to switch to greener transport, people are choosing the bike, not the electric car – and it's becoming a status symbol.
In April, the Arolsen Archives made more than 13 million documents on victims of the Nazi regime available online. DW's Emmanuelle Chaze went on a personal ...
The Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei is swapping his adopted home of Berlin for Britain, saying German society has become intolerant of refugees and ...
A graphic novelist gives in to her curiosity and draws her impressions of Hitler's infamous book.
SALT LAKE CITY — When you take this new Dutch-engineered vehicle to the lake, you don't have to stop at the edge of the water. Fox 13 Car Critic Brian ...