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

01 July
- Embattled Merkel draws up new measures to tackle migration
- Fans and Germany stars say Löw should remain head coach
- Germany demands explanation from Turkey over school closure
- Moment of truth for Merkel as rebels weigh migration deals
- War on plastic leaves manufacturers clutching at straws
- German interior minister unhappy with Merkel's EU migration deal
- German interior minister offers to resign in migration showdown with Merkel
02 July
- Seehofer delays resignation, gives Merkel 3-day deadline
- 11 events not to be missed this July in Germany
- Renewable energy production in Germany reaches new high
- Everything that changes in Germany in July 2018
- The week's weather: sun across Germany but storms expected in south
- What you need to know about the conflict paralyzing German politics
- How a small alternative festival has grown to take over Munich
03 July
- Coalition crisis over? Merkel and Seehofer reach late night deal on migrants
- Austria announces plan to 'protect border' after controversial German migrant deal
- 10,000 residents evacuated from central Potsdam after WWII bomb discovery
- Diplomat arrested in Bavaria on suspicion of aiding planned terror attack
- Löw to stay on as Germany coach after World Cup humiliation
- Quiz: How well do you really know Berlin?
- Five things to know about the asylum deal struck by Merkel and Seehofer
- Suspect in murder of Susanna F. alleged to have raped another child
04 July
- Only surviving member of murderous neo-Nazi trio proclaims innocence
- Fried chicken: bird catches fire on rail wire and sets field ablaze
- Don’t turn car tariff conflict into ‘real trade war’, Merkel warns Trump
- Nine of the most profound things ever said in German
- ‘You remain a very high priority’: a letter to Brits from the UK ambassador
- Why the Social Democrats might still scupper Merkel’s migration deal
- Where do most break-ins occur in Germany and why are they going down?
- Are people from certain countries more likely to be denied German student visas?
05 July
- Nurse jailed after using voodoo threat to traffick women to Germany
- Report: Cologne man arrested over alleged deadly poison attack plot 'had been planning his escape'
- Stormy weather and fires cause mayhem throughout Germany
- After border controls showdown, Merkel hosts anti-migrant Hungarian leader Orban
- Migration row continues to overshadow Bundestag debates
06 July
- German coalition parties agree tougher policy on migration
- White House has no plans to pull US troops out of Germany
- Chinese spy on Bundestag through social media info purchased from German politicians: report
- 10 fascinating things to see in Potsdam
- Why every country should get on board with the German Feierabend
- Munich school group assaulted by 15-strong teenage gang in Berlin's Kreuzberg
- Germany seeks arrest of alleged accomplice in Christmas market attack
- Bloodbath narrowly avoided as driver attacks pedestrians at seaside resort in Germany
- Controversial German author takes Random House to court after it axes his book on Islam
07 July
- Two Germans turn instant millionaires after splitting €90M Euro lotto prize
08 July
- Thousands march in Germany to protest EU refugee policy
- German police arrest 10 in alleged antisemitic attack in Berlin park
09 July
- 'Scapegoat' Özil should quit German team, says father
- Report: Seehofer wrote controversial Brexit letter without government approval
- New Chinese battery factory electrifies German e-car revolution
- Goslar woman calls police on man for peeing off balcony above
- Quiz: Can you match these German landmarks to their city?
- Beloved overnight trains to come back on track in Germany
10 July
- NSU verdict approaches: who is woman at centre of neo-Nazi terror trial?
- Nationalist Turkish biker group banned in Germany
- Berlin police left stumped by identity of unconscious jogger
- Three in four Germans say immigration policies are negligently handled
11 July
- After years of house arrest, widow of Chinese Nobel dissident arrives in Berlin
- Neo-Nazi terror verdict: Zschäpe found guilty of ten murders
- Merkel fires back at Trump: Germany makes independent decisions
- Germany holds Iran 'spy' on bomb plot charges
- Afghan deported from Germany commits suicide, leading to call for Seehofer to quit
- Almost half of Germans want US army to leave the country
- Stuttgart to bring in city-wide diesel ban at start of next year
- Trump insists he has 'very, very good' relationship with Merkel
12 July
- Update: parents can access dead daughter's Facebook, German court rules
- Germany aims for migration deal with Italy by end of July
- 10 summer poems to make you fall in love with the German language
- German charged over making Nazi memorial in French field
- Remembering the time Brits turned sleepy spa town Baden-Baden into Germany's party capital
- How living in Germany turned me into an athlete
- Police punch Israeli academic in face after mistaking him for anti-Semite
- German Turks warn of racism in anger following World Cup flop
- The ambitious plan to turn Berlin’s central canal into a giant swimming pool
- Jet breaking sound barrier worries residents of Nuremberg
13 July
- Update: German Foreign Minister warns Trump wilfully damaging western security
- 'Sprightly' 103-year-old Berlin woman fends off intruders with cane
- Berlin police solve unknown jogger enigma after neighbour tip off
- Update: Court rules to bring deported 'bin Laden bodyguard' back to Germany
- Top ten fellowships in Germany for ambitious English speakers
14 July
- EU probes Alstom, Siemens rail merger
15 July
- After scoring dream goal for Germany, what happened to Mario Götze?
