📰 Breaking News: News Archive for April 2018 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 April
- Everything that changes in Germany in April 2018
- Hundreds rally in Berlin calling for Puigdemont's release
02 April
- Migrants in Israel to resettle in Germany, Italy, Canada: Netanyahu
03 April
- ‘Poisonous for the reputation of bike sharing’: how cities are fighting back against badly parked bicycles
- German prosecutors apply for Puigdemont to be deported to Spain
- 90 per cent of Germany’s rivers below EU environmental standards
- Crash involving sightseeing bus in Hamburg leaves four badly injured
- How hearing Bach at Easter gave me a deeper appreciation for learning German
- Do you know Merkel's cabinet better than the Germans?
- Food bank in Essen reopens doors to migrants
04 April
- Storms set to hit Germany before weekend sunshine
- Police union calls for children to be taken away from anti-Semitic parents
- Police say DHL blackmailer has struck again after parcel bomb found in Berlin
- Mother and son found dead at home in Hanover after mauling by dog
- Berlin airports ranked as some of the worst in the world
- How the leader of the AfD once had a very different attitude to refugees
- How internationals have founded startups in Germany - and their advice for you
05 April
- Over 300,000 Germans potentially hit by Facebook data leak
- Almost every seventh child in German is dependent on welfare funds
- Number of Salafists in Germany has doubled since 2013
- Merkel to visit Trump in Washington at end of April: report
- Man on trial for defrauding bottle deposit machine of €1.2 million
- Campaigners in Berlin to hold fundraiser ahead of Irish abortion referendum
- Justice Minister Barley launches attack on Facebook
06 April
- Puigdemont freed on bail after German court ruling
- Woman jailed for 10 years for killing and freezing two babies
- Summer heat expected over weekend as mercury set to rise to 25C
- Six golden rules for creating the ideal German cover letter and résumé
- Russia has secret novichok programme, British ambassador to Berlin claims
- Germany’s new government already bogged down in spat over refugee reunions
- Erotic chain Beate Uhse to be reinvigorated by new investor
- Up to 10 million people could be hit by threatened radio shut down
- German car firms 'would be worst hit' by trade war between China and US
- Why is German public reluctant to back UK over ‘Russian’ nerve agent attack?
- Puigdemont walks free from German jail and demands dialogue
07 April
- Spain mulls appealing Germany's Puigdemont extradition ruling to EU court
- 'Day to remember' at Davis Cup as Spain draws level with Germany
- Three dead after 'disturbed' driver ploughs into crowd in Münster
- Bayern Munich win sixth straight German league title
08 April
- Ramming attack in Münster: what we know
- Rafa to the rescue? Nadal to face Germany's Zverev with Spain fate in his hands
- Police rule out 'political motive' in Münster van attack
- Crisis-hit Deutsche Bank to push out British CEO
- Nadal beats Zverev to set Spain up for Davis Cup decider with Germany
- After terror arrests, Berlin police step back from talk of half marathon plot
09 April
- Two deadly accidents mark start of motorbike season
- Summery t-shirt weather to continue for the next few days
- Passengers warned to expect serious delays at four German airports due to strikes
- The Local's meaty vegan guide to Berlin
- Lufthansa cancels 800 flights Tuesday in airport strikes across Germany
- AfD deputy leader under fire for blaming Merkel for Münster attack
- Everything you need to know about setting up a business in Germany
- Six men released after no evidence found of terror plot against Berlin half marathon
10 April
- German physics Nobel laureate Peter Grünberg dies
- Airports to childcare: what you need to know about the nationwide strikes
- Heidelberg sauna aims to put end to frolicking by taking lovers to court
- Family dog bites seven-month-old baby to death in Hesse
- New for Members: fewer adverts on The Local Germany
- Volkswagen sacks CEO Müller after less than 3 years in job: report
- How a visit home to Canada made me realize I couldn't move back for good
- Berlin takes lead: 2 million affordable apartments lacking in Germany
- Germany’s top court just made a landmark ruling that affects us all. Here’s how
11 April
- Vice or virtue? Berlin exhibition charts Germans' penny-pinching mania
- Millions affected as massive nationwide strikes continue into second day
