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

01 December
- Deutsche Bahn sues airlines for 'price fixing'
- Two girls saved by Tugce A. come forward
- E.ON creates spin-off in green energy revamp
- Cross-border raids net people traffickers
- Toll promises being broken: Greens
- BVB trainer to stay on despite growing crisis
- Using big data to make a difference
- Berlin balloon makes 850-km journey to Riga
- Germany second-biggest migrant destination
02 December
- US trial begins after German student shot
- Most-wanted Nazi dead, say Holocaust hunters
- 'Merkozy' to ride again at CDU conference
- Snowden journalist gets whistleblowing prize
- Thousands protest asylum policy in Dresden
- Lufthansa pilots' strike enters second day
- Firefighters free child from washing machine
- Was Helmut Schmidt an 'impeccable Nazi'?
- German troops to tip new Nato 'spearhead'
- Drunken art theft 'marked World Cup victory'
03 December
- Topless cathedral protest gets day in court
- Airbus offices searched over corruption fears
- More Lufthansa strikes coming this week
- Extortionist's bomb threats shut down city
- Free train wifi on track for 2016
- Cycling, insulation and less coal to fight CO2
- Swift justice promised as Tugce buried
- Qatar decision spurs call for IAAF reforms
- German Christmas cookies to bake now
- Police seek owner of bagged rabbit
04 December
- 'Carrot and stick' law toughens asylum rules
- Cockpit pilots flex their muscles again
- German doc alleges state doping in Russia
- Man dead after stabbing at Bavarian Jobcenter
- Christoph Waltz is Bond nemesis in 'Spectre'
- Tourism industry sees 'remarkable' growth
- How ordinary people smashed the Stasi
- Merkel speaks out against net neutrality
- Berlin 'too warm to hibernate' for marmots
05 December
- DFL votes for English goal line technology
- Nazi hunter says Brunner died 20 years ago
- Opel closes flagship Bochum factory
- Bundesbank halves 2015 growth forecasts
- Judge hands Isis fighter three-year sentence
- Bavaria fears for health over aluminium pretzels
- Linke politician takes reins in Thuringia
- A very Weltkrieg Christmas
- Germany rejects Putin's 'transparent' speech
- Ferris wheel's Christmas lights draw ire
06 December
- Dortmund climb off bottom with win
- Germany expect asylum numbers to increase
- Götze's winning World Cup boot nets fortune
07 December
- Ribery's 100th goal keeps Bayern ahead
- Merkel casts doubt on France, Italy reforms
- Merkel stands firm as ten year reign nears
08 December
- Germany still dependent on Russian energy
- Parliament bores ordinary people: study
- Amazon workers strike for better pay
- Germany asks for €89 bn of investment cash
- Greasing the wheels for Berlin's expats
- 'Plug-ugly' Honecker yacht fetches €130,000
- Armed 'robber' causes Berlin station chaos
- CSU retracts foot from mouth over immigrants
- Falcons to go jet set with Lufthansa
- Germany to lead UN Human Rights Council
- State hits back at bullies with stiff sentences
09 December
- Minister condemns Dresden anti-Islam demo
- US sues Deutsche Bank over tax scam
- Merkel draws battle lines for 2017 election
- WWII massacre: Case dropped against German
- Gerontologist braces for his big freeze
- Germany in the dock over climate action
- Arsonist trucker jailed for €3.5m revenge rampage
- Bored Robbie seeks 'job-job' in Germany
- Man calls police wanting a spot in prison
10 December
- Bulldozer havoc at concentration camp site
- SPD leaders hit back at Merkel's record
- Art dealer on trial for swindling Aldi heir
- Party like a German: 10 top tips
- Expo fetes Berliner who put 007 in space
- Teens put lid on binge drinking, report finds
- Cops stop licence-less driver after 46 years
- CIA tortured German it mistook for a terrorist
- Europe's smallest police precinct turns 100
- Two sentenced over death of plastic surgeon
11 December
- To Santa, care of Himmelpfort post office
- Weak demand for loans threatens ECB grief
- Germany wants to escalate Isis fight aid
- Germans love EU but question free movement
- 'And that's a good thing': goodbye Wowereit!
