📰 Breaking News: News Archive for June 2019 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 June
- Price growth slows as German inflation tumbles
02 June
- Greens top German poll for first time
- Threat of German government collapse looms as chief of Merkel's junior coalition partner resigns
03 June
- Crisis talks as Merkel's coalition suffers new blow
- Heavy storms hit western Germany following heat wave
- Four die in swimming accidents across Germany
- Special offer for Members (or their employers): Free ad on The Local Jobs
- New novel gives weight to being a Jewish expat in Berlin
- German word of the day: Kater
- Where does Germany's crisis-hit coalition go from here?
04 June
- Germany's Interior Minister rules out 'unthinkable' bid to host 2036 Olympics
- Politician in Hesse killed with shot to the head
- Postage costs set to spike in Germany
- Who is Germany's 'most prolific post-war serial killer'?
- Fatal Rhine accident triggers warning for swimmers
- 'Gambled away trust': German industry blasts Merkel coalition
- Here are the German cities where drivers spend most time stuck in traffic
05 June
- Tortoise triggers police operation while crossing road in Cologne
- Seven unmissable events in Germany in June 2019
- Seven people injured after two Flixbus accidents in Germany
- Update: Germany rejects new Greek demand for war payments
- Explained: How Germany plans to fight its drastic shortage of care workers
- 10 things you need to know about German weddings
- Top ten events to celebrate Germany's holiday weekend
- Number of 'Blue Card' holders on the rise in Germany
- VIDEO: Tornado rips through western German city
06 June
- UPDATE: Germany's serial killer nurse handed life sentence for 85 murders
- Missed chances: How Germany's killer nurse got away with 85 murders
- Brandenburg dubbed 'hotspot of Europe' as extreme weather continues
- Stormy weather in Germany moves eastwards
- 'Ja, ich will’: What it's like to get married in Germany
- Travel in Germany: The best secluded hangouts to visit this summer
07 June
- Update: Cologne couple in court over 'biological bomb plot'
- Will Germany soon have its first Green chancellor?
- Europe & You: Boris our 'best chance to stop Brexit', EU Green Cards and cash for residency appointments
- Berlin considers freezing rental prices for five years
- German stars call on voters to shun far-right AfD in 'Görliwood'
- Germany slams online hate posts about murdered pro-migrant politician
08 June
- What Germany’s new controversial immigration laws mean for foreign workers
- Özil marries in Istanbul, with Erdogan as best man
09 June
- Collision sinks historic German ship after months-long costly renovation
10 June
- How travelling by train in Germany is set to improve
- Far-right rally after tensions flare up in Chemnitz
- Did Angela Merkel really tell Jeremy Hunt she would be open to renegotiating Brexit deal?
- Climate activists use small boats to blockade cruise ship in German harbour
- German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas urges Iran not to quit nuclear deal
11 June
- IN PICTURES: Giant hailstones hit Munich as storms continue across Germany
- German supermarket chain Aldi set to charge for fruit and veg bags
- German phrase of the day: Auf der Nase herumtanzen
- Quiz: How well do you know your German sayings?
- Thunderstorms and heat wave forecast for Germany
- 'Homosexuality is not an illness': Germany plans to ban conversion therapy
- Britons in Europe denied vote in EU elections urged to help legal campaign
- Extinction Rebellion protesters chain themselves to Merkel's chancellery
- Germany's killer nurse appeals life sentence for 85 murders
- How German artist Ernst Busch fought fascism through songwriting
12 June
- Travel chaos after thunderstorms and rain lash eastern Germany
- Will fines for electric scooter riders in German cities improve safety?
- Far-right AfD becomes 'strongest force in state of Brandenburg' for first time
- Eastern German population dips to lowest level in 114 years
- The 13 types of Americans you meet in Germany
- Nearly 10,000 affected by double WWII bomb disposal near Berlin
13 June
- 'Fronleichnam': Why do 8 German states have a holiday on Thursday?
- Injuries at wedding as more storms hit Germany
- Germany raises €6.5 billion to bring superfast 5G countrywide
- Germany allows slaughter of male chicks to continue
- How a giant volcano led a German to create the world's first bike
14 June
- A portrait of Görlitz, the city that could elect Germany's first AfD mayor
- Mourners gather in Hesse for funeral of murdered CDU politician
- Why it's a myth you need to know German to get a job
- How a new technology is fighting workplace discrimination in Germany
- Europe & You: An interesting new Brexit poll and what's Switzerland's problem with the EU?
- Deutsche Bahn to stop using cancer-linked pesticide on its tracks
- German court fines two doctors for 'advertising' abortion
- Discovery of WWII bomb in central Berlin sparks evacuation
- Weekend Wanderlust: Past meets present in picturesque Passau
15 June
- Berlin Jewish Museum head quits after Israel boycott tweet
17 June
- Update: Political link suspected in German pro-migrant politician's murder
- Far-right AfD fails to seize first mayoral seat in Germany
- Dane becomes first foreigner elected mayor of major German city
- German phrase of the day: Fix und fertig
- How a June 1953 uprising continues to shape the German mentality
- Everything you need to know about exploring Germany by train
- Far-right motive suspected in German pro-migrant politician's murder
- Are Germans really rude or just avoiding politeness overload?
