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

01 August
- Number of German residents with immigrant roots reaches record high
- More Germans fear climate change than terrorism, poll shows
- Authorities missed deadline to deport Hamburg attacker by one day: report
- 9 events you won't want to miss across Germany this August
02 August
- EU bank suspects VW took out loan of €400m to create cheat device
- Diesel at crossroads as Germany's car bosses, politicians meet
- Berlin starts controversial test of facial recognition cameras at train station
- Body of German missing for 30 years found on Swiss glacier
- What you should know about the 'dieselgate' scandal shaking up Germany's car industry
- 96-year-old 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' fit to serve sentence: prosecutors
- Berlin accuses Vietnam of kidnapping asylum seeker on German soil
- Hyped Berlin döner shop Mustafa's arriving in Munich
- 15-year-old camper killed by falling tree amid severe storm
- European court halts Germany's deportation of 'dangerous' Islamist suspect
- Syrian refugees accuse Germany of blocking family reunification
- Italy impounds German NGO rescue boat suspected of aiding illegal immigration
- German car bosses bid to head off diesel ban with software fix for 5 million cars
03 August
- How Berlin activists are turning Nazi hate graffiti into art
- Polish parliament mulls demand for Germany to pay WWII reparations
- German-born Nepalese girl makes emotional return after deportation
- 'Toxic eggs' surfacing in ever more German states, officials say
- Meet the Lexus-driving Vietnamese tycoon who was 'kidnapped' in Berlin
- 'No stag parties allowed': Bavarian bars crack down on wild partiers
04 August
- Aldi stops selling all eggs as insecticide scandal widens
- Man sentenced to life in prison for rape and murder of Chinese student
- What you should know about the 'toxic eggs' found in 12 German states
- Opinion: The fakers' little lies are eating our brains
- Lower Saxony set to ban Islamic face veils in schools
- Merkel's SPD rivals suffer fresh blow ahead of September election
- Two suspects arrested after explosion in shisha bar
06 August
- Belgium admits it kept quiet about 'tainted' eggs recalled in Germany
- Spaniards find El Dorado in Germany, but only temporarily
07 August
- Chinese tourists detained in Berlin for making Hitler salute
- Architects, refugees team up to build tiny houses in Berlin
- Two dead and three injured in fire at house for homeless and refugees
- Selfie, Fake News and Tablet added to German language in new dictionary
- Shisha bar owner suspected of staging explosion to get insurance money
- Millions of chickens face cull in 'tainted egg' health scandal
- Notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel dies in Germany
- Financial watchdog probing German carmakers' 'cartel'
08 August
- Merkel's SPD rivals face snap election in Volkswagen home state
- German ex-director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum dies aged 62
- Duisburg anti-litter campaign accused of racism over use of Turkish names
- Volkswagen offers cash incentives to trade in old diesel cars
- Two feared dead as small plane crashes into Lake Constance
- Twitter wouldn’t delete hateful tweets so this artist painted them outside its office
- Turkey allows German MPs to visit own troops
09 August
- Germany to deport Afghan refugees only in exceptional cases: report
- Iran-born AfD politician investigated over Islamophobia accusations
- Germany urges 'restraint' from North Korea and Trump
- Facebook to hire 500 workers in Essen to delete hate speech
- 'Europe must not follow Trump's military build-up logic': a chat with Merkel's main election rival
- France and Germany to tackle Airbnb's 'unacceptable' tax regime
10 August
- Here are the top 10 countries Germans immigrate to
- Gender 'pay gap' exists even among German children, study finds
- Lightning strikes set houses on fire in Bavaria and Saxony
- German chemical giant BASF to restrict use of pesticide in egg scandal
- Pregnant woman loses baby - and waits four hours in hospital for help
- Berlin v. San Francisco: Which is better for startups?
11 August
- Police hunt for murder suspect who left pieces of prostitute's body around Hamburg
- Woman flees with a stranger's baby 250 km away to Hanover
- Police launch child abuse investigation over photo of baby smoking
- Poland and Slovakia find 'tainted' eggs imported from Germany
- Merkel condemns 'verbal escalation' with North Korea after Trump tweets
- Irish travellers struggle to find campsite in Rhine region
12 August
- Merkel embarks on Germany's 'strangest' campaign
13 August
- German NGO halts migrant rescue operations off Libya
- Merkel rival slams car bosses in bid to revive campaign
14 August
- American tourist beaten up in Dresden after giving Nazi salute on street
- Police investigate car bombing in south Berlin
- Germany probes three Swiss spies on suspicion of snooping on tax authorities: report
- Merkel condemns 'disgusting' far-right violence in US
- Police blame communication error for misreporting 'mass brawl' among refugees
- How living in Berlin has changed me for life
- Sticky-fingered thieves steal €70,000 of chocolate in Hesse
- Is too much English spoken in Berlin restaurants?
