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

01 September
- Germans 'feel least free' of all Europeans during pandemic
- Working in Germany: A weekly roundup of the latest jobs news and talking points
- German man tried for spying on parliament for Russians
- Büsingen am Hochrhein: A slice of German life in the heart of Switzerland
- EXPLAINED: What the German parties’ tax pledges mean for you
- Donkey-rescuing football star Havertz raises thousands for German flood victims
02 September
- 'Faster than the virus': New WHO pandemic data hub opens in Berlin
- Volunteer army rebuilds Germany's flood-stricken towns
- How to navigate the Deutsche Bahn train strikes in your region of Germany
- Deutsche Bahn seeks emergency court injunction against rail strikes
- UK introduces a new car sticker requirement for driving in Germany
- How much longer will the pandemic continue in Germany?
- Six Germans charged over spectacular Dresden museum heist
- Reader’s question: Who will contact me if there's a Covid outbreak at a German bar I was at?
- Plan for tax fraud denunciation website in Germany causes uproar
03 September
- Merkel tours German flood zone to drum up party support
- German man jailed for abusing boy found hiding in closet
- Germany's school, kindergarten and care home staff to be required to show vaccine status
- German rail chaos continues after two failed attempts to prevent strikes
- Who will replace Angela Merkel as German chancellor?
- EXPLAINED: What Germany's draft bill on vaccine status means for workers
- Germany's Scheffelbrücke: Everything you need to know about the ‘world’s most expensive bridge’
- German climate groups plan legal action against car giants
- 5 beginner German language mistakes to avoid
- EXPLAINED: Where do Germany's political parties stand on dual nationalities and citizenship?
- Big drop in students getting degrees in Germany ‘due to pandemic’
- Reader question: What are the Covid rules for transiting through Germany?
04 September
- Is Berlin set to become car-free in the next few years?
- IN PICTURES: Thousands take to Berlin streets in peaceful social justice, climate protest
05 September
- Germany's SPD extends lead over CDU/CSU as Greens lose ground: poll
- Germany's Merkel says talks with Taliban must continue to evacuate more people
- Merkel defends would-be successor on German flood zone tour
06 September
- Meet the Bavarian politician fighting for trans rights in the German election
- Majority of Germans 'favour tough rules for the unvaccinated'
- Should Germany be testing more vaccinated people in the Covid fourth wave?
- German health ministers 'want to unify Covid school rules'
- 10 apps to download if you’re moving to Germany
- Are you classed as fully vaccinated in the UK after having Covid and one jab in Germany?
- Is Berlin set to introduce 'vaccinated-only' bars and restaurants?
- Four things to know about tap water in Germany
07 September
- Merkel's climate strategy called into question at last visit to motor show
- Trains return to normal across Germany - but more strikes loom
- German election 2021: Merkel backs Laschet as CDU lags behind in polls
- Vaccinated people are not 'guinea pigs', says Merkel
- German words you need to know: Der Wackeldackel
- What's behind the German fascination with foraging for wild mushrooms?
- EXPLAINED: Who will still get free Covid tests in Germany from October?
- 'Housing is a human right': Rent activists step up pressure ahead of German elections
08 September
- Germany considers Covid vaccination campaign relaunch to convince the undecided
- Germany's Covid incidence sinks for second day in a row
- Why are fewer people getting vaccinated against Covid in eastern German states?
- EXPLAINED: What you need to know about getting a visa for Germany
- Working in Germany: A weekly roundup of the latest news and talking points
- 'I'm a feminist', says Germany's Merkel
- German court rules anti-coal eviction in Hambach Forest illegal
09 September
- Macron stirs German election campaign by hosting two chancellor candidates
- ANALYSIS: Who could be in Germany's next coalition government?
- Unvaccinated workers in Germany could lose pay if ordered into quarantine
- Pressure mounts on German politicians to implement 'vaccinated only' rule
- Majority of Germans 'very afraid' of post-Covid tax hikes
- Germany extends financial aid for pandemic-hit businesses and the self-employed
- Not just for petrolheads: German motor show steers towards sustainability
- German finance and justice ministries searched in fraud investigation
10 September
- Germany probes claims of pre-election MP hacking by Russia
- Covid health pass: What can Germany learn from France?
- Are the German rail strikes going to end soon?
