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

01 March
- UK Pegida rally dwarfed by counter-demo
- Germany's Schäuble softens Greece tone
02 March
- Police wind down Bremen terror response
- Minister draws fire over wage transparency plan
- Sudeten Germans give up 'right to homeland'
- Court lets child porn MP Edathy off with fine
- Tsipras comments 'not the done thing': Germany
- Teachers set to walk out on Tuesday
- Prosecutors target Bergen-Belsen guard
- Munich's new tram bell upsets traditionalists
03 March
- 'Germany for Germans': Pegida to refugees
- Leaders hail Ukraine ceasefire progress
- Schumacher junior signs first racing contract
- Germans happy with being EU top dogs
- VIDEO: Hamburg district 'pees back' at drunks
- Man stands trial for poisoning baby daughter
- Obama to rally Europe over Russia sanctions
- 'Only person you have to please is the customer'
- Sexual harassment rife in workplaces: report
- Berlin nightlife booms as bat numbers quadruple
04 March
- Leaders warn Russia to honour Ukraine pact
- Children's charity rejects Edathy money
- German macaws go forth and multiply in Brazil
- NSA inquiry chief suffers phone tampering
- Laser attacks menace low-flying planes
- Bremen Islamic Centre sues police over raid
- Police catch Charlie Hebdo arson suspects
- Fake shrink tricks hospital for a year
- Cannabis lovers greet Green legalization plan
05 March
- Germans take in €360m of interest from Greece
- Energy firm sues EU over Brit nuclear plant
- Police arrest 'Isis fighter' at Düsseldorf airport
- German tourists face caning in Singapore
- Former Justice Minister caught drink-driving
- German women earn 21.6 percent less than men
- Erfurt considers replacing MPs with refugees
- Allies raped almost 1m Germans: academic
- Anger as EU keeps mobile roaming fees
- German cities among world's most livable
- ECB details anti-deflation cash splurge
06 March
- Experts predict heavy winter flu toll
- 650 Germans have joined Isis jihad: minister
- Just one in seven Germans trusts Russia
- Two men stand trial over star chef killing
- Germany gets surprise entry for Eurovision 2015
- MPs vote through women executive quota
- Challenging the German beer palate
- Gabriel Arab trip to sell solar panels, not panzers
- Rock fans cause 'mini earthquake' in Leipzig
- German photographer takes Hasselblad prize
07 March
- Child porn MP likely to be booted out of party
08 March
- Germany seeks to boost Saudi economic ties
09 March
- Merkel broaches shared past on Japan visit
- 'We'll send our refugees to Berlin': Greek minister
- First German killed in fight against Isis
- Robin Hood tax 'could bring in €45 billion'
- Mass data retention rumours spark outcry
- Local politicians feel far-right pressure
- Prof rejects Indian intern over 'rape problem'
- Paws for relief as hospital welcomes dogs
- Almost 1 in 3 German babies born by Caesarian
- Bringing positivity to German workplaces
10 March
- EU's poorest countries 'could join Schengen'
- Kraftwerk singer sues over same-name charger
- Leftwing activists attack Frankfurt Pegida demo
- Money 'not main motive' for German expats
- Coked-up casino winner 'caused motorway havoc'
- Romania plants German flag on France map
- LGBT activist: right wing 'totally irresponsible'
- Berlin police show KaDeWe robbery video
- Schäuble insists: Greece will answer to Troika
11 March
- Star architect dies day after winning top prize
- Poll: Hamburg keener on Olympics than Berlin
- Ground crew strike in Düsseldorf and Hannover
- Tsipras makes fresh war reparations demand
- 'Neo-Nazis' attack journalist after demo
- School evacuated after stink-bomb attack
- Merkel shuns Moscow WW2 commemoration
- Bavarian archaeologists find 250-year-old pretzel
- Internet enables new wave of football violence
- Energy giants feel pain of a changing market
- Eight thoughts to get you through to spring
12 March
- Germany and USA keep up Ukraine pressure
- Schäuble's harsh language angers Greece
- Stuttgart police shoot two after officer run over
- German universities leap up world table
- Schwarz-Rot-Gold: A nation's history in colour
- Family tried to force gay son to marry
- Measles doubter must pay doctor €100,000
- France shouldn't get easy ride: Bundesbank
- UN wants Europe to share Syria refugees
- Police grab 'Isis fighter' at Frankfurt airport
13 March
- McCain calls Germany a Russia 'appeaser'
- Majority of Germans in favour of 'Grexit'
- Court orders Islamic veil ban softened
- Poorest kids 'behind before starting school'
- Shameless east Germans love filming sex
- Berlin braces for Paddy's Day invasion
- Judges order food hygiene app binned
- Nazis bombed own cities for target practice
14 March
- Siemens signs '4 bn euro' deal with Egypt
15 March
- Merkel to open major IT fair with China
16 March
- China sets out hi-tech stall at Hanover's CeBiT
- Steinmeier promises Ukraine 'full support'
- Greece cashflow troubles 'insignificant': Varoufakis
- Meteor causes scare in southern Germany
- In pictures: Berlin goes green for Paddy's Day
- Pegida, hooligans and Salafists march at once
- Number of foreigners in Germany hits record high
- Arms exports fall by almost half in five years
- Suspect arrested in grisly murder of teen
- Employees feel workloads 'out of control'
- Merkel reaches out to defuse Greece tension
17 March
- 'We are all Hamburgers': De Maizière
- Wednesday strike hits 410 Lufthansa flights
- Schäuble loses cool in Greek war of words
- Germany joins China development bank
- Oktoberfest's missing 1.2m litres of beer
- Frankfurt police prepare for anti-austerity demo
- Islamic centre searched over 'Isis link'
- German troops slated for Lithuania exercises
- Half-naked man brings Berlin S-bahn to halt
18 March
- Pilots' strike grounds 750 Lufthansa flights
- Solar eclipse to disrupt German power system
- Liveblog: Blockupy anti-ECB demo in Frankfurt
- No 2015 German Grand Prix, says circuit boss
- OECD: Germany on positive economic trend
- Who are Blockupy and what do they want?
