📰 Breaking News: News Archive for March 2014 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 March
- World Cup prompted ex-Pope's resignation
- Porsche extends chief's contract for five years
- Moody's raises Germany outlook to stable
- Bayern's Müller sure of Bundesliga title win
- Socialists push Schulz for EU top job
02 March
- Merkel 'worried' over developments in Crimea
- Germany warns of 'new division of Europe'
03 March
- Berlin cable car to soar over city
- Third law firm attack victim dies
- Dog tax hits Berlin tourists
- Ten amazing places to warm up in March
- 50,000 Syrians apply for 5,000 asylum places
- Crowds hit streets for Rosenmontag parades
- Germany: 'Ukraine crisis worst since Berlin Wall'
- Flight experts probe deadly helicopter crash
- Police make 'sensational' cannabis find
- PhD studies in Germany: What you need to know
04 March
- Energy giant RWE lists first losses in 60 years
- Driver rams into fancy dress charity collectors
- German Paralympic team leaves for Sochi
- Parliament to tighten up spy service scrutiny
- Germany: 'No solution' in sight over Ukraine
- 'Putin is the dealer, Germany the junkie'
- What will Germans give up for Lent?
- Forbes list reveals Germany's richest people
- Headteacher in trouble for shouting 'Sieg Heil'
- Gay clergy win right to live with partners
05 March
- Sickly workers take extra 15 days off a year
- Merkel's grand coalition disappoints voters
- OAP takes wrong turn, gets lost for 20 hours
- Puppies too young to travel rescued from truck
- EU takes aim at soaraway German surplus
- Berlin woman killed by her own car
- Germany warns Russia, but coy on sanctions
- Germany's 14 weirdest town slogans
- One in three women experience violence
- Merkel allies turn anti-EU in beery rants
- Hassle-free tax preparation for Americans in Germany
06 March
- WWI site used to destroy Syrian chemical arms
- Crimea tries wooing tourists at Berlin fair
- German universities rise in reputation rankings
- Child porn scandal hits Catholic workers group
- Teen dies while 'train surfing' on Berlin S-Bahn
- Welcome to Germany: Land of one million jobs
- Student procrastinators pull mass all-nighter
- 'Germans work hard, let's give them a break'
- Third of Germans expect Ukraine-Russia war
- More young families under time pressure
07 March
- Highs of 20C forecast for weekend
- Lost German hiker lives off flies for two weeks
- World's biggest IT fair ready to boot up
- Hanseatic Unesco sites threatened by sea levels
- Fishermen find oldest message in a bottle
- Schumacher still in 'wake up phase' from coma
- Headless and limbless: Germany's best saints
- Germany tops Europe innovation list
- Cocaine cop: 1.5kg of drugs was for 'teaching'
- President tells Greece sorry for Nazi crimes
08 March
- Bayern boss Hoeneß prepares for tax trial
- Asylum-seeker influx strains German shelters
09 March
- Georgia avalanche kills German snowboarders
- Ukraine's Tymoshenko in Berlin hospital
- Travel firms tap into social networks via blogs
- German biathlete to learn doping fate end March
10 March
- Fans stick by Bayern boss despite jail threat
- Germany, UK team up for super fast internet
- German love of Russian gas 'limits' EU power
- Single parents suffer under tax rules
- 'Learning German gets you closer to people'
- 'Bundestag should be searched for bugs'
- 'We wanted to capture the other side of Berlin'
- Bayern boss: 'I was crazy but I'm no parasite'
11 March
- Battle to water down minimum wage
- Girl, 3, caught riding motorbike
- House blast kills four, leaves 15 injured
- Germany: Baltic states can count on Nato
- Iranian on Malaysia plane was going to Germany
- Will anyone vote for these two men?
- Strike threat hits Berlin's biggest hospital
- Bayern boss Hoeneß 'owed €27.2 million in tax'
- Germans learn to spend, spend, spend
- 'Pear and parmesan' is ice cream of the year
12 March
- Bayern Munich head up, Arsenal head out
- Gender pay gap hits working women
- Hundreds of fake IDs among asylum seekers
- Schumacher's family 'confident' he will wake
- Children, 11, taking crystal meth
- Mayor tries to ban sex party ship from lake
- Ten more untranslatable German words
- Left-wing leader calls for Crimea poll acceptance
- 'I'll make Catholic Church heard in Germany again'
- Cow injures two in escape from abattoir
13 March
- Removal men find live python in cupboard
- Lufthansa profits fall by 75 percent
- Merkel warns Russia of 'massive' damage
- Writer trades shopping for hunter-gathering
- German-Polish border checks to start again
- BMW and VW celebrate strong sales
- Woman in convertible showered in manure
- What's so great about... Düsseldorf?