15 August
- How Merkel and her main rival are competing to bash car industry in election race
- Nazi sect paedophile doctor handed 5-year jail term
- Renewed football violence as fans burn seats and banner at Berlin cup match
- Why Bavarians are busy hanging out bouquets on Mariä Himmelfahrt
- Air Berlin files for insolvency proceedings after months of disruptions
- This is what Germans really think about capitalism
- Far-right AfD set to become third largest party in German parliament, poll finds
- Five things you need to know after the Air Berlin insolvency
- Storms and heavy rain bring trains to halt at Frankfurt central station
16 August
- Italian mafia quadruples presence in Germany over less than decade
- German football: Which Bundesliga club should I support?
- Germany's first top-flight female ref amped to kick off first league match
- At least 28 million contaminated eggs delivered to Germany: report
- Put more women on your boards or we'll make you, government warns business
- 10 reasons why you should date (or even fall in love with) a German
- Turkey asks Berlin to look into sightings of 'top coup fugitive'
- Hamburg rated 10th most liveable city in the world
- Flixbus resurrects budget train service to take on might of Deutsche Bahn
- State authorities warn that letter ordering silence on refugee crimes is a fake
- Merkel opens up in interview with German YouTubers
17 August
- Germany is playing down scope of tainted egg scandal, state minister claims
- Far-right leader Petry set to lose immunity as perjury probe looms
- Donald Trump is making a 'huge mistake' in not condemning far-right, says Germany’s foreign minister
- Spy thriller set in Cold War Berlin to hit German theatres
- Insolvent Air Berlin says it's in talks with three potential buyers
- Munich knife killer 'not criminally culpable', German court rules
- Woman in Essen kicked off bus for eating a bread roll
- Prosecutors probe claims of Nazi salutes and pigs' heads at party for army special unit
18 August
- Angela Merkel condemns 'revolting attack' in Barcelona
- The Bundesliga kicks off again on Friday but can anyone stop Bayern Munich?
- Merkel: We won’t halt election rallies but we will mourn Spain attack victims
- This historic German town is falling apart in 'slow-motion catastrophe'
- New scientific study examines the sex habits of Germans
- 'Unprecedented interference' as Erdogan tells Turks in Germany not to vote for 'enemies of Turkey'
- Switzerland bans new Porsche SUVs over emissions cheating
- US burger giant Five Guys set to expand in Germany
19 August
- Turkey slams 'arrogant' German reaction to Erdogan poll call
20 August
- Spain releases German-Turkish writer sought by Ankara
- Erdogan warns German foreign minister to 'know your limits'
21 August
- Bavarian leader criticized after dropping demand for maximum number of refugees
- Bodyguard accidentally shoots gun during boarding at Berlin airport
- Air Berlin aims for September sale, as government denies favouring Lufthansa
- Hamburg supermarket empties shelves of foreign goods to make political point
- I won't go into business after politics like Schröder, Merkel pledges
- German football star wasn’t trafficked to Spain on jet-ski, Breitbart concedes
- Man dies after bringing a BBQ into his tent at music festival
- Merkel: trust must be 'restored' in diesel cars after emissions scandal
- Suspect in Finnish terror attack lived in Germany in late 2015
- Syrian refugees name their baby Angela Merkel
- Huge stash of Trump-shaped ecstasy pills seized in north Germany
22 August
- Arsonists set fire to two cars belonging to centre-left politician
- German state renames Justice Ministry to Ministry of Justice - at cost of €26,000
- Erdogan supporters have threatened my wife, German Foreign Minister reveals
- EasyJet in talks to take over large chunks of Air Berlin services: report
- Hanover zookeepers did not mistreat their elephants, prosecutors conclude
- 5 things you really should know about wine in Germany
- Germany welcomes US troop boost in Afghanistan, but won’t follow suit
23 August
- We must stop German Muslims from falling for Erdogan's propaganda, ministers say
- Facial recognition cameras at Berlin station are tricking volunteers, activists claim
- Man takes east German town to court for not crowning him Apple Queen
- 'Invasive' American red crayfish are being spotted daily in Berlin park
- Merkel finally opens up - by letting slip her potato soup secrets
- Germany brings all its gold back from Paris to quell conspiracy theories
- Germans are inheriting more now than ever before
- Judge (literally) sniffs out offender who attends court with weed hidden in sock
24 August
- How a kidnapping in a Berlin park has led to a diplomatic row between Germany and Vietnam
- Is Merkel sleepwalking her way to a fourth election victory?
