📰 Breaking News: News Archive for March 2017 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 March
- Berlin calls in Turkish envoy over jailed German journalist
- This is how much German military spending has grown over time
- One of these women could be Germany's first female astronaut
- Bag ban at Cologne cathedral leaves visitors seething
- Man fined €1,500 for peeing on Berlin Holocaust Memorial
- Germany worried about scaring Europe with big military budget
02 March
- German post service tests out new deliveries by 'cargo bike'
- Rights groups urge Germany to take in more refugees
- German spies investigate if Scientologists 'infiltrated' major museum
- Merkel heads to North Africa to talk business and refugees
- Syrian accused of mass murder arrested in Düsseldorf
- Over 300,000 poverty-hit German homes have power cut off each year
- Parents outraged as brothel adverts tossed out during kids' carnival
- The nine best events taking place across Germany this March
- What it's like to be a Republican in Germany with President Trump
- These are the most inventive places in Germany
- German cities halt pro-Erdogan rallies citing 'security reasons'
- Drink-driver stuns police by confessing to 25-year-old murder
- Outcry after Muslim students told not to 'pray provocatively' at school
- WATCH: German Netflix series dubbed 'the new but scarier' Stranger Things
03 March
- German poverty 'hits record high' despite low unemployment
- Turkey minister cancels Germany trip over rally ban
- Doctors rejoice as Germany kicks off medical marijuana prescriptions
- Bomb threat in south German town after Turkish rally cancelled
- '1,200 Europeans will die early' due to manipulated VW cars
- Germany rejected 27,000 foreigners' job offers last year: report
- Why Turkey is so furious with Germany… and not for the first time
- German President 'very worried' about Trump and US-EU legacy
- Merkel announces new migration deal on trip to Tunisia
- Merkel plans US meeting with Trump in mid-March
05 March
- Body of beheaded German hostage found: Philippines
- Takeover of German Opel comes after years of crisis
06 March
- Erdogan likens Germany's blocking rallies to Nazis
- Why Polish women are travelling to Germany for abortions
- Merkel calls for calm as row erupts over Erdogan's Nazi jibe
- This is what Germans really think about being naked in the sauna
- German drug store tycoon goes on trial for embezzling millions
- Rejoice! Munich gets go-ahead to cap Oktoberfest beer prices
- Why small German university towns are the best for foreign students
- ‘We are Nazis to the bitter end’: right-wing group on trial for terror
- Berlin's chaos airport sacks boss amid leadership struggle
07 March
- Fourth German city cancels Turkish rally, citing safety issues
- Germany no longer 'world's best country' due to terror attacks
- Police hunt suspect who killed 9-year-old and bragged about it online
- 'Achtung! Fake news': Germany rebuts Sweden travel warning
- Berlin polar bear cub Fritz dies, sending animal lovers into mourning
- Eight rules for making friends in Germany
- Germany demands more ambition from EU partners over post-Brexit future
- Court rejects Syrian refugee's hate speech case against Facebook
- Danish schoolboy finds buried German WW2 aircraft and pilot
- Berlin rebuffs Trump attempt to start trade talks, saying 'speak to EU'
- WikiLeaks claims US Frankfurt consulate is a 'CIA hacker base'
08 March
- Lawmakers to grill Merkel over role in VW's 'dieselgate'
- Defiant Turkish FM tells Germany not to lecture in Hamburg speech
- Police hunt nationwide for young man suspected of killing 9-year-old
- Six things to know about women’s rights in Germany
- Forgetful Bavarian couple leave $170,000 inheritance on plane
- How Turkey is using Germany to whip up nationalism at home
- ‘They ruined me’: Man ‘wrongly’ placed in special needs school for years sues
- These German jobs pay women the least compared to men
- Infamous kidnappers take secret of missing millions to grave
09 March
- Merkel: I learnt about VW 'dieselgate' scandal through media
- Police seize guns, shoot dog in raids on far-right Reichsbürger scene
- Police admit blunder led them to link neo-Nazi killer to child murder
- Denmark, Germany, Netherlands want to create ‘artificial power island’
- Thousands march in Women's Day demos in Germany
- Intelligence chief warns: Germany increasingly a target of Isis
- Travel turmoil expected as Berlin airport crews launch yet another strike
- WWII bomb find brings 'traffic chaos', mass evacuation to Düsseldorf
- Berlin Schönefeld chosen as the worst airport in the world
- AfD to fight for headscarf ban and mass deportations in election
- Child murder suspect arrested, as one more body found
- Five injured in 'axe attack' at Düsseldorf train station
10 March
- Düsseldorf axe attack suspect had 'history of mental illness'
- Hundreds of flights cancelled as strike starts at Berlin airports
- Herne child murder case: What we know and don't know
- What you need to know about the strikes crippling Berlin airports
- Anne Frank: her life after the diary ended
- Good news for non-EU scholars: easier study visas on the way
- WATCH: Tornado hits north Bavaria, damaging dozens of houses
- Germany passes law increasing video surveillance in public
