📰 Breaking News: News Archive for April 2016 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 April
- Germany creates beer ‘scare labels’ to fight binge-drinking
- Central Germany gets April Fooled with heavy snowfall
- Comedian goes viral with 'Be Deutsch, Be Nice' video
- Broadcaster fees could jump to €19 per month: report
- April Fools' Day: Did The Local manage to trick you?
- Denmark extends ID checks at German border
- Foreign minister who helped bring down Berlin Wall dead
- Five of the best German April Fools' pranks
- Far-right vigilantes could face terror charges
02 April
- Germany to take first refugees from Turkey
03 April
- 'EU won't ignore Turkey human rights issues'
- Germany mulls North Africa refugee deals
04 April
- German paper unveils biggest leak in history
- Nine bikers killed in deadly spring weekend
- Police issue dispersal order to lairy squirrels
- EU 'too clunky to copy German anti-terror model'
- First Syrian refugees arrive under disputed Turkey deal
- First person ever jailed over public broadcaster fee
- German retiree 'fed to dog' by Russian wife in Mallorca
- Families outraged at tribute to suicidal Germanwings copilot
- Germany calls to 'turn up heat' on financial crimes
- Wind-powered lamps to light German island's streets
- Germans told 'stay away from windows' for Obama visit
05 April
- 'At least 28 German banks' linked to Panama firm
- German museum to display Nazi-era art hoard
- 'Germany should reinforce Austria-Italy border'
- Police force naked driver to trek to brothel on foot
- Two-thirds of Germans want end to open borders
- No trial for organizers of fatal 2010 Love Parade
- Inventor hopes to woo city-slicker hipsters with 'half-bike'
- Polar bear cub Lili leaps into public's hearts in Bremen
06 April
- Germany 'could lift border controls in May'
- Casino evacuated after penis ring causes terror alert
- F1 star Rosberg 'was paid through offshore firm'
- German pencil makers cash in on adult colouring craze
- Brandenburg faces wrath of Flying Spaghetti Monster
- German comedian could face jail for insulting Erdogan
- Eight things you never knew about the German Autobahn
- Police called in after 11-year-old brings live shell to school
- Syrian arrested in Germany on war crimes charges
- Bavarian town finally strips Hitler of honorary citizenship
07 April
- Minister accused of cover-up in Cologne sexual assaults
- Syrians in Germany 'want upper limit on refugees'
- Six hurt in 'anti-refugee' hotel arson attack
- Traffic cops in the sky: Germany goes after drones
- The new app that gives you money for driving well
- Sausage fight breaks out at Mercedes shareholder buffet
- Ex-Auschwitz guard dies a week before going on trial
- Chiefs at troubled Volkswagen 'refuse to forgo bonuses'
08 April
- Munich police release suspects after terror probe
- Germany hits 10-year-high in home-building
- Germany's asylum requests plummet 66% in March
- Smartphone zombies wreak havoc on cities
- Diesel cars could face ban from city centres
- French fashion label sells postal service shirt for €245
- 'More headlines to come': Panama papers reporters
- 'Hug a Brit to stop Brexit' Europeans urged
- 7 very German things you missed at 'German Grammys'
10 April
- German female executives quota 'is a paper tiger'
11 April
- Germany calls for allies in war on tax havens
- Refugee admits to swastika arson attack
- Nearly 6,000 refugee children missing in Germany
- Turkey's complaint could land German comedian in jail
- Munich man survives being rolled over by three trains
- 6 things you never knew linked Mexico and Germany
- Man on trial in Germany for New Year's sex assault
12 April
- Berlin Airport PR chief fired for calling project 'shit show’
- German soldiers 'may have joined Isis in Syria'
- Vegan hemp powder recalled on fears it gets kids high
- TV comic cancels show amid diplomatic row with Turkey
- Scandal-hit VW faces national outrage at mega-bonuses
- New 'see-through’ five-Euro coin unveiled in Munich
- Dürer collection tainted by Nazi past opens in Nuremberg
- Deutsche Bank cancels US growth plans over LGBT laws
- Train crash controller was playing phone game
13 April
- Calls grow to scrap law on insulting foreign leaders
- 'German should be language of mosques': conservatives
- Battle rages over using army to fight terror on German soil
- Swedish police hold terror suspect wanted in Germany
- Germany's most expensive luxury flat sold in Berlin
- Bavaria train crash claims 12th victim 2 months later
- Fundamentalist preacher faces terrorism charges
14 April
- Deportations rise sharply in Germany: report
- Families of crash victims sue suicide pilot's US school
- German Unity 'seesaw' monument cut due to costs
- Paris terrorist was eyeing German nuclear centre
- Killer nurse suspected in 24 more patient deaths
- New law to punish migrants who fail to integrate
- Gay penguins left in peace after breeding plans stall
- Journalists want ‘slanderous’ poem republished
- 7 breathtaking national parks you have to visit in Germany
- Legal opinion finds Erodgan 'smear poem' not criminal
15 April
- 5 practical things Brits abroad can do to keep UK in the EU
- Police raid Berlin mega-brothel linked to Hells Angels
- Spaghetti Monster church to keep legal case on the boil
- Inspectors faked safety checks at two nuclear plants
- German town fights terror with 'IS' ban on numberplates
- Sports halls empty as refugee integration enters new phase
- Merkel allows Erdogan's case against TV host to go ahead
- Swedish police chase German terror suspects
- Dutch queen’s ‘swastika’ coat raises eyebrows on state visit
- German spies imply Snowden leaked files for Russia
