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

01 April
- Post, Amazon face Easter strikes
- Kaiser to rule again from Berlin
- Seven lives claimed by Storm Niklas
- Strong economy shrinks debt as share of GDP
- Draft fracking law meets strong opposition
- Germany's best April Fools' jokes
- 'Cannibal cop' gets 8-year sentence
- April Fool! The Local's day in gags
- Lufthansa promises long-term crash help
- Berlin refugee groups speak out against arson
02 April
- Minister wants to ID Schengen passengers
- Haltern mourns its children lost in crash
- Uber complains to EU over national bans
- Steinmeier cancels Baltics trip for Iran talks
- AfD founder battles for party's soul
- Germanwings co-pilot searched suicide info
- Scientist speaks out against Euro war drones
- Black box from Germanwings crash deemed 'usable'
- Theatre director fired over Isis outburst
- Three German reporters suing Ferguson police
03 April
- Co-pilot accelerated plane into French Alps
- Emsland nuclear power plant taken offline
04 April
- Arson suspected in refugee shelter blaze
- Oil leak diverts Germanwings flight
05 April
- EU was aware of German air safety lapses
06 April
- Backstage drama rocks Berlin theatre scene
07 April
- Gabriel: Greek reparations claim 'stupid'
- State leader warns of widespread xenophobia
- Kurdish govt imprisons German Yazidi leader
- Pilots' doctors want stricter psych checks
- Unusual refugees flee to east Germany
- Oktoberfest beer prices shoot over €10
- Strong economy puts Germany in surplus
- Pegida name Dresden mayoral candidate
- Dear Mum: please enjoy this dead crocodile
08 April
- Russia shoots back at EU over Greek PM visit
- Police report record high in illegal migration
- Kindergarten walk-outs strand thousands of kids
- Banger-throwing fan hit with €30,000 fine
- British Museum director heads to Berlin
- Pensions office demands €4.6 quadrillion
- How to stay sane in asparagus season
- Police name Israeli murdered in Berlin
09 April
- Berlin to host new four-way Ukraine talks
- German spies report Isis losing control of oil
- Cat's bricked-in ordeal ends after 27 days
- Protesters enlist statue in 250kg dog poo stunt
- Head priest reports Pegida 'death threat'
- Student demands to see exam before taking it
- German troops quick off mark in Nato exercise
- OECD: Eurozone shows signs of recovery
- Woman faked plane crash link for free flights
10 April
- PKK apologises to Germany for violence
- 'King of Germany' loses right to drive
- Minimum wage after 100 days: the verdict
- German police happy to wear body cameras
- Boxer knocks back hired killer allegations
- Angela Merkel's 15 years at the top
- Germany has 'room to improve' on tolerance
11 April
- Arrest made after Israeli murdered in Berlin
- April 11th 1945: US Army reaches Buchenwald
12 April
- Lufthansa docs wanted treatment for co-pilot
- Here's why Germans go so completely crazy for asparagus
- Germany’s image a concern after asylum fire
- German to have quadruplets - at 65
13 April
- Local govt demands new deal on refugees
- Germany: Russia and Ukraine must cooperate
- Bomb alert grounds Germanwings Milan flight
- More than 6,000 have left Europe for Isis jihad: EU
- Nobel-winning author Günter Grass dies
- Germanwings memorial held in Barcelona
- Tourists help hotels start 2015 with a boom
- Modi vaunts India at world's biggest trade fair
- The smell of success? Now it's over the counter
- Germany falls behind on military spending
- Number of break-ins hits 16-year high
14 April
- 'Grave concern' about Ukraine in Berlin talks
- Wilders' Pegida speech is turnout flop
- Linke: Police instigated Frankfurt violence
- Hamburg battles over 'stove bonus' benefit
- Günter Grass: world is 'sleepwalking' into war
- Then and now: The site of the Alps plane crash
- Erfurt man arrested over false bomb threat
- Minister wants more of 'right' migrants
- Teacher faces police questions over Nazi song
15 April
- Afghan pupil stabbed to death in German school
- CDU leader: Germany can take more refugees
- Jihadist rapper threatens German Charlie Hebdo
- German is world's fourth most popular language
- Klopp confirms departure from Dortmund
- Lithuania pushes to buy German artillery
- Mario Draghi suffers anti-ECB confetti attack
- Germans stay traditional with 2014 baby names
- Transparency: Germany 'very poor' on lobbying
- Ministers want phone data stored for ten weeks
16 April
- Kidnapped girl found safe in Germany
- G7 throws weight behind German diplomacy
- Lorry drags old man and scooter 50 meters
- Schäuble rules out Greek bailout deal
- Police on nationwide hunt for speeders
- FC Bayern on brink of European exit
- 2015 growth forecast hiked to 2.1 percent
- 'German persistence' puts Merkel in Time 100
- Munich ice shop faces €10,000 wasp sting
- Soviet soldiers burst through 'Gates to Berlin'
- Mentally-ill man lost all teeth to new-age dentist
- Police grab 'Turkish Communists' in raids
17 April
- Germany honours Warsaw Uprising fighters