- Düsseldorf's Brexit suicide float off to London to join pro-EU movement
- US army considers new base in northern Germany
- 'Ice cold' confession: Suspect admits to murders of child and friend
11 March
- Patients take flight as medical tourism booms
- German MPs reject declaring N.African states 'safe'
- VW pleads guilty in 'dieselgate' case, ending US case
- Terror threat that shut down Essen shopping mall was 'very concrete': police
- German child murderer confessed to second killing: police
12 March
- Prudent Merkel meets unpredictable Trump amid tense ties
- Turkish minister escorted from Rotterdam to Germany: mayor
- Passengers face more misery as new strike hits Berlin airports
- Germany frees one of two held over mall attack threat
- Germany hunts possible contacts of mall attack plotter
- Hertha star taking legal action over AfD Twitter pic
13 March
- How Merkel will try and win over Trump in Washington
- Turkey has 'no business here' campaigning in Germany: minister
- Hundreds of flights cut as Berlin airport strike extends to Wednesday
- Police free second suspect in Essen mall attack threat
- New report shows 'Berlin is growing but crime is not'
- Make Europe Great Again: Merkel's anti-Trump opponent rallies youth support
- Merkel's first meeting with Trump postponed due to snow storm
14 March
- Turkey accuses Merkel of 'supporting terrorists'
- What the EU Court ruling on headscarf bans means for Germany
- Sixth woman in Berlin attacked by cyclist with 'unknown liquid'
- Proposed law would fine Facebook up to €50 million for hate speech
- 300 officers raid mosque and suspected 'hotspot for radical Islamists'
- German state bans foreign officials campaigning amid Turkey row
- Union says 'no strikes until Sunday' after walkouts slash hundreds of flights
15 March
- Germany threatens to ban Turkish politicians from entering country
- Audi headquarters raided by police over emissions cheating scandal
- Munich woman lay dead in flat for two years before being found
- German media giant's account tweets out swastika in apparent Turkish hack
- Controversy after German town gifted giant Karl Marx statue by China
- Neo-Nazi group jailed for terror attack plans against refugees
- Germany is 'best country for international students', above UK
- Man who killed student Tugce to be deported to Serbia
- Snowden won’t be invited to Germany after all
- Self-proclaimed 'King of Germany' jailed for embezzling €1 million
16 March
- Berlin and Paris plan European centre to fight radicalism
- Greek militants claim parcel bomb sent to German ministry
- Man on trial for raping 90-year-old on way back from church
- Berlin researcher warns: selfies can lead to head lice
- Police storm Duisburg bank, as robbers steal huge pile of cash
- Six reasons why I never want to drive on the Autobahn again
- Eight in ten Germans think the EU needs to be reformed
- Germany and China to 'fight together' for free trade, says Merkel
17 March
- Germany vows legal action if Trump taxes imports
- Meeting with Trump to be 'one of Merkel's most important'
- Germany wants change to NATO two-percent budget goal
- Munich IS a super cheap place to rent… if you're a banker
- Fire crews identify drivers who blocked Autobahn rescue and insulted medics
- Hundreds of Munich residents evacuated for days after bomb find
- German happiness hits record high thanks to the Ossis
18 March
- Tensions show as Trump and Merkel meet for first time
- G20 ministers struggle to find consensus at Germany meeting
- Trump says Germany owes NATO 'vast sums'
19 March
- Turkey fumes over Kurdish rally in Frankfurt
- Schulz sets out his plan to challenge Merkel
- Trump 'did not refuse to shake Merkel's hand', says spokesperson
- 'Nazi measures': Erdogan launches scathing attack against Merkel
- German defence minister rejects Trump's claims, says Berlin owes no debt to NATO
20 March
- Merkel: Germany could ban Turkish campaign events after Nazi jibes
- Merkel calls for free trade with Japan after meeting with Trump
- Police urgently hunt Belgian man over murder of Berlin artist
- Unravelling the mystery of the Berlin acid attacker
- Braunschweig: The German city that deserves to be put on the map
- Steinmeier takes over from Gauck as Germany's President
- Turkey arrests three people 'linked to Berlin truck attack'
- Pet goldfish forming shoals and starving out Munich's native species
- Bochum hopes to be Germany's 'fastest city' for internet
21 March
- Germanwings victims' families slam push to absolve co-pilot
- IN PICS: 7 signs spring has already sprung in Germany
- How The Local helped this business school reach smart young global citizens
- Man dies in ticket machine explosion at Dortmund station
- Teen Islamists given six years' jail for Sikh temple bomb attack
- Mysterious mummified body discovered in Berlin Hindu temple
- Five things to know about prostitution in Germany
- Broken marriage: Why Germany and Turkey can’t stop fighting
22 March
- Germany set to deport two terror suspects born on its soil
- Turkey scraps rallies in Germany before vote as row rages
- How modern Germany persecuted gay men long after Nazi law
- Germany prepares to clear gay men convicted under Nazi-era law
- Four men convicted for group sex in Hamburg public sauna
- German wages rise strongly for third year in row
- Why on earth do these 8 weird German museums exist?
