📰 Breaking News: News Archive for June 2012 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 June
- Ex-pat Brits gear up for royal jubilee
- Deutsche Bank CEO steps down
- Germany beat Israel, still 'have far to go'
- Kids - eat 59,000 calories for a football shirt!
- Butcher unveils sausage vending machine
- Fair weekend but rockers face rainy Sunday
- Football delegation visits Auschwitz
- Conductor goes off rails, steals driver seats
- Merkel and Putin: tackle Syria with politics
- Schlecker rescue fails, 13,000 jobs doomed
02 June
- Germany elects first ever black mayor
- Report: Turks with dementia forget German
- Men in police custody steal cop camera
- Childcare subsidies cause party rift
- Donor day designed to ease organ shortage
- 'Warzone' in Hamburg after Nazi demo
03 June
- Socialist Left party finally elects leadership
- Germany 'aided Israel's nuclear ambitions'
- VW to focus on China, heavy vehicles
- Löw: I'm favouring the Bavarians
- Six out of seven shops sell mouldy strawberries
- Firms training dropouts to fill labour gap
04 June
- Unemployed 'to work in kindergartens'
- Foreign Minister visits Syria's neighbours
- Berlin man 'beheads wife'
- Soros: Merkel has three months to save euro
- 700,000 enjoy Japan Day in Düsseldorf
- Man over board in party boat brawl
- Berlin man 'beheads wife'
- Jewish leader slams Auschwitz visit
- Euro crisis hits DAX index hard
- 'Canadian Psycho' tells Berlin police 'You got me'
- Hertha player gets record ban for attacking referee
05 June
- Hamburg lets it be as Beatles museum closes
- German dead in Nigeria plane crash
- No widow's pension for suicide pact survivor
- Newly-weds auction off wedding night sex
- Merkel offers 'trader tax' for Fiscal Pact support
- German subs key for Israel, says Netanyahu
- Google butchers Cologne Cathedral
- 'Canadian Psycho' will accept extradition
- Drop in foreign demand hits industrial orders
- Man who beheaded wife held in psych institute
06 June
- German translates oldest known Hebrew
- German team hits back at Auschwitz visit criticism
- Moody's downgrades several German banks
- Liberal Löw okays booze and sex at Euro 2012
- Judge's fury at politicians over election law
- Fancy love letter mistaken for letter bomb
- Parents to be paid to keep tots at home
- Tragedy draws Turkish 'Men Against Violence'
- Beekeeper's illegal castle demolished
- Merkel's partners oppose EU banking union
07 June
- Court: winning Big Brother is taxable work
- Credit bureau to trawl Facebook for information
- Merkel: EU political union first and foremost
- Police raid more than 70 biker gang addresses
- What's on in Germany: June 7 - 13
- Most Germans expect euro crisis to get worse
- German centre-left joins forces with French
- Eight iconic German Euro moments
- North Sea island is jewel in German house market
- Iranian refugees sew up mouths in protest
- Merkel and Cameron - fiscal pact not enough
- Thirst for coffee kills animals worldwide
08 June
- Stuka WWII dive bomber to be hauled from seabed
- Ex-Schlecker staff to be offered care training
- Minister hits turbulence over flying carpet affair
- Trade surplus drops as eurozone crisis bites
- German freelancers on the march
- Should Schufa trawl your Facebook page?
- Cleaner in hospital after giant otter attack
- Fickle weather promises warm and wet weekend
- More young people going bankrupt
- Bhopal waste will be flown to Germany
09 June
- Germany face Portugal in Euro 2012 opener
- Kassel opens 13th 'documenta' art show
- Germany urges Spain to 'ask for financial help'
- Seventh fire in apartment building within a month
- Two Germans die in Tyrolean mountains
10 June
- Germany begin Euro 2012 with a win
- Politicians fail to calm fury at sex offender home
- Four killed in Bavarian helicopter crash
- Sad seal pups surface at seaside sanctuaries
- Germany's press hails header hero
- Police rescue boozed-up man from grit bin
11 June
- Minister: No transaction tax before election
- Army chief: We need more creches
- Germany welcomes Spain's bid for help
- Minister could stumble over carpet affair
- OECD slams government day care payment plan
- Push-me-pull-you rescue truck in tunnel service
- The Spanish bailout: fire fighting or faith-healing?
