📰 Breaking News: News Archive for February 2015 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 February
- 'Stop bashing Germany,' Schulz warns Greek PM
- Greek FM calls for Berlin talks on debt deal
02 February
- Düsseldorf-born Patriot hoists Lombardi trophy
- AfD founder wins bid for leadership change
- Power outage leaves TV programme in the dark
- Knights assemble to do battle in Bernau
- Changing how you move, one box at a time
- Germany hits export surplus record in 2014
- Police shoot dead naked man with a knife
- Pegida offshoot set to demo next week
- Leipzig must pay families denied childcare
- Court decision could prompt migration reform
- Merkel calls for Hungary to protect civil rights
03 February
- Obama advisor denies plan for Ukraine weapons
- Germany plans new foreign fighters law
- Drugs chief wants easier access to cannabis
- Chef in dock for 400 counts of child abuse
- 'Wives can't refuse sex', imam tells Berlin mosque
- Freeze accounts of Greek tax dodgers: Gabriel
- Merkel, Jolie slog it out for 'Most admired'
- Prosecutors charge man over death of Tugce
- Greek charm offensive to hit Berlin and Frankfurt
- Far-right blight on Dresden commemoration
- Russia mulls new WWII reparations claim
04 February
- F1 boss 'trying' to save German Grand Prix
- Greens ask for electric car buyer allowance
- Five spots for Berlinale celeb-spotting
- 'Xenophobes' are one third of Pegida: study
- Greek finance minister calls ECB talks 'fruitful'
- Court finds that you need money to pay rent
- Neo-Nazis send journalists death notices
- Why most UK expats will shun general election
- Nine brilliant quotes about speaking German
- Prostitutes vow to resist sex work law
05 February
- Munich prosecutors charge female jihadist
- Football says goodbye to legendary coach
- 'No military solution to Ukraine' says Biden
- Pay pensioners to move out, says union head
- British spies tell German MPs to back off
- Merkel and Hollande to visit Kiev and Moscow
- Berlin counts 254 new cases of measles in 2015
- Germany to grow 1.5 percent in 2015: Brussels
- Roll out the red carpet: Berlinale begins tonight
- The complete guide to Berlinale's main line up
- German, Greek finance ministers butt heads
- Shepherds issued emergency wolf kit
- The German who built planes out of metal
06 February
- Merkel-Hollande visit 'gives hope for peace'
- Heads roll as teams battle relegation
- Germans love Grand Coalition government
- Siemens axe 7,800 jobs as part of €1-billion plan
- States fear drug drones flying into jails
- Pope's 'smack' approval draws ire in Germany
- Merkel makes Moscow trip 'to defend peace'
- Berlin welcomes baby orang-utan Rieke
- Health insurer wrongly claims woman dead
- Man loses driving license over passive pot
07 February
- Nazi war debt strains Greece-Germany ties
08 February
- Merkel: Ukraine peace bid 'uncertain'
- Bond star Seydoux joins Berlin female 'revolution'
- Dortmund down Freiburg to climb off bottom
09 February
- Emergency peace talks planned for Wednesday
- Race heats up for German Olympic bid spot
- Figures show 2014 was record year for exports
- Pegida offshoot fails to draw Dresden crowds
- Strike forces police to close Hamburg airport
- Stars shine in Berlinale weekend events
- Football club condemns fans' Nazi banners
- 'Something had to be done' says founder
- Vice-Chancellor rejects Greek reparations claim
- 'Speeding' emergency doctor can drive again
10 February
- East-West spy drama to get American debut
- Merkel warns US of threat to peace in Europe
- Over 1000 Germans face HSBC tax prosecutions
- Neo-Nazis arrested as Pegida peters out
- US adds German former rapper to terror list
- One masterpiece, 10 days, and 98,000 Legos
- DB to deter thieves with paint bombs
- Drunk passenger forces landing over bomb threat
- German 'Bling Bishop' lands new Vatican job
11 February
- Germany draws record number of tourists
- Greece refuses to bow to German pressure
- British tank crashes into family garden
- Germanwings pilots call for two day strike
- Merkel, Hollande make last-ditch ceasefire push
- Ex-prisoner sues Berlin for 'too small' jail cells
- 'Top Gear' reportedly cruising to German TV
- 25 percent more soldiers seek help with PTSD
- Dating sites to find just the right Valentine
- Munich to return €2.5M book trove to Naples
12 February
- Court frees mayor from fear of Nazi handshake
- Merkel greets 'glimmer of hope' for Ukraine
- Eurozone fails to reach Greece agreement
- Germans tail(gate) Swedes as best drivers
- Pilots' strike grounds 340 Germanwings flights
- MPs plan to decaffeinate teens with drink ban
- Mozart and reading keep ex-pope sharp: aide
- Burger King woos couch potatoes with delivery
- CDU angers Muslims with opposition to Koran
- One-way ticket to Mars is student's dream
13 February
- Hamburg student's killer jailed for 70 years