- Rail passengers between Hamburg and Berlin face longer travel times and fewer trains
- German vaccine panel recommends Covid jabs for pregnant women
- Three becomes latest UK phone operator to introduce post-Brexit roaming charges in Germany
- 'Germany is a country with a migrant background,' says President Steinmeier
- Greece, Corsica and Crete removed from Germany's high-risk list
12 September
- Merkel decries Belarus involvement in 'hybrid attacks'
- Grieg, Rachmaninoff, and leather jumpsuits: Berlin church holds concert for fetishists
13 September
- Laschet and Scholz trade blows in heated German election debate
- Germany launches 'vaccination week' in bid to boost Covid jab uptake
- Shops close across Berlin as retail workers go on strike
- An era ends: How will Germany and the world remember the Merkel years?
- Passport stamps: What British residents in the EU need to know when crossing borders
- 'Potsdam is a mirror of Germany': Chancellor candidates go head to head in local battle
- Young activists take German states to court over climate inaction
- When will children in Germany be offered a Covid vaccine?
- Renting in Germany: What you need to know about keeping pets
14 September
- Can Laschet's 100-day action plan win over German voters?
- Barring the unvaccinated from public places in Germany 'would cost less than a lockdown'
- What do Germany's small parties stand for - and could they form part of the next coalition?
- German court overturns ban on 'hang the Greens' election posters
- How you can travel for free in parts of Germany
- OPINION: Germany will have to endure Covid for a while longer, but at least Merkel is going
- Why are Americans being turned away from German banks?
15 September
- 'Last resort': Berlin activists go on hunger strike for climate
- EXPLAINED: What are the Covid health pass rules across German states?
- Jobs in Germany roundup: Spike in startups and can tattoos influence your application?
- ANALYSIS: Where Covid rates are dropping in Germany - and why
- ANALYSIS: Will a controversial police raid influence the German election?
- Germany to raise Hartz IV unemployment benefit by just three euros
- Reader question: How can I re-enter Germany without my post-Brexit residence card?
- German election roundup: Immigration, pension reform and tough questions from children
16 September
- Four things to know about the German election
- Will debt-shy Germans vote to loosen the purse strings?
- German words you need to know: Die Verschlimmbesserung
- UPDATE: Four held over foiled 'Islamist' attack on German synagogue
- German train drivers reach deal to end strikes
- Covid fourth wave in Germany: Is it the calm before the storm?
- EXPLAINED: What you need to know about getting a top-up Covid jab in Germany
- Could Germany change its dual citizenship laws?
- German election roundup: Climate pressure, coalition flirting and the end of 'Merkron'
17 September
- Facebook deletes virus conspiracy accounts in Germany
- 'One of us': Merkel's German hometown a refuge from wild world
- Doctors in Germany can continue to grant sick leave by phone
- Election 2021: What an SPD-led coalition could mean for foreigners in Germany
- Have your say: What are the best banks for foreigners in Germany?
- German word of the day: Gurkentruppe
- What do red socks have to do with Germany's election?
- EXPLAINED: The Covid rules that come into force in Berlin from Saturday
- German word of the day: Gurkentruppe
- German election roundup: Support for Scholz high, Berlin vote and cat fights
18 September
- Single vaccine shot enough for those with undetected infection, says German health minister
- EXPLAINED: What does super-spreader event at German '2G' party tell us about vaccine-only rules?
- Could sleeper trains offer Germans cheap, low-carbon travel across Europe?
- 'Following Merkel is tough': On campaign trail with Germany's struggling CDU candidate
19 September
- Berlin house seizure referendum approaches decision day
- Tried and tested or comeback king? Two men after Merkel's job
20 September
- 'Most Merkel-like candidate': SPD's Scholz wins final German election TV debate
- UPDATE: German chancellor candidate Scholz quizzed in fraud probe
- Should Germany have its own Covid 'Freedom Day' in six weeks?
- Why households in Germany are facing higher energy bills
- The Merkel-Raute: How a hand gesture became a brand
- Election 2021: What a CDU-led coalition could mean for foreigners in Germany
- UPDATE: US to lift travel ban for vaccinated Europeans on November 8th
- How travel rules from Germany to England have become stricter
- German election roundup: A 'wide-open' race, a scandalous grilling and a Merkel teddy
21 September
- Angela Merkel: What did Germany's first female chancellor do for women?
- Children in Germany to be offered Covid vaccine 'in 2022'
- UPDATE: Shock in Germany after cashier shot dead in Covid mask row
- What employees in Germany should know about quarantine compensation
- Will travellers vaccinated with AstraZeneca in Germany be able to enter the US?
- Should unvaccinated people in Germany face higher health insurance costs?
- What you need to know about travelling between Germany and the US
- 'We want to have a voice': How Germany's tough citizenship rules affect foreigners
- German election roundup: Facing climate change, coalition trust issues and Merkel bids goodbye to Stralsund
22 September
- Merkel exit deprives German far right of scapegoat
- Pandemic will end in Germany by spring 2022, says Health Minister
- Has it just got easier to end credit agreements in Germany?
