📰 Breaking News: News Archive for March 2021 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 March
- Germany's hairdressers reopen after months of shutdown
- Majority of Germans 'in favour of relaxing lockdown measures'
- From hair salons to hardware shops: What's allowed to reopen from Monday in Baden-Württemberg?
- 'Deeply unfair': France and Germany struggle to sell AstraZeneca vaccine safety
- 'I look normal again': German residents rejoice as hairdressers reopen
- Facebook News set to launch in Germany in May
- 'Green pass': European Commission to propose EU-wide vaccine passports for summer
- German word of the day: Der Blitzfrühling
- What can we expect from Germany's plans to ease lockdown?
02 March
- Berlin gentrification takes spotlight in new film by actor Daniel Brühl
- Bavaria and Saxony push for new vaccine strategy amid worries over Czech border
- Eight online events not to miss in Germany in March 2021
- German unemployment rate rises for first time since June
- German government proposes easing some Covid-19 measures from Monday
- How Germany is betting on rapid Covid-19 tests to ease shutdown
- German word of the day: Der Drahtesel
- Have your say: Should Germany introduce a Covid-19 vaccine passport?
03 March
- These are the dates you need to know for Germany's 'super election year'
- ANALYSIS: Merkel faces mounting pressure to relax Germany's Covid-19 shutdown
- Germany tells EU its border restrictions will remain in place
- Germany's far-right AfD 'placed under surveillance'
- Is Germany set to reopen public life earlier than planned?
- Germany to fine its companies for human rights and environmental violations abroad
- EXPLAINED: How Germany's states are speeding up AstraZeneca jab rollout
- German word of the day: Flanieren
- Germany extends shutdown until March 28th - but loosens some measures
04 March
- Germany to recommend AstraZeneca vaccine for over-65s
- Merkel declares 'new phase' of pandemic with gradual easing of Covid-19 measures
- 15-year rule: Long-term Britons in Europe to get right to vote in UK elections
- Cold spell comes to Germany following spring-like weather
- EXPLAINED: This is Germany's five-step plan to head out of shutdown
- Covid-19 cases in Europe back on the rise after weeks of decline
- What you need to know about buying (and using) Germany's new at-home Covid-19 tests
- Airbus reaches deal to avoid firing thousands of people in Germany
- Germany gives green light for over 65s to receive AstraZeneca vaccine
- Six questions about Germany's extended shutdown and reopening plans
05 March
- Why Germany's nuclear exit is posing tough questions about its energy future
- Berlinale: Berlin Festival to award first 'gender-neutral' acting award on final day
- Intern at German prison faces hefty bill after sending photo of master key to friends
- LATEST: What is the current coronavirus situation around Germany?
- German phrase of the day: Alter Schwede
- 'Half of Germans' think Women's Day should be national public holiday
- TV director charged with rape in German #MeToo scandal
- German court blocks surveillance of far-right AfD
- How freely will people be able to travel to and from Germany this summer?
- All children in Germany should return to school in March, state ministers agree
- Seven German words that originally come from India
06 March
- German supermarket Aldi sells out of home tests hours after they go on sale
- Pandemic risks undoing gains for women, Merkel warns
- Germany's vaccine woes will end in April, says vaccine agency boss
07 March
- Merkel's party slumps in polls as mask purchase scandal widens
08 March
- These are the German lockdown rules being relaxed on Monday
- 'Schnell' vs 'Selbst': The key differences between Germany’s new Covid-19 tests
- Why have tens of thousands of Germany’s AstraZeneca vaccines not been used?
- What you need to know about Germany’s face mask scandal
09 March
- Where and when can I buy a home Covid-19 test kit in Germany?
- Doctors’ association accuses German Health Ministry of causing ‘test chaos’
- 'Trade has collapsed': Germany sees business with UK slump after Brexit
- Germany's head football coach Joachim Löw to step down after nearly 15 years
- EU warns it could block more vaccine exports
- Five of the best German historical dramas to binge watch right now
- EXPLAINED: When will I be in line for a Covid-19 vaccination in Germany?
