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

01 August
- Germany starts spot checks at borders, as new test obligation begins
- More than 600 people detained in Berlin as Covid sceptics defy protest ban
- Five things to know about Germany's new Covid testing rules
- Germany plans Covid booster shots 'from September'
02 August
- Holidaymakers travelling by car and train stopped for Covid test checks at German borders
- Covid infection rate in Germany goes up - but vaccines having impact on hospitalisations
- Why Germany is embroiled in a row over vaccinating children against Covid
- UPDATE: German prosecutors consider manslaughter probe into deadly floods
- 8 German novels to read if you can’t travel this summer
- Former Nazi camp guard, 100, 'fit to stand trial' in Germany
- Germany agrees to offer Covid booster shots from September
03 August
- German investigators slam Covid sceptics for bringing children to demos
- Germany opens vaccine centres for teenagers: What you need to know
- More heavy rain forecast for flood-hit west of Germany
- REVEALED: How much do employees really earn across Germany's states?
- Britons and other non-EU travellers face €7 fee to enter Europe for visits
- Why are people in Germany still struggling to get the digital Covid vaccine pass from pharmacies?
- Germany's Greens propose new climate protection ministry with veto power
04 August
- 'We're full': German waste centres tackle mountains of post-flood debris
- Death toll in German chemical blast climbs to six
- Germany considers tougher rules for the unvaccinated in autumn - but 'drastic lockdown unlikely'
- Working in Germany: A weekly roundup of the latest jobs news and talking points
- How Germany's new travel rules to fight the fourth Covid wave may affect your holiday plans
- German word of the day: Feierabendbierchen
- Who's about to get a top-up Covid shot in Germany - and why?
- UK adds Germany, Austria and Norway to green travel list
05 August
- How wine from Germany's flood-hit western regions gives hope for the future
- When (and why) Germany plans to scrap free Covid tests for all
- Is the United States finally set to open up to travellers from Germany?
- Rundfunkbeitrag: Germany set to raise TV tax by 86 cents per month after court ruling
- Germany added to the UK's green travel list: What does it mean?
- Everything you need to know about travel between Canada and Germany
06 August
- Kurzarbeit: German minister plans to extend reduced working hours scheme
- German prosecutors start probe against district official over catastrophic floods
- IN NUMBERS: How the fourth Covid wave in Germany is developing
- Is Germany set to introduce a nationwide 'health pass' system?
- How to book a ‘Day Two’ Covid-19 test if you’re travelling from Germany to the UK
- COMPARE: The cities in Germany with the fastest-rising rents
07 August
- Leading doctor calls for compulsory tests for everyone returning to Germany, including vaccinated
- IN PICTURES: 1200 demonstrators protest far-right march in Weimar
08 August
- German chancellor candidate Laschet loses favour with voters: poll
- Should German public continue to pay for Covid-19 tests?
09 August
- Planning a road trip across Europe this summer? Here are some things to think about
- Germany divided over whether to charge people for Covid rapid tests
- 'My vote counts': How Germany's new legion of foreign voters see the election
- Here's where (and why) Covid vaccine centres are due to close in Germany
- Climate change: Germany says time is 'running out' to save planet
- German virologist says UK's falling Covid cases despite lifting restrictions gives 'hope'
- Frontrunner to succeed Merkel calls for up to €30 billion to rebuild flood-hit German towns
- What can we expect from Merkel's Covid talks with state leaders?
10 August
- Crossing borders: How we drove across Europe by van during the pandemic
- Germany plans 'full freedom' for vaccinated in Covid crunch talks
- Politicians debate '€30 billion' fund to rebuild German flood zones
- German train drivers call strike in escalating wage dispute
- Election 2021: Germany's Greens holding onto hope for change after Merkel
- German states return more than 2.7 million unused vaccine shots
- TRAVEL: Germany places 19 regions on 'high risk' list
- 'National solidarity': Germany earmarks €30 billion to rebuild after deadly floods
- Germany to end free-of-charge Covid tests in bid to boost vaccine take-up
11 August
- How can you minimise your climate impact as an international resident?