- UPDATE: UK says European travellers with mixed Covid doses do now count as 'fully vaccinated'
- Cologne becomes first German city to offer Covid recovery certificates online
- Covid mask row killing sparks fears of radicalisation in Germany
- Germany ends quarantine pay for the unvaccinated
- Why Bavaria does politics differently to the rest of Germany
- Jobs in Germany roundup: The lowdown on coding bootcamps and new quarantine rules
23 September
- Germany gets ready for election that will mark the start of a new era
- From Kenya to Jamaica: Which coalitions are possible after the German election?
- TIMELINE: How Germany's 'Super Election Day' is set to unfold
- Four common mistakes English speakers make when learning German
- What's behind the falling Covid cases in Germany?
- 'Deadly for a democracy': The group campaigning for non-Germans to gain voting rights
- Talking elephants and grumpy politicians: Four things that will happen after the German elections
24 September
- German city mayor plans to hike up parking charges by 600 percent
- EXPLAINED: How Germany's complex electoral system works
- UPDATE: Greta Thunberg joins German climate strikes before vote 'of a century'
- How Berlin marathon organisers are putting safety first amid Covid fourth wave
- Why households in Germany face even higher electricity bills
- German election fever: Merkel's parrots and a talking fox
- 'Four years ago I couldn't speak German. Now I'm running in a Berlin election'
- Could wages in Germany be set to soar this year?
- What it was like navigating Covid travel rules to get home to the UK from Germany
- Merkel urges vote for 'stable' Germany as election looms
25 September
- UPDATE: Merkel's final push for party and stability in knife-edge polls ahead of German election
- 'An army of low-paid workers': wealthy Germany's not so equal
- IN NUMBERS: Who's voting in the 2021 German federal election?
- Bavaria and Saxony see highest number of Covid-19 vaccination centre offences
26 September
- Race wide open as Germany votes in post-Merkel election
- Greens face dashed hopes but new leverage with German vote
- EXPLAINED: Why Germany's post-election forecast may not reflect the final result
- Olaf Scholz: the Social Democrat channelling Merkel in succession bid
- AS IT HAPPENED: Social Democrats narrowly win German election as CDU suffers historic losses
- Gaffe-prone Merkel party candidate in ballot blunder
- COMPARE: Which European nations have the highest (and lowest) percentage of women MPs?
- Berlin hit by ballot shortages and long queues amid marathon chaos
- ANALYSIS: Greens face dashed hopes - and new leverage in German vote aftermath
- Germany on tenterhooks as polls show close election result
- Scrum for German chancellery as SPD takes lead in post-Merkel election
27 September
- Germany's Social Democrats win election but uncertainty beckons
- AS IT HAPPENED: German politicians ready teams for post-election talks
- Centre-left SPD candidate Giffey wins Berlin mayoral race
- 'Disaster avoided': How Bavaria voted in Germany's federal election
- ANALYSIS: Who were the real winners and losers of Germany's race to replace Merkel?
- EXPLAINED: Who will be in Germany's next coalition government?
- 'Resurrection': How the SPD bounced back to win German vote
- Berlin’s super election day: What does it mean for the city's housing shortage?
- Five things you need to know about the German election
28 September
- Merkel's CDU seat held since 1990 snapped up by young SPD candidate
- Germany's liberals hold strong cards in post-election haggling
- How is the race to form a new German government shaping up?
- 'We lost': CDU's Laschet faces calls to resign over German election disaster
- What Scholz's Brexit comments tell us about Germany's next potential leader
- Nearly three quarters of adults in Germany fully vaccinated against Covid
- SPD has 'first claim to form next German government', say Bavarian conservatives
- Everything that changes in Germany in October 2021
29 September
- Covid resurgence likely to hit Germany in October, warns top virologist
- Jamaica or Traffic Light: What's next for Germany and what does it mean?
- Jobs in Germany roundup: What an SPD-led coalition could mean for workers
- Germany's Scholz gets Merkel boost in coalition battle
- How non-German residents might have voted in the election
- Germany and France extend Covid tax breaks for cross-border workers
30 September
- Three German states relax Covid mask rules in schools
- EXPLAINED: Germany's tougher driving fines
- UPDATE: Former Nazi concentration camp secretary, 96, caught after escape bid
- Will Germany soon introduce an Autobahn speed limit?
- German state of North Rhine-Westphalia relaxes Covid testing rules
- Northern German city of Kiel hit by tornado
- EXPLAINED: The hidden costs of buying a house in Germany