- Trial begins of man who stabbed Cologne mayor
16 April
- Panama Papers put German bank in spotlight: report
- France and Germany back Libyan unity government
17 April
- German comic in Erdogan satire row suspends TV show
- Europe can't take in millions: German ex-chancellor
- Germany and France hopeful for deal over Greece
- German healthcare 'losing billion euros a year to fraud'
18 April
- Germany 'would be biggest loser from Brexit’
- Police calm hipster frenzy at Berlin vegan restaurant
- Muslims label AfD 'Nazis' over plan to ban minarets
- Prince cover on Frankfurt train takes musicians viral
- Inspectors smuggle bomb parts through Cologne airport
- NGO seeks to integrate refugees, one friend at a time
- Man fishes for lost key, pulls out hand grenade instead
- Film company to rebuild Danish Girl's Dresden grave
19 April
- Elite anti-terror cops collar five far-right suspects
- Online 'hate speech' trial for Pegida founder
- Berlin to honour Bowie with plaque outside old flat
- Men cannot be forced to take fatherhood tests: top court
- German TV journalist refused entry to Turkey
- Apple 'could be building self-driving car in Berlin'
- Police free woman 'locked away for years by mother'
20 April
- Several German car makers ‘cheated’ on emissions
- Germany slips four places in press freedom rankings
- Four-fifths of Germans want Brits to stay in EU
- Anti-terror powers 'unconstitutional': top court
- Ostrich hit by car after activists 'free' it from circus
- Germany spars with Belgium over ageing nuclear plants
- Germany's most famous biscuit celebrates 125 years
21 April
- Ban on insulting world leaders could be axed immediately
- Fights break out at far-right march on Hitler's birthday
- Volkswagen to pay out billions to avoid court
- Over €100 billion laundered in Germany every year: report
- Just one-sixth of Germans want own monarchy back
- Dating apps 'to blame for rise in sexual diseases'
- Teen 'Salafists' arrested over bomb attack on Sikh temple
- The Germans who long for the life of an English gent
- Glass pane falls from Berlin skyscraper onto moving car
22 April
- Survey: Could Brits in Europe put the brakes on Brexit?
- Merkel party at weakest point since 2011
- Daimler shares fall as firm opens US emissions probe
- Munich students predict Game of Thrones deaths with app
- Unser Shakespeare: Germans' mad obsession with the Bard
- US air drop goes wrong as Humvees crash to earth
- Berlin craft scene's challenge to ancient beer purity law
- Car makers recall 630,000 vehicles over emissions
- City installs floor traffic lights for smartphone addicts
- Young man ‘surfs’ on train after forgetting bag inside
- Strikes to hit major German airports next Wednesday
- Hanover preps for President Obama's historic visit
- Merkel admits 'mistake' in satire poem affair
23 April
- German trade deal foes plan protest on eve of Obama visit
- Obama hails Merkel's 'courage' on migrants
24 April
- German trade deal foes protest on eve of Obama visit
- German orchestra accuses Turkey in 'genocide' row
- German populists want France excluded from eurozone
- Obama makes farewell visit to Germany on free trade push
25 April
- German scientists seek way to end live chick shredding
- 'Neo-Nazis are rooted in the heart of our society'
- Drunken brawl leaves Brit fighting for life in Munich
- Sharp fall in number of North African refugees
- Germany to build air base in Turkey for Isis campaign
- 'Keep Germany at heart of united Europe': Obama
- German swims from Europe to Africa in under 3 hours
26 April
- VW struggling to fix cheating diesel cars
- Lufthansa slashes 895 flights over Wednesday strike
- Merkel dismisses Bavaria's refugee letter 3 months later
- Prosecutors to interview comic over Erdogan poem
- 2016 German teens just want to be mainstream
- Obama and Merkel's 'special relationship' in pictures
- Computer virus found in Bavarian nuclear plant
27 April
- Gay vulture couple adopts egg in German zoo
- Germany opens files on Nazi paedophile sect in Chile
- Berlin’s new airport 'may never open’: planner
- Hundreds of flights cancelled as strikes hit airports
- Munich court tells lawyer he isn’t worth €8,000 an hour
- Berlin axes scandal-hit foreign spy chief
- Skull of St. Hedwig stolen from Frankfurt Cathedral
- Germany greens streets with €4,000 discount on every e-car
- Miss Germany tries to crack Hollywood via Latino soaps
28 April
- Neo-Nazis in dock over plan to bomb refugees
- Munich Oktoberfest to get first-ever entrance checks
- Germany ‘to block EU citizens from welfare for 5 years’
- Unemployment at historic low despite growth fears
- Germany, France want 'brake' on visa-free travel from Turkey
- Expats lose bid to scrap 15-year rule for EU referendum
- Top scientist faces probe after 3 children die in clinical trial
- Brussels threatens Berlin over Autobahn toll on foreigners
- Germany scratches head over Trump's zany foreign policy
- Suspect in Cologne sex assaults caught in Switzerland
- Parents blast principal who ordered kids to strip naked
29 April
- Drug deaths surged by 20 percent in 2015
- VW targets return to profit despite year of scandal
- Merkel party calls for state to spy on mosques
- Jet-setters rejoice: roaming price caps start Saturday
- Boys, 8, go on two-day robbery spree at toy store
- Woman dies after weeks-long hostage ordeal
- 'I am truly sorry' says 94-year old Auschwitz SS guard
- Cologne mayor tells court of being stabbed in neck
- German women battle for 'no means no' in rape law
30 April
- German public sector workers dispute settled
- 400 arrests outside German far-right AfD party congress
- Germany and Austria in talks to extend border controls