- Burglaries drop by over 20 percent in a year, signalling major police success
- More storms to hit NRW after heavy rains flood streets and basements
- Head doctor arrested for killing unwitting woman with cocaine during sex
- German billionaire vanishes on Swiss Alps skiing trip
- Three gunshots 50 years ago that led to revolt on the streets of Germany
- Berlin has the fastest rising house prices in the world, study finds
- German billionaire missing in Swiss Alps: what we know so far
12 April
- 10 ways to pass yourself off as a true Berliner
- Nationwide strikes continue into third day, paralyzing public services
- Growth in Germany’s foreign population driven by eastern Europeans
- How Norwegian trees have revealed the story of Germany's biggest WWII battleship
- Man fatally stabs ex-wife and child at Hamburg U-Bahn station
- BMW opens campus for self-driving cars near Munich
- Germany ‘won't participate in possible military actions’ in Syria, says Merkel
- Berlin to change street names which honour brutal colonial past
- Growing number of Syrian refugees in Germany making 'reverse escape' to Turkey
- Thunderstorms to bring rare ‘blood rain’ to Germany
13 April
- Volkswagen appoints Herbert Diess as new CEO
- German guidelines for alcohol intake are too high, study argues
- Spargelzeit! Sunshine kicks off asparagus season in Germany
- Controversy as ‘anti-Semitic’ rappers win Germany’s top music award
- Hessen police shoot dead man in bakery rampage
- Stranger grabs child, jumps in front of train near Düsseldorf
- Head of iconic Berlin theatre steps down after left-wing protests
- German WW2 submarine wreckage found in seas off Denmark
- Everything you need to know as an American moving to Germany
- As a Brit, hearing Germans talk about Russia makes me want to bang my head off a wall
14 April
- Search called off for German retail billionaire lost in Alps
- Merkel backs 'necessary and appropriate' Syria strikes
15 April
- Götze running out of time to secure World Cup place
- German public sector unions to resume wage talks after strikes
- Russia-West 'alienation' is worrying: German president
16 April
- Over 3,000 years old: Bronze Age boat recovered from Lake Constance
- Teenager killed by maypole in Rhine region
- Viking Age treasures connected to legendary Danish king found on German island
- Suspect on the run after woman raped on train after Munich football match
- Rats and rubbish: police clear out house of horrors in Berlin
- Prosecutors charge 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard
- What is the digital German bank N26 that’s about to hit a million customers?
17 April
- Summer in April? Highs of up to 30C on the way for parts of Germany
- IN PICS: Asparagus season is in full swing across Germany
- I arrived in Berlin expecting a giddy European adventure. Instead I got depression
- All mixed up: 60 percent of plastic waste in Germany lands in wrong bin
- How Germany’s second biggest employer just got hit by a big rule change
- German investor confidence hits 5-year low on trade tensions
- Teenager beaten to death during fight in southern Bavaria
18 April
- South German theatre probed over promising free seats for swastika wearers
- Germany hits brakes on Macron's dreams for stronger Europe
- Berlin threatened with travel chaos after 500kg WWII bomb found at main station
- Federal police conduct ‘largest ever’ nationwide raid against human trafficking
- ‘Best deal in years’: 2.3 million public workers get big pay rise after weeks of strikes
- Headless doll provokes wide-scale investigation in Baden-Württemberg
- Porsche executives have offices raided as part of fraud investigation
- What you need to know about WWII bomb disposals in Germany
- Video of alleged anti-Semitic attack in central Berlin sparks outrage
- Karl Marx’s birth city sells ‘zero-euro’ bills for his 200th birthday
- 10 ways to optimize your application in the German job market
19 April
- Berlin killer who collected frozen victim's pension jailed for life
- Macron visits Merkel in bid to salvage EU reform plans
- What to know about the growing wolf population debate in Germany
- Majority of Germans want more protection from globalization: study
- How The Local can help recruit your dream colleague
- Germany to accept 10,000 refugees as part of EU-wide programme
- Hundreds queue across Germany for new special edition five-euro coin
- What you can learn about becoming German - from people who have done it
- What and where are the best and worst paid jobs in Germany?