- Hells Angel under police guard after attack
- Blotto binman drove at ten times booze limit
- Germany will fight to keep total GM food ban
12 June
- Half of new German televisions are online
- Al-Qaeda: Germans caused engineer death
- Windy palm tree peril kills holidaymaker
- MPs cannot read 'badly translated' EU papers
- Power firm 'spent €200m on Russian favours'
- Seasonal workers have rights to family support
- Son jailed for three years for 'mercy-killing' mum
- Mystery 'forest boy' shows face 10 months on
- Berlin sticks to guns ahead of G20
13 June
- Merkel losing domestic political oxygen
- Go-ahead for €1.6 billion particle accelerator
- Upmarket hotel plans for Nazi beach resort
- Energy firms want billions for nuke exit
- Germans disappointed by Obama over attacks
- Berlin Wall park entrance fee mulled for rubbish
- Baltic beaches declared no smoking zones
- Germans take on the desperate Dutch
- Charges for couple who held German girl as slave
- Germans working more hours than for 20 years
- Germany defeat Dutch, head for Euro quarters
14 June
- Cash 'threatens search for fresh blood'
- What's on in Germany: June 14 - 20
- Merkel: limits to German economic strength
- Nazi camp guard's son: 'docs killed my dad'
- Blood money - is it okay to pay donors?
- Four held as cops target fascist web masters
- Germans agree on fiscal pact vote this month
- Fake suicide vest prompts Salafist raids
- Storks get high-tech bling for epic trek
- Top Hells Angel gets four years in jail
15 June
- Germany fined for firework-flinging fans
- Merkel: Do not overestimate Germany
- One in four Germans officially obese
- Poisonous caterpillars plague Germany
- Widow granted pension after 19-day marriage
- Father kills four children in marital row
- Government fumes at opposition debate trick
- Schlecker closure means hefty bill for jobs agency
- Greeks rail against 'crude' German editorial
- 'Forest boy Ray' actually Dutch man Robin
16 June
- Germany's class of 2010 ready to down Danes
- Man 'kills flatmate and jumps from window'
- Rainy summer week ahead for Germans
- Merkel ally tells Greece: Vote right or euro's gone
- Left leader calls for 40k a month income cap
- Ukraine: blame Germany for Tymoshenko jail term
17 June
- Danes need 'luck and graft' against Germans
- Supermarket scores with nudist gimmick
- Neo-Nazi 'aided Munich Olympics massacre'
- Forest boy 'was in adolescent crisis'
- Germany in €10-billion tank deal with Saudis
- Surprise for historians raising WWII plane
- Germany beat Denmark to reach Euro quarters
18 June
- Germany reaches out to compliant Greeks
- Munich votes against third runway
- Hacker collective mocks cops after raids
- Germany play Greece in euro crisis showdown
- Anglers chip fish to batter poaching attempts
- Energy giant pulls plug on nuclear power
- Top economist predicts Greek exit in five years
- Priests rebel to include remarried divorcees
- Sleep walker locks self out in naked nightmare
- Poor marks expected for teacher parking fee idea
19 June
- Airport wasted millions on soundproofing
- 'Canadian Psycho' extradited from Germany
- Merkel's plan for euro 'encourages' Obama
- German MPs get more say in EU decisions
- Sugary kids' drink gets misleading ad award
- Investor confidence hit by Spain's struggles
- German authorities to sue 'lying Dutchman'
- White House parking mix up leaves Rösler on foot
- Activists offer cash for info on tank makers
- Court: Catholic church can fire lesbian
20 June
- German deported home for terrorist links
- Book describes Germany without foreigners
- Police hunt Bernhard the fugitive kangaroo
- 'Psychopaths tortured and killed' old people
- Fossilised turtle orgy a world first
- Smoke alarms could be disaster warning system
- German banker: I took $44m Formula 1 bribe
- Government report slams own child care plan
- Merkel will see Germany take on Greece
- Germans plan holidays despite euro crisis
21 June
- Porn-kitsch king Koons conquers Frankfurt
- Merkel welcomes new Greek prime minister
- Court: refugees must be treated equally