18 June
- Berlin poised to freeze rent prices for five years
- How activists are battling German food waste with illegal dumpster diving
- Why this German city plans to make public transport free
- 'Foreigner toll' on German Autobahn network ruled illegal by EU court
- Fears of far-right resurgence in Germany after murder of politician
- Merkel blames dehydration for trembling spell
- In graphs: How gentrification has changed Berlin
- Berlin opts to freeze rental prices for five years
- Ten must-see German films of past and present
19 June
- 'Generation climate' to occupy huge German coal mine
- Siemens to cut 1,400 jobs in Germany
- Door of iconic Berlin techno club Tresor moves to new museum
- German pools cut opening hours amid lifeguard shortage
- Adidas loses EU court battle over 'three stripe' design
- Far-right 'hounding' led to politician's murder: German ruling party chief
- Eight signs summer has arrived in Germany
- Brexit: Why won't the EU act to protect the rights of Britons in Europe?
20 June
- Germany plans to allow drivers to ride motorbikes without need to take test
- Here's where Germany's top universities stand in new global ranking
- Aldi jokes about shopping 'panic day' before German public holiday
- Pro-migrant German mayors receive death threats
- German cabin crew union threatens major Lufthansa summer strikes
- More stormy weather to strike eastern and southern Germany
- Weekend Wanderlust: From water to wine in the Rhineland's beautiful Boppard
- German word of the day: Das Weichei
- Are these the 10 most German words you can find?
21 June
- 'We are unstoppable': Climate activists and pupils rally against German coal mine
- Photo of the Day: The squirrel who got stuck in a German manhole cover
- High speed train hits concrete slabs in northern Germany in suspected sabotage
- German word of the day: Das Sitzfleisch
- Revealed: Germany's most expensive (and cheapest) cities for public transport
- EXPLAINED: How to secure permanent residency in Germany
- New Zealanders: 'Germans think we are crazy for moving here from paradise’
23 June
- Climate activists storm lignite mine in Germany
- Could Germany's CDU enter a tie-up with the populist AfD?
24 June
- Germany faces 'major challenges' to stop far-right violence: Merkel
- German word of the day: Der Scheinriese
- Heatwave in Germany: Temperatures of 40C forecast
- Which German companies want to hire foreigners?
- East German workers push for same reduced hours as west
- Suspected WWII bomb blast causes crater in German field
- Two army Eurofighter jets collide in northern Germany
- Merkel's CDU warns against alliance with far-right AfD
25 June
- 2,500 evacuated following find of WWII bombs near Frankfurt
- Locals in German town buy all the beer in protest against neo-Nazis
- How to keep cool during Germany's heatwave
- Germany orders drivers to slow down on Autobahns over fears roads will 'blow up' in heat
- BMW vows to speed up electric car rollout
- 'Durchzug is not harmful!': Red Cross tells Germans to leave their fans on and windows open
- Berliner Schnauze: The 'rude' German attitude foreigners could learn from
26 June
- 38 injured by high levels of chlorine at Hesse swimming pool
- German word of the day: Digga
- 'BlaBlaBus': Fresh competition for Flixbus takes to the road in Germany
- Neo-Nazi suspect 'admits' to pro-migrant politician murder
- Photo of the Day: The naked moped rider stopped by German police
- Heatwave in Germany: Row breaks out over topless sunbathing in Munich
- 'Things are complicated': Merkel ready to compromise on EU Commission chief
- 'Cyber-grooming': Germany toughens law on online predators
- Germany records its hottest June temperature
27 June
- 10 events you can't miss in July 2019 in Germany
- Update: Two more arrested in Germany over far-right murder of pro-migrant politician
- Merkel seen trembling in public for second time in less than two weeks
- Trial begins for 'largest child abuse scandal in Germany history'
- Nearly half of Ford's European job cuts will be in Germany
- Chemical giant BASF to slash 3,000 jobs in Germany
- Suspects of Germany's 'biggest child sexual abuse case' confess
28 June
- No room in Germany? Far-right AfD politicians to meet in Poland
- German government insists Merkel is 'very active and healthy'
- 'Hate has no place here': 10,000 rally in Kassel against far-right violence
- Police smash Germany's biggest online drug market
- German word of the day: Stinksauer
- Brexit limbo: How Brits across Germany are trying to secure their futures
- Weekend Wanderlust: 10 unique reasons Hanover is worth visiting
- Everything that changes in Germany in July 2019
- Climate activists form human chain around German parliament
29 June
- Polish hotel cancels rooms for German far-right MPs
- Germany bakes in record June temperatures
30 June
- Sweden into World Cup semis after ending German hoodoo
- France, Spain to get reprieve from heatwave but Germany swelters on