By abusing the power to bring the country to a halt at a stroke, train drivers' union GDL is endangering rights for all workers - and its own cause, argues The Local editor Tom Barfield.
VIDEO: The Local hit the streets around the iconic Brandenburg Gate to find out whether Germans think the Second World War still has an impact on their country today.
German politicians and commentators confronted the reality that Germany would have to take an even more dominant role in Europe on Friday after David Cameron's Conservative party achieved a surprise victory in the British general election.
DE-CIX, the German company that operates the world's biggest internet exchange, is taking the country's spy agency to court with allegations that its mass surveillance is illegal.
With the war of words – and cashflows – between Greece and Germany showing no sign of dying down, The Local meets one young Greek who's come to see what the Germans have to teach about running a country successfully.
Germany's long slide away from the Nato spending target of 2 percent of GDP continued in 2014 despite renewed fears of a military threat to Europe from Russia, according to a new report.
Germanwings flight 4U9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who reportedly intentionally crashed the plane carrying 149 other people, searched for information about suicide methods and cockpit door security systems online, German prosecutors said on Thursday.
An expert on unmanned weapon systems has told The Local that Germany should not be pushing forward with its own armed unmanned drones as the robot arms race heats up.
Germany submitted more reports of harmful consumer products to the European Union than any other country, but was also the biggest producer of dangerous items inside the EU, a report showed on Monday.
Around 70 police officers searched the Sahabe Islamic Education and Cultural Centre in Stuttgart on Tuesday, looking for connections to terrorist organisation Isis.
Arms exports from German companies fell by 43 percent in between 2009 and 2014 compared with the previous five years, new figures released on Monday showed – but fresh orders may see them back on the rise soon.
On Sunday March 15th at 2 pm, the streets of Berlin's Kreuzberg district will turn green as the city's Irish community invites one and all to become their honorary countrymen for St Patrick's Day.
A journalist who has previously received death threats from the far right was attacked in Dortmund on Monday evening after covering a demonstration by a neo-Nazi group, police said on Tuesday.
Police have released security camera footage from a December robbery at Berlin's Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) luxury department store, in an appeal for information from members of the public.
Randall Birnberg is a positive psychology coach who's trying to bring the science of happiness to German workplaces. In an interview for JobTalk, he explains how he came across his calling – and how Germans have responded.
Reports over the weekend that Germany is working on a new draft law for mass data retention provoked an outcry among activists and politicians across the political spectrum.
Germany's ambassador to India stepped into a university admissions row after a professor said she wouldn't accept a male Indian student for an internship because of the country's “rape problem”.
Pro-legalization campaigners welcomed a draft law presented by the Green party on Wednesday that would allow adults to consume cannabis under strict conditions.
Germans are more supportive of how the EU is run than any other member state, but experts tell The Local that may only last as long as the economic good times.
American soldier Andre Shepherd, who applied for asylum in Germany as a conscientious objector against the war in Iraq after going AWOL from his unit, saw a judgement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) go against him on Thursday.
The Federation of Consumer Protection Offices (vzbv) has warned Facebook over legal breaches in its terms and conditions, saying that its claim on the homepage that “Facebook is free and always will be” is misleading.
Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews, said on Thursday that Jewish people should avoid making themselves too visible in “problem neighbourhoods”.
Berlin rapper Bass Sultan Hengzt released an album cover calculated to smoke out homophobia among listeners, prompting what Germans love to call a “Sh*tstorm”.