- WATCH: English fans turn downtown Dortmund into huge football pitch
- Election video game has German 'anti-Trump' run over real Trump
- Italian police capture mobster wanted over mafia massacre in Germany
- Two 'racist' men jailed for leaving beaten Pakistani on train tracks
23 March
- Germany 'stands resolutely' with Britain in terror fight: Merkel
- State vote in Saarland a first signal for Merkel election showdown
- Six boats go up in flames on inlet off Berlin’s Spree River
- Man sues Bayern Munich for €120,000 after English fan runs over him
- German press rules on mentioning criminal's ethnicity changed
- Germany announces apology plans for colonization in Namibia
- Six things to know about Saarland - Germany's little France
- German social order at risk due to gulf between rich and poor: report
24 March
- England fans condemned for singing 'German bombers' song in Dortmund
- German pilot from buried Denmark WW2 aircraft identified
- Co-pilot didn't crash Germanwings plane on purpose, father claims
- Body of missing Hamburg football boss 'probably' found in river
- German who 'attacks women' in Sao Paulo airport faces deportation
- German gummy bear maker Haribo to open first US factory
- Sunshine and warmth predicted across Germany for next week
- What the new 'foreigner toll' on the Autobahn will mean for you
- Germany to see record 'job boom' in 2017: report
- Six ways Germans could learn to deal with foreigners better
- Stuck in the 80s: 70 percent of German firms still use fax machines
- Are there holes in the official Germanwings crash story?
25 March
- UK absent as EU leaders seek unity on 60th birthday
- France and Germany tell UK to expect no Brexit favours
- Thousands of Berliners, Brits march in anti-Brexit protest
26 March
- East German boom town breaks populist, backward stereotypes
- German state votes in election-year test for Merkel
- Few foreigners in eastern Germany but xenophobia is rife
- Merkel's party wins German state vote by large margin
27 March
- Ivanka Trump to attend women's business summit in Berlin
- Porta potty almost floods Augsburg's historic old town
- Survey shows more Muslims help refugees in Germany than Christians
- Made in Germany rated most loved country brand worldwide
- €1 million gold coin stolen from iconic Berlin museum
- Pakistani jailed in Germany for spying for Iran
- Most Germans think Trump won't last four years in office
- How Saarland could show that the far-right AfD are finished
28 March
- Turks in Germany divided as voting begins in Erdogan referendum
- 'Cursed' north German sports club mourns two shock deaths
- 'I feel less British now': The Brits becoming German after Brexit
- Meet the matchmaker hooking up US soldiers with German women
- One in ten German firms to cut UK investments before Brexit: survey
- These twelve companies pay the highest wages in Germany
- Ground crews at Berlin airports reach pay deal to end strikes
- Social Democrats fight to pass gay marriage bill before election
- Germany launches probe into 'intolerable spying' by Turkey
29 March
- Will Brexit negotiators guarantee our rights to a full English breakfast?
- UK risks having 'same relationship to EU as Tunisia'
- Berlin's transit firm won't stop trolling this far-right AfD politician
- 'Almighty pressure': How Germans think Brexit talks should be handled
- These 10 apps are essential for making the most of Berlin
- Muslim parents take kids out of Berlin nursery after discovering teacher is gay
- World's tallest cable car to go into retirement after 50-year career
- This is what German men really think about gender equality
- Merkel rejects May's call for parallel talks on EU-UK ties
- Tenth of Hanover's population faces evacuation after bomb find
30 March
- German reporter held in Turkey appeals for release
- Domino’s Pizza to start robot delivery in Germany
- The British expat couple bringing an historic train station back to life
- Two German firms interested in building Trump’s border wall
- Munich taxi driver jailed for driving over pedestrian - twice
- Near record temperatures on Friday mean 'it's time to grill'
- Viral German supermarket ad reveals 'true' origins of Easter Bunny
- AfD leader Petry considers walking away from politics
- This is how much you should earn for your age in Germany
31 March
- How a street movement to save the EU is starting in Germany
- Sparkasse banks start charging own customers for withdrawals
- These are the German regions where the economy is really booming
- German unemployment hits record low despite Brexit gloom
- Explosion in family home in Dortmund rips apart block of flats
- Austria says it will take Germany to court over autobahn 'foreigner tolls'
- What you need to know when you download music in Germany
- Germany on collision course with US ahead of Nato summit