- EXPLAINED: How Germany aims to increase vaccinations and control the Covid fourth wave
- Majority of long-distance trains disrupted as German rail strike kicks off
- UPDATE: Briton accused of spying on Germany for Russia remanded in custody
- Working in Germany: A weekly roundup of the latest jobs news and talking points
- German word of the day: Der Schabernack
- Conservative's missteps leave race for Merkel job open in Germany
- Berlin throws all-night party to drum up Covid vaccine tempo
- Four things to know about Germany's paid-for Covid tests
12 August
- German rail strikes continue to impact cross-country services
- How Brits can prove their post-Brexit rights in Germany - before they get their residence card
- ANALYSIS: Is Germany underestimating its Covid vaccination numbers?
- Reader tips: How to reduce your climate impact as an international resident
- Eight aspects of German culture foreigners should embrace
- Reader question: Who can look after my children while they quarantine in Germany?
- Election 2021: How do Germany's political parties want to tackle rising rents?
13 August
- 'Wall of Shame': How the Berlin Wall went up 60 years ago
- German trains resume normal service as union threatens further strikes
- German public health authority to investigate 'underreported' Covid jabs
- German phone companies rule out Brexit roaming charges in 2021
- FKK: Is Germany falling out of love with nudism?
- Germany poised to issue travel warnings for USA, Turkey and Israel
- UK changes travel rules again to impose quarantine on European arrivals who had mixed vaccine doses
- EXPLAINED: The Covid rules for attending German football matches
14 August
- How The Local's countries are impacted as July records Earth's hottest month EVER
- Pharma giants including Germany's BioNTech set to make billions from Covid-19 booster jab
15 August
- Have more people in Germany been vaccinated than official data shows?
16 August
- Germany's nationwide Covid 7-day incidence rises above key threshold of 35
- 'Bitter events': Merkel says focus in Afghanistan must be on evacuating Germans and those in danger
- Germany moves United States and Israel to 'high risk' list: What does it mean?
- Germany's vaccine panel recommends Covid jab for everyone over 12
- EXPLAINED: How to cast a postal vote in the German elections
- Bavaria starts booster Covid jabs for most vulnerable
- Five German foods to try this summer
- Flood waters sweep people away in Bavaria bridge collapse
- Afghanistan situation is 'bitter, dramatic and terrible', says Merkel
17 August
- Why learner drivers in Germany are facing long waits for practical tests
- One dead, one missing after floods sweep through Bavarian hiking trail
- UPDATE: Why a German military plane rescued just seven people from Kabul
- Everything you need to know about Berlin's 'Super Election Day'
- German words you need to know: Kreuzgeimpft
- Tell us: What do you think about Germany's plans to charge for Covid tests?
- Germany halts development aid for Afghanistan
- 'Better than I could have imagined': How foreigners feel about being able to travel to Germany
- Merkel urges coordinated Afghan refugee response from EU
18 August
- Which German states are restarting school in August - and what will the rules be?
- Germany sees number of new Covid cases double in 24 hours
- German court rules high interest on tax repayments 'unlawful'
- Working in Germany: A weekly roundup of the latest jobs news and talking points
- COMPARED: How Covid vaccination rules for children differ around Europe
- People in Germany face higher TV tax payments from August
- German states vow to take in thousands of Afghan refugees
19 August
- After Merkel: What do the polls tell us about Germany's next leader?
- German man to stand trial for ramming car into shoppers in Trier
- 'The world needs to help': Germany scrambles to evacuate more people from Afghanistan
- Most Covid hospital patients in Germany are unvaccinated, says doctor
- Why one German state is choosing to ignore the Covid incidence
- Why bank customers in Germany are facing higher fees
- German public transport slammed as 'failure' as half of users switch to car
20 August
- End of an era: Merkel to meet Putin in final state visit to Russia
- Germany rescues more than 1,600 people from Afghanistan amid fears of revenge Taliban acts
- Rail passengers in Germany face disruption as two-day strike announced
- German Health Minister rules out Covid lockdown for vaccinated
- Fourth wave: What we know about Germany's spike in Covid cases
- Germany considers offering Covid top-up jabs for all
- Munich and Berlin among the 'most popular university cities in the world'
- Merkel: Russia and Germany should talk despite 'deep differences'
- Germany braces for 'severe weather' and weekend storms
- How Americans can navigate Germany's new travel restrictions
21 August
- Merkel rides to the rescue as conservatives plunge ahead of German election
- Thieves hit entrance buildings of Berlin's Victory Column
22 August
- German Chancellor Merkel visits Ukraine before leaving office
- Russian gas must not be 'weapon' against Ukraine: German Chancellor Merkel
- Germany's train strikes: What rights do you have as a passenger?