- Bayern's Hoeneß gets jail for major tax fraud
- Rainy weekend to ruin early spring fever
14 March
- Prisoner tattoo stamps emerge at Auschwitz
- Law will restrict Balkan asylum seekers
- Business leaders attack coalition reforms
- City set to launch own domain name .berlin
- Bayern boss Uli Hoeneß resigns and heads to jail
- Crimea to spark WWIII? Germans 'don't care'
- How I enjoy the early German spring
- Porsche workers to get €8,000 each
- Four face charges for Bonn bomb attempt
- Gas blasts to polar bears - seven days in pics
15 March
- Bayern name Hopfner to succeed jailed Hoeneß
- Ai Weiwei asks China's Xi to visit Berlin show
16 March
- G7 may meet in London without Russia: report
- Bayern plan to welcome Hoeneß back after jail
- Tymoshenko urges hard line against Russia
17 March
- Hamburg and Bayern celebrate weekend wins
- Warn strikes set to hit public services this week
- Child dies in Rhine, rescuer also feared dead
- Armed robbery victim posts raid video online
- State accepts Hoeneß sentence
- German sausage price war wurst for farmers
- Boris Becker loses Spain home over unpaid bills
- Court throws out damage claims against Porsche
- Man jailed for killing wife, concreting her into wall
18 March
- Merkel 'impressed by Italian PM's package'
- Bundeswehr loses 32,000 bullets in break-in
- New Berlin airport 'four-percent ready'
- Germany fails to bridge gender pay gap
- Top German court: euro bailout fund is kosher
- 'Germany should moot Russian gas ban'
- Deportations rose in 2013 as asylum denied
- Merkel: Crimea grab 'against international law'
- Nine-year-old girl takes on bag thieves
- Maize lunch 'makes cow burps better for climate'
19 March
- Merkel, Obama condemn Russian Crimea annex
- Did Germany contribute to Paris smog?
- Madrid kick Schalke out of Champions League
- Ten ways you know it's spring in Germany
- Rolling Stones still set to rock Germany
- Allianz pays insurance on missing Malaysia jet
- Camels get the hump and run away from the circus
- A warm weekend should replace rainy gloom
- Man throws three kids and self from window
- Germany asks Russia for 'go' on observers
20 March
- Germans buy half their wine at Aldi and co
- Most depression patients get poor treatment
- Rental cap for busy areas draws closer
- East Germany in colour - everyday propaganda
- Merkel: we'll increase sanctions on Russia
- 'Hotties were always allowed in'
- Claim for carpet price error fails to fly
- Wildcats claw their way back from brink of doom
- Olympic champion Höfl-Riesch to retire
- What's so great about... Hamburg?
21 March
- Jewish family fails in Welfenschatz claim
- Germany tops the charts for asylum applications
- Mild winter benefits energy consumers
- A mousse fit for a king
- Ice cream to GDR farm chic - seven days in pics
- Steinmeier heads to Ukraine after EU talks
- Zoo trumpets fifth baby elephant success
- Native Americans ask museum to return scalps
- Bayern face Man United in Champions League
- Lufthansa pilots vote for imminent strike
- Norway gallery returns Matisse seized by Nazis
23 March
- Germany accuses Russia of Europe break up bid
- Russia slams Germany for halting arms deal
- Germany nabs Vatican-bound cocaine condoms
- Race is on in German intercity bus market
- Guardiola poised to win league in record time
- Merkel and Putin discuss Ukraine in phone call
24 March
- Submarine prepares to join hunt for flight MH370
- German trekker missing in Nepal for five weeks
- Snow returns to southern Germany
- Police struggle with far-left Berlin protest
- My path from India to German citizenship
- Flamingos beheaded at Frankfurt Zoo by fox
- Public sector strikes to sweep Germany
- Thief caught selling phone back to victim
- Football clubs say no to goal-line technology
- Sanctions on Russia could also hurt Germany
25 March
- Bid to give foreigners the vote fails
- Catholic Church launches child sex abuse probe
- German tourist killed by lightning
- Ex-generals: Bring back conscription
- Court: Politicians have too much power over TV
- German Erasmus students hit record high
- Bavaria plans online bureaucracy revolution
- Russia tests Germany's new foreign policy
- Police find corpse watching TV
- Chocolate doner mixes up cultures in Berlin
26 March
- Record-breaking Bayern Munich win league title
- Boy, 16, 'strangled neighbour to death'
- Brewery boss killed by avalanche in Canada
- 'Bling bishop' Tebartz-van Elst resigns
- Strikes to ground 600 flights on Thursday
- What's the coalition done in its first 100 days?
- 'Black people ban' at Berlin pub ignites tension
- 'Botched' care lowers Schumacher's chances
- Moving to Germany - 10 reasons to think twice
- Siemens 'to invest long-term in Russia'
27 March
- Merkel vows support for Korean reunification bid
- Leverkusen break losing streak with 3-1 win
- Study: third of German species under threat
- 'Unemployed EU citizens can be expelled'
- German airport WiFi charges are 'thievery'
- 'Bling bishop' blew €213,000 on a fish tank
- 600 flights grounded as strikes hit airports
- What's so great about... Munich?
- Passengers peak but train profits slump
- Why I'm butchering teddy bears
- Merkel hopes Russia sanctions are enough
28 March
- Woman, 71, jailed for stalking priest
- Court: Disabled woman must stop being so loud
- Germany agrees to expand dual citizenship
- Fire at family home kills two children
- Energy minister: No alternative to Russia gas
- Orgies and executions: It's mayhem in Münster
- China's President Xi arrives in Germany
- Strikes, an avalanche and Bayern's victory
- Lufthansa pilots to strike for three days
- Highs of 23C forecast for this weekend
29 March
- Germany and China rev up economic ties
- BMW to sink $1bn into US production expansion
- Hoeneß attends first game since conviction
30 March
- NSA carried out 300 reports on Merkel
- Germany to give military aid to Baltics: report
- A new 'silk road' linking Germany and China
31 March
- Merkel-Putin talks 'worth their weight in gold'
- Munich elects new centre-left mayor
- Two married couples die in canal car crash
- Amazon hit by fresh German strikes
- Child murderer, 46, jailed as a minor
- Nine job application buzzwords to avoid
- Anti-euro party turns anti-feminist
- A look inside Uli Hoeneß's Bavarian prison
- Police arrest three over radical Syrian links
- Lufthansa cancels 3,800 flights due to strike
- Minister likens Putin's Crimea moves to Hitler
- Shopkeeper refuses to put clocks forward