- Travel: Germany downgrades Covid-19 risk status of USA
10 March
- How to speak Austrian: These are the major differences between Austrian and High German
- German vaccine boss praises Russian vaccine as ‘clever’
- Who is hardest hit financially by the pandemic in Germany?
- Europe's Covid-19 'hotspots' to be sent four million more vaccine doses
- Merkel's conservative party moves to clean up after 'mask affair'
- German and Swiss music festivals cancelled over pandemic
- How family doctors will speed up Covid-19 vaccinations across Germany from April
- EXPLAINED: How do I prove that I belong to one of Germany's vaccine priority groups?
11 March
- How elections in one state could reveal what's to come in post-Merkel Germany
- ‘Third wave has already begun’: Germany records sharp increase in Covid-19 cases
- Tell us: What have been the positives about living in Germany during a year of lockdowns and closures?
- Germany still has ‘three or four tough months’ to go, says Merkel
- Moving house in Germany: 7 things you need to know about setting up utility contracts
- EU drugs regulator approves new single dose vaccine
- How (and where) to get a free rapid Covid-19 test in Berlin
- From Spätzle to Blaukraut: Six German cooking skills to master
- First storm of year blows over north and western Germany
- 'Corona bonus is melting away': Merkel's party in turmoil ahead of key German vote
12 March
- Why is there a delay in German family doctors vaccinating against Covid-19?
- Germany must ‘prevent number of coronavirus cases from exploding again’: RKI boss
- Will it be possible to go on holiday in Germany over Easter?
- Germany expects delayed Johnson & Johnson vaccine to arrive in 'mid-to-late April'
- Germany set to lift travel warning for parts of Spain and Portugal
- Moving to Germany: How I've kept my long distance relationship alive during the pandemic and Brexit
- Bavaria plans 100 million rapid Covid tests to allow all pupils to return to school
13 March
- OPINION: We moved abroad, but we should still get our vote
- EU states seek summit on unfair vaccine handouts as AstraZeneca announce more delays
- EU vaccine passports must prevent 'discrimination': European Commission
14 March
- Merkel's party braced for 'slap in the face' as polls take place in German states
- Bild editor steps down over allegations of affairs with employees
- Volkswagen to slash up to 5,000 jobs to fund electric vehicle drive
- Merkel's conservatives suffer heavy losses in two German state elections
15 March
- 'Wake-up call': Merkel's CDU party in crisis after defeat in regional polls
- German coronavirus cases 'will be higher at Easter than before Christmas'
- German ICU doctors call for 'immediate return' to lockdown as Covid-19 numbers rise
- 'Germans are coming back': Spaniards sceptical over return of tourists
- Germany suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot concerns
- Merkel's CDU party admits Covid failings after defeat in regional polls
- UPDATE: What you need to know about Germany's suspension of the AstraZeneca jab
16 March
- The 14 words that even Germans had to learn during the pandemic
- Blood clots ‘very likely’ linked to AstraZeneca vaccine, says German health expert
- Three-quarters of Germans think new CDU leader Laschet 'not suitable choice for Chancellor'
- German phrase of the day: Eine Extrawurst verlangen
- Emissions in Germany sink to lowest level in 30 years thanks to pandemic
- Spain braces for German Easter influx as flights boom
- Why you should visit this hidden part of Berlin's 'notorious Neukölln'
- EXPLAINED: Are all German schools really going to open again before Easter?
- ANALYSIS: Germany's rising Covid cases and state elections mean Merkel's CDU could be in for a shock
- AstraZeneca benefits outweigh risks, EMA says as EU orders 10 million more Pfizer doses
17 March
- Berlin becomes first German state to pause lockdown relaxation
- Will Germany continue to reopen public life amid rising Covid-19 numbers?