- Author and Holocaust survivor dies aged 91
- Economists predict stronger growth in 2015
- Rapeseed spill causes oil slick on A8
- Salesmen's sex orgies find home in museum
- Kaiser Wilhelm II faces pan-European war
12 December
- Prosecutors open new file on Oktoberfest attack
- Commerzbank to pay $1bn on Iran sanctions
- Suspected neo-Nazi fire attack on asylum home
- Germany backs calls for trade deal transparency
- World-famous Berlin street art blacked out
- 'Give in or else' top union warns rail chiefs
- Lichtgrenze tops German words of the year list
- German consumers still hot for nuclear power
- German killed in Afghan suicide attack
- BER boss wants to add another terminal
- Government in a twist over 'pinstriped Nazis'
13 December
- Queries flood in over Nazi-era art hoard
14 December
- India court blocks Bayer generic drug appeal
- Bayern romp clear while Dortmund lose again
- Police see rise in far right extremism: report
15 December
- Merkel, Hollande make Ukraine ceasefire call
- EU says road toll plans against the rules
- Germans eager to welcome Olympics: poll
- 'Relentlessly networking with cool people'
- Wetten Dass says tschüss with Ben Stiller
- Amazon workers kick off three-day strike
- Introducing The Local's brand new logo
- Merkel slams 'mud-slinging' anti-Islam demo
- BER airport chief to step down in 2015
- 'Benefits rebel' makes deal with city of Hamburg
- Malick's 'Knight of Cups' to premiere at Berlinale
- Bayern heads for match in war-torn Ukraine
16 December
- 93-year-old 'Auschwitz guard' to stand trial
- Cops fear clashes as anti-Islam demos grow
- Bayern blackmailer gets stiff jail term
- Little chance of white Christmas in Germany
- Search on for 'bullied' BER chief's successor
- Germans keenest on Euro elections: Google
- Clubs offer €1 for bust Berlin shopping mall
- Investors confident thanks to oil price plunge
- Autopsy on MP who criticized Russia
- Back of the net for Neuer's dream villa
17 December
- Bird flu scare prompts pre-Xmas turkey cull
- 'The Hoff' to star in NYE at Brandenburg Gate
- Greens and Left demand follow-up on US torture
- Germany's Homer Simpson is actually 85
- Cabinet agrees to send 100 army trainers to Iraq
- 'Reform business inheritance tax' court tells MPs
- 'Tear Down This Plaque' row over GDR sign
- Russia in clear over death of German MP
- Amazon strike extended to Saturday
- What does Dresden have against Muslims?
- 'Breakthrough' in train strike: union
18 December
- Over half of Christmas trees carry pesticides
- Cabinet agrees road toll for foreigners from 2016
- American guilty of killing Hamburg student
- Germany hails Obama's 'courage' over Cuba
- British and German troops relive Xmas truce
- Reus fined €540k for no driving licence
- Merkel says Russia sanctions 'unavoidable'
- Sunny outlook for business this winter
- 10,000 evacuated after WWII bomb find
- A Brandt name to relaunch a country
- 'Wrong but legal' claims child porn case ex-MP
19 December
- Ramelow bunks off his first Bundesrat sitting
- Tax take jumps 7.3 percent in November
- Turkish 'spies' arrested at Frankfurt airport
- Networks scramble to patch mobile security
- 'Dr Death' corpse museum gets go-ahead
- Angela, David...and Nigel
- Police nab Nuremberg station bomb hoaxer
- Abandoned themepark needs 14m says Berlin
- Ethics Council rejects assisted suicide law
20 December
- T-Mobile to pay $90 mn over US fraud charges
- Löw aims for Euro 2016 with new-look Germany
- German bank sues Ecclestone for €345mn
21 December
- Ecuador returns German money in oil valley spat
- Xenophobia thrives in shadow of Berlin towers
22 December
- Breakfast stumble costs Berlin giraffe her life
- Security tests find holes at Frankfurt airport
- Armed heist at Berlin's top department store
- Amazon pledge: Xmas pressies will arrive
- Good news for your Christmas overdraft
- Adidas sells three million World Cup shirts
- 'We have to take care of Isis victims': minister
- Reporter sacked over Pegida 'interview'
- Man tries to open plane door over Munich
- '50 Shades of Grey' to premiere in Berlin
23 December
- Berlin's FC Union swaps footy for carols
- Anti-Islam demo turnout up - but not by much
- Merkel to have a chilly Ukraine Christmas
- Wet, windy, stormy Christmas in store
- Terror alert 'higher than in decades'
- 'Don’t be skimpy in rewarding top talent'
- 'Cursed' Christmas Market catches fire
- Bertolt Brecht statue hit with potato salad
- Royal palace restored to glory after €4.5m refit
- Reward offered for €150k homing pigeon
24 December
- German president urges refugee compassion
25 December
- Germans hit back at anti-immigrant movement
26 December
- No Boxing Day football tradition for Germans
- Neuer cautious over Ballon d'Or prospects
- LG offices raided over suspected vandalism
27 December
- Germany warns Greece over reforms as left rises
28 December
- Merkel calls for truce talks over Ukraine crisis
- German-Turkish group against far-right talks
29 December
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- Allianz insured missing AirAsia plane
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- Merkel to meet Putin in January over Ukraine
- Spy malware found on government computer
- Refugees take up home in Berlin 'container town'
- Schäuble warns Greece: no alternative
- 18 Germans were on blazing ferry
30 December
- Hundreds stranded on faulty ICE train
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- Tugce's parents to found institute in her name
- 'Ben' and 'Emma' top baby names for 2014
- Polite Porsche driver wreaks collision havoc
- HoGeSa demo planned for Essen
- Where to celebrate Silvester 2014
- 4 dead, 40 injured, in horror coach crash
- 2014 was warmest year on record: official
- Berlin condemns Russian opposition sentences
31 December
- Merkel deplores new far-right group's 'hatred'
- Two Germans missing on New Zealand peak
- 'Greece has lost power to blackmail': German MP