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

01 December
- German far-right AfD in trouble as end of Merkel era looms
- Berlin hails Bush as 'architect' of German unity
02 December
- Thousands march in Germany calling for end to coal power
- German police shut down concert over 'Sieg Heil' chants
03 December
- German carmakers to hold talks with Trump over tariffs
- 'I can win back AfD voters': CDU candidate hoping for Merkel's job
- How self-employed people in Germany will finally be able to afford health insurance
- Suspect arrested after body of teenager found at refugee shelter near Bonn
- Duisburg food bank destroyed in fire
- Man tries to fly from Düsseldorf airport with €870,000 in cash
- Turn on the bright lights: Christmas houses shine throughout Germany
- Germany sets aside €500 million for clean air initiative
04 December
- Germany teams up with France in bid to save EU digital tax proposal
- German airport security employees could soon strike over wage, training demands
- German pilots strike 'cornerstone' deal with Ryanair
- Quiz: How well do you know these German political figures?
- German philosopher Kant sparks tensions in Russian hometown
- How a German art group aims to name and shame far-right Chemnitz protesters
- Opinion: How Germany's higher ed model holds true to the real value of universities
- 'Beware, you're leaving the functioning part of Germany': Tübingen mayor on Berlin
- Merkel: German 'Mittelstand' mustn't get left behind in AI race
05 December
- Volkswagen says next generation of combustion engine cars to be its last
- Trump meets with German auto executives
- Germany looks beyond Merkel as party prepares to elect successor
- Can Merkel hold on as chancellor after stepping down as CDU chief?
- Germany among mafia raid hits in huge police operation
06 December
- What you need to know about Merkel's possible successors
- Stop and rock: New Elvis Presley traffic light flashes in Friedberg
- Tensions grip Merkel's CDU ahead of succession vote
- Did welcoming refugees usher in Merkel's final act?
- Pensions and healthcare: UK offers assurances to Brits in EU over no-deal Brexit
- VW says it can't rule out job cuts amid plans for electric new start
- VIDEO: Inside Munich's most famous Christmas market
- 'Merkel appreciates Feierabend': CDU Scot gives the inside scoop
- German project spotlights happiness through the eyes of a child
07 December
- End of an era: Merkel passes torch to new party leader
- IS-abused Yazidi women find sanctuary in Black Forest
- Amazon workers announce Christmas strike
- Deutsche Bahn price increases to kick in this weekend
- How Nazi-looted art is finding its way back to its owners
- Merkel stresses 'Christian, democratic values' as she quits party leadership
- Weekend Wanderlust: Strolling through the hills of Heidelberg
- 'What’s happening on Berlin streets can't be tolerated': Politicians float New Year's Eve fireworks ban
- Merkel loyalist wins CDU party vote to succeed her
- Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer: The woman behind the 'mini-Merkel' headlines
08 December
- Merkel to deliver Harvard commencement address
- Dortmund versus Schalke: What you need to know about the fiercest rivalry in German football
09 December
- 'The King' of the road: German town puts Elvis on traffic lights
- German farmers sue government over missed climate targets
10 December
- Dream team? What Merkel ally's party win means for the chancellor and the CDU
- 250 kg WWII bomb found near Düsseldorf
- Update: Rail strike causes chaos throughout Germany
- 'I'm afraid it can happen again': German-born Holocaust survivors in U.S. reflect on anti-Semitism today
- UK can cancel Brexit before March 29th without EU’s consent, ECJ rules
- RECAP: Brits in Europe vent anger after May postpones Brexit vote
11 December
- A break from the ordinary: Germany’s most unusual hotels
- Train passengers face more disruption after rail strike
- German weather service issues icy road warning on Tuesday
- UK seeks 'legally binding' Brexit promises
- Apple Pay finally launches in cash-loving Germany
- Chock-a-block! A ton of chocolate spills onto road in German city
- Juliette Binoche to head Berlin film festival jury
- The 'Singing Shrinks': How Berlin's psychological professionals are dealing with stress
- Putin's Stasi ID card found in Dresden archive
- 'No way to change' Brexit deal, says Merkel after May visit
12 December
- German-French border controls tightened as search for Christmas market shooter continues
- German police accidentally storm 88-year-old woman's home in hunt for gang
- Update: Strasbourg gunman, previously jailed in Germany, said to have screamed 'Allahu Akbar'
- Rolls-Royce to switch work to Germany over Brexit
- Merkel still has 'hope' for an orderly Brexit
- Germany softens firing rules to lure banks fleeing Brexit
- Strasbourg suspect: a violent criminal on terror watchlist
13 December
- Berlin-based Syrian refugee who saved lives shocked at Greek detention
- German bakery chain sued for selling bread on a Sunday
- German compulsory broadcast fee is legal, ECJ rules
- How Brexit is fuelling stress and anxiety for vulnerable Brits in Europe
- German court suspends trial of ex-SS death camp guard
- Germany opens probe against Strasbourg attack suspect
- Berlin inaugurates new addition to UNESCO-listed Museum Island