- Why one German town is lifting its lockdown despite third coronavirus wave
- IN STATS: Fewer international students join German universities amid pandemic
- 'Not an invitation to go there': Germany urges against Mallorca holiday following lifting of travel warning
- COMPARE: How European countries are faring against 'third wave' of Covid infections
18 March
- German Health Ministry overpays for face masks, ‘costing taxpayers €2 billion’
- How to use Berlin’s rental cap law to catch out illegal landlords
- Over 300 victims 'sexually abused through Germany's top diocese' in Cologne
- Three women win Hamburg scholarship awarded to those who plan to 'do nothing'
- LATEST: Nearly three-quarters of new Covid-19 cases in Germany from more-contagious variant
- How long can Brits stay in the UK without losing their EU residency?
- Could 'health passports' kickstart travel around Europe?
- How to save money on your taxes for pandemic year 2020 (and what to watch out for)
- Eat like a Bavarian: How to cook a five course meal of southern goodness
- AstraZeneca vaccine 'safe and effective' against Covid-19, European Medicines Agency concludes
- Number of thrombosis cases following AstraZeneca jab rises to 13 in Germany
- German leaders urge quick EU approval of Russia's Sputnik V jab
19 March
- Germany to use AstraZeneca vaccine from Friday
- Hamburg moves back into hard shutdown as third coronavirus wave gains momentum
- Germany warns of 'exponential' coronavirus spread
- OPINION: European governments were cautious on AstraZeneca vaccines but they were neither stupid nor 'political'
- Surprise snowy weather comes to Germany but spring on the way
- Support for Merkel's CDU party sinks amid more resignations
- Germany warns Russia it will 'defend itself' against targeted disinformation in election year
- Here's the German vocabulary you need to get the Covid-19 vaccine
- EXPLAINED: The reasons why so many Germans rent rather than buy
- Germany to make vaccines available at GP practices: What you need to know
- Merkel says she 'would take AstraZeneca vaccine'
20 March
- German doctors call on government to end 'irresponsible' easing of lockdown as virus spread accelerates
- How Berliners are plotting a radical 'expropriation referendum' to fight housing crisis
- 'We don't tolerate such attacks': German police use batons and pepper spray at Covid protest in Kassel
21 March
- 'Wish you were here': Postcards help Germans connect in pandemic
- German states seek Covid restrictions extension into April as case rise continues
- IN PICTURES: Protests spread across Europe as coronavirus surges create new lockdowns
- German Health Minister in spotlight over mask contract with husband's firm
22 March
- These are the travel plans that could make it into Germany's new lockdown pact
- 'Chronic overwork of staff': Germany sees spike in Covid-19 intensive care patients
- Almost two-thirds of Germans 'unsatisfied' with government's Covid-19 management
- EXPLAINED: These are Germany's planned new lockdown measures
- Is Germany's Volkswagen becoming 'the new Tesla' as it ramps up e-vehicle production?
- Prosecutors investigate sudden death of German politician on flight from Cuba
- Tickets sell out in three minutes as Berlin Philharmonic reopens to public
- Germany proposes new rule to allow families to meet over Easter
- Debt-averse Germany to take on new borrowings to soften pandemic blow
- German lockdown measures 'extended until April 18th'
- Germany's Curevac to include virus variants in Covid-19 vaccine trials
23 March
- Germany to enter strict Easter lockdown to fight 'new pandemic'
- 'We have a problem': Merkel backs EU's threat to ban AstraZeneca exports
- What you need to know about Germany's 'hard lockdown' measures over Easter
- Curfews, testing for all air travel: the key changes in Germany's new Covid rules
- How the pandemic is sharpening the plight of Berlin's homeless women
- 'Too little, too late': What Germany is saying about the extended lockdown measures
- This is how the major German states are implementing the new lockdown rules
- Covid-19 third wave: Which countries in Europe have the tightest restrictions?
- Travel in Germany: What's allowed (and not) over Easter holidays?