- Ryanair flight makes emergency landing in Germany
- Germany opens Opel probe in 'dieselgate' scandal
- Germany tells Italy it will take 50 migrants from Frontex ships
16 July
- Update: Bodies found of fruit pickers drowned in Elbe river
- Tourists charged with stealing bricks from Auschwitz memorial
- Heavy storms to hit southern Germany this week
- Nearly two thirds of voters think Seehofer 'intolerable'
- Germans celebrate first Wimbledon victory in over 20 years
- Scandal grows over 'unlawful' deportation of alleged bin Laden bodyguard
17 July
- German Amazon employees strike for better pay, health conditions
- AfD youth wing furious over Berlin pride parade ban
- 94-year-old Israeli recreates his German childhood in miniature
- German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp faces 'aggressive restructuring' after bosses quit
- Police investigating after far-right crowd shout to 'sink' refugee rescue boat
- Environment group sues German government over nitrate threat
18 July
- Compulsory broadcaster fee is legal, Germany's highest court rules
- Fires and drought pose risks in North-Rhine Westphalia
- NSU weapon supplier released from prison
- German bill to cut asylum seekers from North Africa, Georgia
- German heat record of the year expected Friday
- Greece to process 1,500 asylum requests from Germany
- Getting kids to eat 16kg of chocolate to win football isn’t sporting, MPs tell Nutella
- Quiz: Can you figure out what these untranslatable German words mean?
- One in three German companies can’t fill their training programmes: study
19 July
- Wrongfully deported Afghan to return to Germany, says interior ministry
- Mannheim to elect Germany's first 'night mayor'
- One in six Germans can't afford a holiday: study
- Berlin police confiscate 77 properties connected to crime family
- The unexpected things cemeteries can teach you about Germany
- Why Ikea won’t let you return a bashed-up sofa any more
20 July
- Bonn residents don kippahs in solidarity with Jewish attack victim
- Heatwave on the horizon: temperatures in Germany set to rise
- 'Good for all' that Trump, Putin plan to meet again: Merkel
- German congregations shrink as church goers die out
- Are North African countries 'safe' for deportees from Germany?
- Update: Man behind assault with knife on Lübeck bus in custody
- Ten words that sound prettier in German than in English
21 July
- Germany drops sanctions on Turkey, relaxes travel advice
22 July
- Özil defends controversial picture with Turkish President Erdogan
- Germany will take in 50 Syrian White Helmet rescuers
23 July
- Update: Özil quits Germany side after 'racism' as Turkey applauds
- Update: Fire attack at Berlin station described as 'brutal murder attempt'
- German firefighters arrive in Sweden to fight scathing flames
- 'A night of hell': 75 years since the Hamburg firestorm
- Hunt warns no Brexit deal could harm German ties for 'a generation'
- Five key dates in the Mesut Özil saga
- German football association rejects Özil's racism claims
- Footballers should be coached on politics as well as the game, expert says
24 July
- Italy reassures Germany by pledging to accept migrants rescued at sea
- Heatwave hits Germany, and it's only getting warmer
- Germany arrests wife in foiled 'biological attack' plot
- Europe won't give in to threats by Donald Trump, says Heiko Maas
- As Germany swelters, breweries run out of beer bottles
- Erdogan praises Özil's decision and says his treatment was unacceptable
- 12 unmissable events this August in Germany
- Celebrating the 40th Berlin CSD: Moments of pride across Germany
- Merkel meets Russia's army general over Syria, Ukraine
25 July
- Temperatures in Germany to reach up to 36 degrees Wednesday
- Ryanair flights to and from Germany cancelled
- Puigdemont to return to Belgium from Germany
- 10 must-see UNESCO World Heritage Sites in eastern Germany
- Expat in Germany? You're probably guilty of one of these social blunders
- Seehofer at fault in Özil affair, says Green Party leader
- Should Germany be scared of forest fires?
- Germany jails Vietnamese man who aided Cold War-style abduction
26 July
- German ministers hail trade announcement from Juncker and Trump
- Survey: One in three Germans thinks sex with friends is okay
- Turkey arrests German national over alleged PKK propaganda
- Germany accumulates more packaging waste per capita than any country in the EU
- DFB president Grindel admits to mistakes in Özil affair
- Bayern's James Rodriguez becomes latest footballer on Spanish taxman's hit-list
- An A-Z guide of my time in Germany
- Everything that changes in Germany in August 2018
27 July
- Facebook and Youtube publish figures on usage of 'hate speech law'
- 50 hectare forest fire breaks out near Berlin
- Mofis and moonlight: Your guide to the total lunar eclipse in Germany
- Trump 'has no strategy' says German defence minister
- German companies increasingly 'coming out' with LGBTI employees
- Sharing stories of everyday racism, #MeTwo takes off in Germany
- Sparkasse to take on Google Pay with new app
28 July
- 'Not on my watch': Main Thyssenkrupp shareholder opposes group break-up
29 July
- Record drought grips Germany's breadbasket
- Transgender Syrian Katia finds refuge in Berlin
- Munich airport cancels 200 flights after intruder alert
- VW ex-boss Winterkorn in tax evasion probe: report
30 July
- Heatwave could lead to rising food prices, farmers warn
- German politicians divided over possible Erdogan visit
- Beer sales soar in scorching World Cup summer
- Where to find naked relief from the blistering summer heat
- German pilots to join wave of Ryanair strikes
- The potato eaters have become couch potatoes, study shows
- Münster van rampage claims fifth victim four months later
- Five crimes that expats are bound to commit in Germany
- Six deaths in 24 hours as Germany suffers spate of swimming accidents
31 July
- Germany cracks down on Amazon and Ebay sales tax cheats
- Children hospitalised after air-conditioning fails in bus
- How a cosmetics bag left thousands of passengers in the lurch at Munich Airport
- Alleged neo-Nazi acquitted over bomb attack on immigrants 18 years ago
- Lufthansa shares soar on better than expected profits
- Tuesday smashes year’s heat record as heatwave set to continue