- Strong Q4 sparks economic boost for 2014
- Karneval revellers keep first responders busy
- A party that makes Oktoberfest look civilised
- Wenders takes Golden Bear for a lifetime in film
- Some very Denglisch Valentines
- Germany to close Yemen embassies
- US Air Force sends tank busters back to Germany
- Anti-Semitism group without Jews sparks row
14 February
- Expert tips on love and dating in Germany
- Germany marks 70 years since Dresden bombing
- Upstarts outshine vets ahead of Berlin awards
16 February
- SPD claims victory in Hamburg elections
- Schäuble 'very sceptical' of quick Greece deal
- Braunschweig cancels parade over threat
- Iran win at Berlinale a 'free speech triumph'
- Doctors say you should write your own sick note
- Deutsche Bahn rejects drivers' strike ultimatum
- 'Give it a try' says data company founder
- 'SS Guard' charged with 170,000 murders
17 February
- Merkel and Putin agree on ceasefire terms
- Pegida plans Dresden mayoral bid
- Hamburg police take on AfD poster vandals
- UNESCO criticizes gun club for snubbing Muslim
- MPs want free therapy for paedophiles
- Ministry under fire for €8.7bn helicopter order
- Troops tote broomsticks at Nato war games
18 February
- German reporter 'spy' arrested in Mozambique
- Police find 104 rabbits in Stuttgart flat
- Politician wants last call on late-night beers
- Schäuble rejects Greek bailout without reforms
- Germany and the seven deadly sins
- Government condemns Ukraine rebel advance
- 'Bomb' sent from Germany to Sweden
- Fearlessly Jewish on the streets of Munich
- Judge rules smoking senior can't be evicted
- Train drivers confirm new strikes
19 February
- Putin promises to pressure Ukraine rebels
- New high in asylum seeker expulsions
- Eviction doesn't scare Berlin Airbnb hosts
- Germany rejects Greek loan application
- Scientists find that ants have toilets too
- Shoah experts welcome Anne Frank TV drama
- 'Killer nurse' tells court he's sorry
- Police catch teen who stole island's only car
- Charity finds most Germans ever in poverty
20 February
- Merkel to make first Japan trip in seven years
- Academics to republish Mein Kampf in 2016
- Berlin U-Bahn attacker sets girls' hair on fire
- Bike-friendly Münster leaves cities in the dust
- Greek talks promise to be 'very difficult'
- Wolfgang Schäuble: Merkel's Euro bad cop
- Man goes viral with story of girlfriend hating car
- Merkel and Hollande cling to Minsk ceasefire
- Rosberg: I'm racing towards fatherhood
21 February
- Merkel and Pope Francis discuss Ukraine crisis
22 February
- German FM warns against escalation
23 February
- Grand Budapest Hotel, Citizenfour take Oscars
- Greece targets crooks in €7.3bn tax plan
- Ex-Rolls Royce exec takes over BER airport
- Measles kill toddler as Berlin school closes
- Business confidence rises in February: Ifo
- Women executive quota bill 'unconstitutional'
- Pegida decides Hitler selfie is no problem
- One fifth of Germans want revolution: report
- Deutsche Bahn brings drivers back to table
- The startup getting men properly dressed
24 February
- EU energy union plan meets Berlin resistance
- Eurozone agrees on Greek bailout extension
- Police raid biker club houses across Germany
- Strong economy makes for €18-billion surplus
- Russia threatens Ukraine before Paris meeting
- Heirs sue Germany over 'stolen' Nazi gold
- Infant death sparks measles jab debate
- Berlin rapper's stunt sets off homophobia row
25 February
- Schäuble starts selling Greek deal to MPs
- Police raid Luxembourg banks and lawyers
- Bremen MPs want €1,900 chairs for 'backache'
- Party for tenants as coalition agrees rent cap
- Treasure hunter faces embezzlement charges
- Attacks on train staff surge by 25 percent
- Ex-lawyer jailed again for Holocaust denial
- Merkel talks refugees, Ukraine with Swedish PM
- 'Fish mafia' jailed over 'sandwich war'
- Nine ways landlords and tenants fell out
26 February
- Army considers plan to field more tanks
- Consumer confidence highest since 2001
- BILD says 'NEIN' to Greece bailout extension
- Kafka's Metamorphosis: 100 years of perplexity
- German Jews warned off kippahs in Muslim areas
- Russia revives 'KGB methods' in Europe
- Bomb scare at Dortmund football stadium
- Nurse jailed for life for serial patient murders
- Spoof hails Varoufakis: puts 'hell' in 'Hellenica'
- France or Germany: The best country to work in?
- Consumer rights office slams Facebook
27 February
- Greece bailout passes with massive majority
- Muslim Council says Jewish fears 'justified'
- German soars into ski jump top spot
- Intersex person sues clinic for unnecessary op
- EU court deals blow to US Iraq objector's hopes
- Teachers to strike nationwide from Monday
- Man wins court battle over loud footsteps
28 February
- Ukraine: troop deaths 'serious breach' of truce
- Greek PM vows to 'start working hard' after vote