- What you need to know about the abortion law battle that divides Germany
- Strasbourg gunman Cherif Chekatt shot dead by French police
14 December
- Three women seriously injured after being stabbed in Nuremberg
- Germany integrating migrants quickly, according to business chief
- Third gender option for birth certificates approved in Bundestag
- Berlin the latest German city to experiment with going car free
- No evidence of terrorist motive in Cologne hostage drama
- How Germany invented Christmas as we know it
15 December
- German railway reaches pay deal with main union
16 December
- German football captain's father dies after 2-1 win
- German IT watchdog says 'no evidence' of Huawei spying
- Germany to tighten rules on foreign takeovers: report
17 December
- German police probed for forming far-right group, death threats
- Merkel's whip urges action to rein in 'fake news' bots on social media sites
- Amazon workers in Germany strike in lead up to Christmas
- Man arrested in connection with knife attacks on three women in Nuremberg
- German word of the day: Die Funklochrepublik
- Brexit planning: What you need to know about Germany's plans for a no-deal
- Germany agrees compensation for Kindertransport refugees
- Tip of the week: Your guide to visiting German Christmas markets
18 December
- How Berlin's crime clans are targeting refugees: Special report
- Where to next? Join The Local’s new travel group on Facebook
- German word of the day: Die Ankerzentren
- AfD fails in court bid against Merkel's refugee policy
- Recipe: Three seasonal twists on classic Bavarian Kipferl cookies
- German court jails far-right activist who sold guns online
- German automakers denounce 'unrealistic' EU emissions targets
19 December
- 'Historic day' as Germany takes step forward in relaxing rules for foreign workers
- End of an era as Germany's last black coal mine closes
- How Berlin is marking the 2nd anniversary of the Christmas market terror attack
- How Germany will shut down its last black coal mine
- With eye on China, Germany toughens rules for foreign takeovers
- No-deal Brexit: Brits in Europe furious over EU's new contingency plan
- 'More than just a sausage': German Currywurst Museum closing after 10 years
- Spiegel star reporter 'faked stories' for years
20 December
- Doctor practices should be open later, on weekends: German health insurance
- How the unlikely team of CDU and Greens have reunited in Hesse
- 'Coal, beer, football': German clubs honour last mine
- Germany warns that Trump's Syria pullout could hurt fight against IS
- German astronaut lands safely back on Earth Thursday
- Qualcomm wins Apple case, could lead to iPhone ban in Germany: court
- How German diesel bans have ignited a debate about dirty tricks and dodgy money
- German court told to retry Rwandan convicted of war crimes
- Santa analysis: Claus and Europe feel Brexit pinch, as will UK's Christmas
- Security reinforced at airports in western Germany: police
- How a group of Brits took up a struggle for millions of their co-citizens: Part One
21 December
- Update: Germany shutters last black coal mine
- Germans turn to 'medibus' as doctors desert villages
- In wake of Strasbourg attack, experts warn of Islamist radicalization threat in German prisons
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- German policeman seriously hurt as radical left storms AfD event
- New sources reveal true extent of Der Spiegel forgery scandal
- Weekend Wanderlust: From communism to Christmas, tracing history in Chemnitz
- Study shows the tenuous link between foreigners, refugees and criminality
- Spiegel apologizes in cover story on faked news scandal
23 December
- ‘I’m no Mother Teresa’: Juan Moreno on how he broke Germany’s biggest media scandal
- Ribery double fires Bayern up to second in Bundesliga
- Spiegel to file criminal complaint against cheating reporter
24 December
- How to make the German version of egg nog
- Germany's board games guru says happy to lose
- German word of the day: Die Weihnachtsgans
26 December
- These German children's songs bring tears to my eyes
27 December
- Trump surprises troops with stopover in Ramstein, western Germany
- German police probe curious case of 9-year-old's unwelcome Christmas gifts
- Task force established to tackle child benefit fraud in Germany
- German military looks to recruit in other EU nations
- Government calls upon diesel car manufacturers to up their game in 2019
- Quiz: How well do you know Brexit?
- Minimum wage to rise in 2019
28 December
- Twenty years since its introduction, the Euro remains on a fragile footing
- Ben and Emma Germany's most popular names in 2018
- Diesel, deadlines and deposit bottles: Everything that's set to change in Germany in 2019
- Berlin sunniest, Frankfurt warmest in Germany's hottest year on record
- German IS woman let 'slave' girl, 5, die of thirst: Prosecutors
29 December
- Spiegel suspends two editors after fake news scandal
- Macron, Merkel urge 'full' Ukraine ceasefire ahead of planned truce 
- Polish court fines German broadcaster ZDF for WWII TV series  
- German inflation slows in December
- Flights suspended at Hanover airport after car on runway
30 December
- German police seize 850kg firework stash
31 December
- Year in review: The biggest stories from Germany in 2018
- Merkel says Germany must fight for 'our convictions'