- 'Germans who speak English in Berlin are provincial': Merkel ally attacks hipsters again
- Berlin is ‘hypocritical and dishonest’ on anti-Semitism, Jewish newspaper claims
- Germany is too slow in warning of unsafe food in half of all cases: Foodwatch
- These are the very longest words in the German language
- Integration of Muslims better in Germany than in rest of Europe: study
25 August
- Brexit set to bring 100,000 jobs to Frankfurt: study
- Germany books record budget surplus in first half of 2017
- Interior ministry bans far-left website linked to G20 violence
- Court rules that crunching another man’s nuts at work is sexual assault
- Mourning mother duck shuts down Autobahn for half hour after chicks are killed by car
- Introducing the Münster art exhibition that's rarer than a solar eclipse
- Chain-smoking ex-Chancellor’s golden cigarette case put up for auction
- Germans’ biggest concern still immigration, but poverty is catching up
26 August
- Former VW engineer gets 40 months in 'dieselgate' scandal
- Search for eight missing in Alps called off: Swiss police
27 August
- German, Italian airlines flying towards consolidation
- German woman is 16th victim of Barcelona attacks: local officials
- Merkel backs Libyan coastguard but warns against abuses
28 August
- Five German climbers killed in deadliest accident of Alpine season
- Germany and France plan to introduce new tax on internet giants
- Merkel 'out of touch' and 'aloof' ahead of election: Schulz
- Nurse suspected of 90 murders in 'Germany's worst post-war killing spree'
- Still unopened, Berlin Airport plans ambitious expansion
- These are the best places in Germany to send your kids to Kindergarten
- Outrage as AfD leader suggests 'dumping' political rival in Turkey
- Anti-terror raids launched in north Germany over 'murder plot against political left'
- Man admits to selling gun used in Munich mall shooting
- Isis terrorists are ‘in among us’, Syrian journalist warns
- German corporations team up against US tech heavyweights with new platform
29 August
- 'The EU should not allow the symbol of peace in Europe to become a symbol of waste'
- Merkel, Macron urge Russia and Ukraine to 'abide by commitments' and back ceasefire
- Dutchman handed severe sentence in first conviction over Hamburg G20 rioting
- Murder trial starts of far-right hunter who 'tried to kill as many cops as possible'
- Merkel: Germany 'can't stay silent' on rule of law in Poland
- Fun runners told to carry passports for Denmark-Germany border race
- Prosecutors seek 28 counts of attempted murder against Dortmund bus bomber
- Merkel calls for extension of EU border controls in Schengen area
- Germany stops sending refugees back to Hungary over rights record
- Goodbye summer! Temperatures predicted to plunge 15C by weekend
30 August
- Foreign Minister joins call to withdraw US nukes from Germany
- Federal prosecutors dismiss 1,000 complaints against Merkel for high treason
- Passengers left stranded at unopened airport during bomb disposal in north Berlin
- These 10 witty sayings prove Germans think everything revolves around beer
- Germany could lack 3 million skilled workers by 2030, study finds
- Germany has an environmental ‘blind spot’ when it comes to fishing, report argues
- Find out which German party you would vote for in election 2017
- 15 injured after truck spills nitric acid onto streets of south Berlin
- Largest ever evacuation set to take place in Frankfurt after WWII bomb found
- Majority of Germans oppose refugees reuniting with their families: survey
31 August
- Ryanair rules out Air Berlin bid, denouncing process as 'stitch-up'
- World's most powerful x-ray laser to be unveiled near Hamburg on Friday
- Pay gap also affects gay men in Germany, study reveals
- Berlin Airport to open at end of 2019 at the earliest: report
- Everything you need to know about WWII bomb disposals in Germany
- Case against Auschwitz medic to be thrown out due to ill health
- Foreign Minister puts foot in it by admitting own party won't win election
- How the real race in election 2017 is a viciously tight battle for third