24 March
- Will Germans get an extra public holiday as part of the Covid Easter shutdown?
- BREAKING: Germany's Easter lockdown 'to be overturned as Merkel concedes mistake'
- ‘Amazed that Christian parties are stopping Easter’. Row breaks out over German call to avoid church services
- Merkel admits Easter coronavirus shutdown plan her 'mistake alone'
- EU toughens rules for vaccine exports to avoid shortfalls
- German cabinet agrees record levels of new debt for 2021
- Germany considers temporary ban on foreign tourism
- EXPLAINED: What prompted Merkel to make a sudden U-turn on Easter shutdown in Germany?
- Why some Britons will have to leave EU countries by March 31st
- One year on: The charts and maps that explain the state of the pandemic in Germany
- Germany to ease citizenship requirements for Nazi victims' kin
25 March
- Adolf, Alexa, Greta: These are the names Germans don’t want to give their kids
- Germany reaches highest number of new Covid-19 infections since January
- First German state set to end coronavirus shutdown from April 6th
- How a major German jazz festival is to take place in-person in May
- IN NUMBERS: How badly did the AstraZeneca suspension hit Germany's vaccine rollout?
- German word of the day: Der Impfling
- Travel: Germany to demand negative Covid-19 test from all air passengers
26 March
- UPDATE: Germany requires negative Covid test for travellers from France
- Schools openings will lead to more children getting longterm Covid, German doctor warns
- These eight words show just how different German and Austrian Deutsch can be
- LATEST: Berlin refuses to go back into hard shutdown despite high infection rate
- Germany approves €750 billion EU coronavirus recovery fund
- Germany says ready to use Russia's Sputnik V vaccine if approved by EMA
- Germany toughens transparency rules for MPs in wake of 'face mask scandal'
- Are Germans really fleeing the cities for an idyllic life in the countryside?
- Health Minister calls on Germans to only meet outside amid 'last part of pandemic marathon'
28 March
- Germany is 'in the most dangerous phase of the pandemic', says Merkel aide
- EU vaccine chief hopes for tourism boost as he unveils Covid-19 'health passport'
- 'We need action': Merkel urges German states to stick to agreed shutdown rules
29 March
- German word of the day: Der Spargeltarzan
- Berlin makes Covid tests mandatory for all workers with customer contact
- Is Germany heading for a tougher Covid lockdown?
- EXPLAINED: How Berlin's new coronavirus rules affect you
- Germany's foreign population growth slows to ten year low
- Merkel clashes with German states over coronavirus measures
- Vaccination centres in some German states 'to close over Easter'
- Everything that changes in Germany in April 2021
- EU countries to receive Johnson & Johnson vaccines from mid-April
30 March
- Germany's new coronavirus testing rules for air travellers: What you need to know
- VIDEO: How the German city of Tübingen is betting on Covid-19 tests to reopen public life
- Weather: Sun and springlike temperatures come to Germany
- LATEST: Germany's coronavirus incidence rate more than doubles in four weeks
- Travel: Germany announces tougher checks at all land borders
- 'Allow more freedom and flexibility': Merkel party chief defiant in row over Covid-19 measures
- Syrian refugee ends German election campaign over 'racism'
- German word of the day: Die Selbstbeweihräucherung
- Germany restricts use of AstraZeneca jabs for under-60s
- State by state: These are Germany's coronavirus rules over Easter
- Germany 'cannot ignore AstraZeneca findings', says Merkel
31 March
- 'I really needed a break': Pandemic-weary Germans find 'freedom' on Mallorca
- German health experts call for strict lockdown to quell rising Covid cases
- Germany closes case against deported ex-Nazi guard, 95
- German job market rides out coronavirus spike
- EXPLAINED: What is Berlin's new compulsory testing requirement for shops and hairdressers?
- Hamburg to introduce curfew amid rising Covid-19 cases
- EXPLAINED: Why has Germany restricted the use of AstraZeneca in under 60s?