20 April
- Top German court rules that online ad blockers are legal
- 'I haven't eaten all day': Growing up poor is a dead-end street in wealthy Germany
- The Local reaches 2,000 Members - will you be next?
- German states call for higher fines for reckless drivers and parking offenders
- Crackdown on dodgers of mandatory German broadcaster fees in May
- Oops! Deutsche Bank makes €28 billion transfer in error
- Ex-official in Bremen suspected of illegally approving 1,200 asylum cases
- Stuttgart police arrest top Porsche manager over diesel scandal
- 'A short bang': Berlin police give all-clear after WWII bomb defused near main station
- Neo-Nazis to gather for 'SS festival' on Hitler's birthday
21 April
- Two German tourists killed in Peru bus crash: police
22 April
- Finally home, Bundesbank's gold goes on show
- German Social Democrats elect Andrea Nahles as first female leader
23 April
- Merkel denounces new anti-Semitism from Arab refugees
- Crime in Germany drops by biggest margin in a quarter century: report
- Merkel hails free trade with Mexico ahead of tricky Washington visit
- Body found in Hamburg harbour 'highly likely' Scot missing since February
- Users should be able to message from Facebook to Twitter like with phone companies: German MP
- German wage growth outpacing rest of eurozone, study shows
- These are the companies that German graduates are most keen to work for
- Barenboim hands back Echo music award over rap anti-Semitism controversy
24 April
- Trial could shed light on violent ‘Cold War’ kidnapping in central Berlin park
- How Germany’s first African Book Festival is giving voice to questions of migration
- Rain and a drop in temperatures after summery weather in Germany
- Couple attack passengers on Berlin train for interrupting oral sex
- Emergency service teams assaulted repeatedly in Munich’s English Garden
- Jewish Council advises against wearing kippas in major German cities
25 April
- Amazon workers protest at Jeff Bezos prize ceremony in Berlin
- Mammoth neo-Nazi terror trial enters final phase in Munich
- German delegation visits Chilean commune over Nazi pedophile sect
- Where in Germany do all the British citizens live?
- German jails are at maximum capacity nationwide: report
- Germany to give an additional €1 billion in aid to Syria
- The world’s smallest global city: how Frankfurt is selling itself to Brexit bankers
- Over 35,000 unfilled vacancies for carers of the old and sick in Germany
- Germany’s main music awards to be abolished over win for ‘anti-Semitic’ rap album
- Crosses must be mounted in all state buildings, Bavaria orders
- German government predicts one million new jobs for next year
26 April
- Insults and aggression disturb small Berlin rally against anti-Semitism
- German asparagus 40 percent more expensive than a year ago
- Police probe threat to 'hammer 7,000 nails' into Bonn's cherry blossom trees
- 4,500 asylum cases to be re-examined after Bremen migration office scandal
- Germany expects US to impose steel and aluminium tariffs from May 1st
- Frankfurt’s new Five Guys may pull in the crowds. But it doesn’t do green sauce
- Small mite, big itch: scabies cases jump 60 percent in Germany
- Merkel flies to US for tough talks with Trump, hoping to prevent trade war
27 April
- Merkel in Washington to make Germany heard again
- Trump ally Richard Grenell confirmed as US ambassador to Germany
- Bavarian memorial to honour forced labourers of forgotten Nazi camp
- Uni in small German city to start teaching women how to masturbate
- 8 fantastic ways to get away from Munich for the day
- What you should know about Trump's new ambassador to Germany
- 21 endangered leeches confiscated from traveller at Hamburg Airport
28 April
- Can Monday's Bonn meet bring the Paris climate pact to life?
- Trump hosts 'extraordinary woman' Merkel for White House talks
- US envoy Pompeo targets Germany over NATO spending
- France and Germany pledge Eurozone reform plan by June
30 April
- Young boy found strangled to death at his babysitter’s home
- Hundreds of police calls after heavy thunderstorms hit western Germany
- Fiancee's ex-husband sues ex-Chancellor Schröder over 'affair'
- The Israeli intellectuals making Berlin more Hebrew than ever before
- Everything that changes in Germany in May 2018