- Germany mourns victims of Alps plane crash
- Liberals: Data retention unconstitutional
- Deutsche Bahn flirts with drivers' strike deadline
- Bayern doctor quits in spat with Guardiola
- VW CEO survives despite departure rumours
- Interior Minister wants quicker deportations
- 'It hurts when Germans call Greece a failed state'
- Turkish Airlines: married pilots are safer pilots
18 April
- Auschwitz expert slams Nazi justice record
- EU-US trade talks prompt German ire
19 April
- Thousands protest EU-US trade talks
- Robots woo crowds at Hannover trade fair
20 April
- Union plans new rail strikes this week
- Merkel: We must stop migrant traffickers
- Expats face deadline to register for UK election
- Nuremberg man injures three in car attack
- Woman takes equal pay battle to highest court
- Meet new Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel
- Football fans abuse AfD head on train
- Holocaust survivors speak before Nazi trial
- Salafists giving kids martial arts lessons
- France ends operation to clear Alps crash debris
21 April
- Train drivers' strike to hit Wednesday, Thursday
- Arsonists attack Bundestag yet again
- Euro parliament leader warns of new shipwrecks
- How NHS reform will cost Brit expats dear
- Drugged teenager in high speed Munich chase
- Second World War still key to German identity
- Auschwitz defendant admits 'moral guilt'
- Stop mass deaths in the Mediterranean
- Merkel and Tsipras in new one-on-one meet
- Church fires woman for secret porn career
- Germany has second-highest surplus in EU
- Drug-related crimes hit ten-year high
- FC Bayern silence critics in style
22 April
- Train strikes bring travel misery to Germany
- G36 rifle 'has no future' in German army
- Could German language be forgotten in France?
- Ex-President: Germans right to fear Islam
- 'Trekker Willi' heads to Norway at 18 km/h
- Kids' school trip cancelled over wolf fears
- Government optimistic on economic growth
- Man Utd bid for Dortmund's Hummels
- South Germany has lowest EU unemployment
- Study reveals Germans' favourite emoji
23 April
- Train drivers hang on for second strike day
- Protesters bombard EU border boss with jam
- ECB says 'recovery is there' in eurozone
- Germans join call for Mediterranean action
- MP: Government failing on Armenian genocide
- Spanish king in 10-year affair with German
- Net company drags German spies to court
- Käthe Kollwitz's beauty in the face of adversity
- Deutsche Bank settles with US, UK for $2.5bn
- Craft craze brings variety to German brewing
- NSA had German spies target Euro allies
- Porto win costs Bayern €2 million
24 April
- Steinmeier: Armenia wasn't genocide
- EU leaders triple rescue mission funds
- Tugce accused admits to delivering fatal blow
- Merkel and Tsipras tight-lipped on Brussels talks
- Prosecutors want info on spies' help to US
- Göring's daughter fails in bid to win father's assets
- Germany's most polluted cities
- Schumacher Jr launches Formula race career
- Far left activists attack immigration office
25 April
- Deutsche Bank to sell Postbank
- Schumacher Jr lives up to his name
26 April
- VW patriarch Piëch resigns
- Pro-Kremlin bikers defy bans on Berlin ride
27 April
- Government knew of threat to Ukraine flights
- Merkel and Tsipras have 'positive' phone chat
- Bayern stroll to 25th Bundesliga title
- Public pitch in to find refugee home arsonists
- Munich toddler safe after late-night adventure
- Chancellor's office 'knew' of US economic spying
- Arms firms struggle to meet ethics mark
- Minster wows crowds with Denglisch
- Graduates desperate to work for car giants
- Regensburg diocese looks into abuse claims
28 April
- Deutsche Bank chief faces trial in Munich
- Kindergarten wage negotiations fail
- Merkel not yet 'Mutti' of the Twittersphere
- Germany's surrender order under the hammer
- Daimler hit with Greek corruption charges
- Police shoot man dead in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Germany should fear Brexit more than Grexit
- Germany may have 10m fewer people by 2060
- At least one German confirmed dead in Nepal
- Germany's 'other genocide' in Namibia
- Constitutional Court allows 'FCK CPS' sticker
- Merkel calls for EU to share refugee load
29 April
- Dortmund on target for Klopp's last hurrah
- Govt 'lied' to parliament about NSA spying
- Munich police save giant tortoise from train tracks
- Police 'capture escaped murderer in Cologne'
- German aid headed for quake epicentre
- Lufthansa 'scarred forever' by Alps crash
- Mystery vandal bricks up Hamburg train door
30 April
- Germany 'spied' on top French officials for US
- Five ways Germany falls short on gay rights
- Brit conman tricked rich women at airports
- Parents appeal over lost Nepal backpackers
- Germanwings co-pilot hid depression from FAA
- Police arrest couple over 'planned terror attack'
- Munich man hurls white mice at passersby
- The bitter end in the Führer's bunker
- Neo-Nazis plan 'to storm Reichstag' 70 years on