- Court bans Uber in Germany - again
- Bureaucrats' near miss with contaminated meat
- At least one German dead in Tunisia attack
19 March
- TV host faked doctoring of Varoufakis' finger
- Lufthansa slashes Friday flights
- Politicians close ranks on Blockupy violence
- Snowden appears at Hanover IT fair
- No quick fix for Greece in Brussels: Merkel
- No Germans killed in Tunisia attack
- 'Zoo' of exotic animals found in Bavaria
- Hundreds welcome Dutch royals in Lübeck
- Germany pledges €107m for Syrian refugees
- US 'threatened' Germany over Snowden asylum
- Berlin's unwanted migrants see funny side
- Bismarck is Germany's first Chancellor
20 March
- Berlin floats deal on Greek reparation claims
- Younger Germans happier than older ones
- Merkel secures Russia sanctions extension
- How to view the solar eclipse in Germany
- Merkel backs equal pay transparency law
- Government plans new elite anti-terror unit
- Germany's glimpse of the solar eclipse
- Strong economy boosts pension payouts
- Berlin man admits shooting child, 9
- German teen launches global feminist trend
21 March
- Lufthansa cancels half of long-haul, cargo flights
22 March
- ‘Two worlds collide’ as Tsipras visits Merkel
- Lufthansa services ‘back to normal’ as strike ends
- German tourist killed in shark attack in Egypt
23 March
- Police investigate new Bundestag fire attack
- Germany clamours for EU transport cash
- Merkel downplays Greek meeting hopes
- Google honours German maths pioneer
- Police hold two over Bielefeld bank robbery
- Germans report most harmful products in EU
- Critics sue to stop ECB bond-buying
- German economy 'on verge of boom'
- Getting the work-life balance right
24 March
- Hitler watercolour to go under hammer in US
- Greece wants to burst Euro stereotypes
- Coalition agrees final road toll changes
- Germanwings crash: What we know so far
- Germanwings plane crashes in French Alps
- Germany sees little change in road deaths
- Court demands more proof in NPD hearing
- Majority of Germans now trust in the Euro
- Jet plunged for eight minutes: Germanwings
- What caused the Germanwings crash in the French Alps?
25 March
- Merkel to pay respects at Airbus crash site
- Germanwings reinstates Wednesday flights
- 'Nothing as it was before' in stricken school
- Berliner freed after 25 years on death row
- German cops, lawyers join crash probe
- Germany mourns for 4U9525 victims
- Business confidence hits 8-month high
- 'Usable' audio recovered from plane's black box
- 'Space stone' brought back to Cologne
26 March
- Höwedes takes focus off football
- Merkel must be firm with Modi: Amnesty
- Ukraine refugees make tracks to Germany
- New minute of silence for Germanwings victims
- Interior ministry bans Salafist group
- What happened to pilots in Germanwings crash?
- What we know about the Germanwings co-pilot
- Can 'nightmare' of pilot suicide be prevented?
- Police search co-pilot's home in Germany
27 March
- Airlines agree two-person cockpit rule
- Co-pilot had 'serious' depressive episode
- Town flocks to mourn lost schoolchildren
- Bundesbank tough, public soft on Greece
- Germany urgently needs immigrants: study
- Varoufakis quells rumours of resignation
- Germanwings co-pilot 'hid illness' on crash day
- Bundestag passes 'foreigner toll' for roads
- Scientists aiming to redefine the kilogram
- Germanwings captain's compassion goes viral
- Germany to expand disability rights
- Germanwings co-pilot 'obsessed' with Alps
28 March
- Germany to hold April service for crash victims
- Crash co-pilot told ex 'all will know my name'
- Spectator killed in Nürburgring crash
29 March
- Ethiopia's Legese wins Berlin half marathon
- DNA from 78 crash victims found
30 March
- Germany grab vital win in Georgia
- Rail in north and east delayed by storms
- Lufthansa fear second black box won't be found
- Varoufakis begs for calm in war of words
- Düsseldorf police set up special 'Alps' unit
- Minister promises “shredding-free” eggs
- Gun maker denies problems with army rifles
- Prosecutor: co-pilot had suicidal tendencies
- Lufthansa questions 60th anniversary jubilee
- Energy prices drive return to inflation
31 March
- Germany, France, Italy want Euro drones
- Merkel urges Germans: Give Greece a chance
- Trabi project aims to electrify 'Ostalgia'
- Germanwings insurers plan €279m payout
- Unemployment at new post-unification low
- Doctors warn against snap crash reaction
- Lufthansa cancels 60th jubilee celebration
- Stuttgart worst city for traffic jams
- Storm Niklas kills at least three, stops trains
- Arsonists hit pro-refugee art project
- Video shows 'final moments' of plane crash