- Car workers get early night to watch football
- Weather watchers warn of washout weekend
- Ten tell-tale signs that you've gone native
- What's on in Germany: June 21 - 27
- Germany ratifies EU fiscal pact
- Bavarian graphite mine reopens on higher prices
- UK magazine: Merkel 'most dangerous leader'
- Green energy cable to link Germany and Norway
22 June
- TV better than sex for German women
- Study: Arctic went through ice-free stages
- President Gauck delays EU bailout approval
- Woman stuck upside down in car for two days
- German businesses 'finally get crisis feeling'
- Greeks happy as David to Germany's Goliath
- Sexist ads create turbulence for Lufthansa
- Merkel's bailout fund hits 'stumbling block'
- One in five German teens can't read well enough
- Cow sees reflection rival, jumps into kitchen
- Germany beat Greece 4-2 with 'class performance'
23 June
- New Berlin airport date could be even later
- German-based UK soldier dies in rafting drama
- 'Contract killer' ants provoke others to attack
- German banks take US rating agency hits
- Man presumed dead after house explodes
- German line-up mole leaves Löw fuming
24 June
- Gay pride parade targets Russian repression
- Toxic gas found on German warships
- Finance minister: more political powers for EU
- Germans panic-buy over-priced Swiss houses
- Anti-Bild campaign mars paper's birthday stunt
- Ex-president 'hid' prize money in private account
25 June
- Grandmother suspected of killing toddler
- Berlin baby born on back seat of police car
- BMW expands green venture with Toyota
- Germany 'owes half its foreign aid pledges'
- I stripped for Spencer - making art in Munich
- Bavarian firms: tax check once in 250 years
- Germany to face Italy in semi-final
- Tribe claims 'sacred' Berlin peace project rock
- New national spy HQ to open a year late
- No referendum for Germany on EU
26 June
- Life costs less in Germany than next door
- Cities scramble for cool new Facebook names
- Ambulance bill threat in city-insurers row
- Offshore windpark plans buffeted by doubt
- Religious circumcisions are crimes says court
- Circumcision: religious right or crime?
- Women on far more psycho drugs than men
- German posties take dog defence classes
- Germany set sights on smashing Italy
- Dairy dessert duel enters second round
27 June
- Police mistake rogue vibrator for burglar
- Seven hurt as funfair ride breaks up mid-spin
- Merkel: No eurobonds 'as long as I live'
- Landowners get right to refuse hunting access
- Sportswear giants 'cutting off' discounters
- Schumacher could lose car if F1 boss corrupt
- Muslims, Jews denounce circumcision ruling
- Half of German teens 'unsure Hitler a dictator'
- Schlecker stores close doors for last time
- Banker jailed for $44m Formula 1 bribe
28 June
- Astronaut - we need to clean up space
- Schweinsteiger: golden generation needs title
- What's on in Germany: June 28 – July 4
- Black market in Wagner festival tickets booms
- Immigrants 'doing better at school and work'
- Intel 'destroyed as Nazi terror group exposed'
- 'Go home and lie', court tells lesbian Iranian
- Mid-sized firms plan to invest - with own cash
- Organist fired for 'living in sin' wins payout
- Tap water 'better than bottled brands'
- German cities wary of WWII bombers memorial
- Ciao! Italians kick Germany out of Euros
29 June
- Choir face-off with Czech cops over bus driver
- Most Germans do not want a more powerful EU
- Fans and footballers frustrated by Italian win
- Rare gangster-rapper T-shirt betrays robber
- EU helps Spain, Italy, but still no eurobonds
- Man 'paid €1,000 to have girlfriend killed'
- Heat and storms continue in see-saw summer
- Last coal marks end of Saarland mining
- Nightclubs pull plug in license fee protest
- One month, 36,000 kilometres: Europe's Interrail champion
30 June
- Three killed by lightning strike
- Germany approves euro-crisis fighting tools
- 'Witches' pardoned 400 years after executions
- Happy holidays for mobile phone users
- Hospital stops ops after circumcision ruling
- UEFA 'faked' tears for German team