23 August
- Train passengers across Germany face major disruption due to strike
- German army evacuates more than 2,700 people from Afghanistan
- German Health Minister says focus must be on Covid hospital admissions when deciding measures
- Germany's 16 states bring in uniform 'Covid health pass' system
- Holiday like a local: Five of the best camping regions in Germany
- Has Germany seen a pandemic baby boom?
- Four words that tell us something about Germany
24 August
- Climate change made German floods 'more likely and more intense'
- Students in Darmstadt on high alert after campus drinks poisoned
- Germany 'needs 400,000 immigrants every year' to fill jobs
- Experts warn of Covid risk on packed German substitute trains on second day of strike
- How to deal with fruit flies (and other critters) plaguing your German flat
- Brits with EU partners warned over future problems returning to live in UK
- Germany is seeing 'pandemic of the unvaccinated', says Health Minister
- Germany's Social Democrats take surprise lead in election poll
- EXPLAINED: what you need to know about dual citizenship in Germany
25 August
- 3G to 2G: Hamburg venues can allow entry for Covid-vaccinated and recovered people only
- Working in Germany: A weekly roundup of the latest jobs news and talking points
- OPINION: Germany is failing its Afghan helpers - out of fear of repeat of 2015 refugee crisis
- We need to talk to Taliban to preserve Afghanistan gains, says Merkel
- EXPLAINED: What Brits with EU partners need to know about returning to live in UK
- UPDATE: What you need to know about Covid testing when visiting Germany
- German words you need to know: Das Tohuwabohu
- EXPLAINED: These are Germany's current Covid hotspots
26 August
- New political era: Post-Merkel German election reaches final stretch
- Germany extends pandemic emergency powers for further three months
- Sensible or reckless? What Germans think about the government's new Covid strategy
- Candidate barred from standing in German local election challenges removal of Brits' EU rights
- Merkel, Germany's 'eternal' chancellor, prepares to leave the stage
- 10 facts that help explain the German language
- Germany's evacuation operation in Afghanistan ends
- EXPLAINED: Why German electricity bills are hitting record highs
27 August
- Armin Laschet: Gaffe-prone Merkel heir with big shoes to fill
- Who's affected most by Germany's fourth Covid wave?
- Everything that changes in Germany in September 2021
- Will Germany restrict festivals and concerts only to the vaccinated?
- Germany strikes Spain and Lisbon from list of Covid risk areas
- Motivation to get vaccinated or coercion? Mixed views on Germany's plan to charge for Covid tests
- EXPLAINED: When exactly will Merkel leave office?
- German words you need to know: Die Streicheleinheit
29 August
- Conservative contender to succeed Merkel goes on attack in TV debate
- Germany state Baden-Württemberg set to impose Covid restrictions on unvaccinated
30 August
- EXPLAINED: The Covid rules you need to know for the new German school term
- 'Work is work': Afghan ex-minister now delivers food in Germany
- German government split on whether to impose mandatory tests for train travel
- Busting the myths around zebra crossings - the rocky rules of German roads
- How did Hamburg’s first ‘vaccine only’ weekend go?
- Germany takes in close to 50,000 refugees in first half of 2021
- German consumer prices rise by highest level in three decades on back of pandemic measures
- German train drivers plan third wave of strikes starting Wednesday
- EU recommends tighter restrictions on American tourists as US removed from Covid safe travel list
31 August
- Chemical reaction likely to blame for deadly blast at German plant
- Olaf Scholz: A safe pair of hands who wants Merkel's job
- After flood catastrophe: Germany experiences wettest summer in 10 years
- Covid infections fall in Germany for first time since July
- German unemployment drops to pre-pandemic levels
- Does German desire for transport efficiency trump environmental concerns?
- German industry seeks powers to know worker vaccine status
- EXPLAINED: How the German rail strikes could affect you
- Merkel says 'huge difference' between her and vice-Chancellor Scholz
- OPINION: How to explain German vaccine hesitancy?
- German word of the day: Schnarchnase
- Berlin clubs to reopen on Friday - but only to vaccinated and recovered