📰 Breaking News: News Archive for June 2022 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 June
- 'Extraordinary experiment': Millions of people snap up Germany's €9 ticket
- Price of fuel falls in Germany after tax cut
- Germany to deliver air defence system to Ukraine, says Scholz
- 'A great thing': German residents welcome cheap public transport deal
- German phrase of the day: Was für
- How airports across Europe have been hit by travel chaos
- 10 ways to express surprise in German
- EXPLAINED: How Germany will roll out e-prescriptions this year
- Germany unleashes money-saving measures to beat inflation
02 June
- EXPLAINED: What you should know about investing in Germany
- Will Germany agree on a Covid strategy for autumn?
- ANALYSIS: Are Germans questioning Merkel's legacy?
- Germany struggles with growing worker shortage
- EXPLAINED: The German property tax declaration owners need to know about
03 June
- How Germany is preparing for a post-summer Covid wave
- Why Berlin is bringing in tough new rules for pet cats
- What are the laws around nudity in Germany?
- Why Germany's Health Minister is caught in a row over a chocolate bar
- Five dead after German train derails near Bavarian resort
- 'Biggest pay rise of their lives': Germany hikes minimum wage to €12
- Where are the German royal family now?
- What we know so far about the German train crash in Bavaria
04 June
- Living in Germany: Airport chaos, creative bureaucracy and Saarland's French influence
- Germany's Bundestag approves €100 billion fund to beef up defences
- What is the EU's 'single permit' for third-country nationals and can I get one?
- Germany: Death toll rises after the train crash in Bavaria
06 June
- Severe storms and hail hit southern Germany
- Tenants in Germany 'need more protection against rent hikes'
- 'A megacity on a smaller scale': An insiders' guide to Frankfurt
- Germany may face airport chaos in summer, warns minister
07 June
- Germany plans to ease residence rules for people with 'tolerated stay' permits
- €9 ticket: Hundreds of German trains 'overcrowded' on long weekend
- EXPLAINED: How is Germany's €9 ticket really affecting public transport?
- Germany opens probe against rail staff over deadly crash
- Two people dead after shooting in German supermarket
- German word of the day: Zwo
- 10 essential German words you'll need to know this summer
08 June
- Merkel says she has 'nothing to apologise for' over Russia legacy
- How much money will you get from Germany's energy relief measures?
- Teacher dead and school pupils injured in Berlin after car drives into crowd
- 'It happened so fast': Berlin in shock after car ploughs into pedestrians
- What we learned from Angela Merkel's first foray out of retirement
- Austrian rescuers save 100 German school children stuck while hiking in Alps
- REVEALED: The best night trains running through Germany
09 June
- What you need to know about the EU's plan for a uniform phone charger
- Germany's largest airline cancels hundreds of summer flights
- Eight unwritten rules that explain how Germany works
- German vaccine panel recommends monkeypox jab for risk groups
- Berlin car-ramming driver mentally ill, say prosecutors
- Schufa: How foreigners can improve their German credit score
- German word of the day: Beharren
- Is new court ruling the end for Britons fighting to remain EU citizens?
10 June
- Germany's analogue admin is even annoying the chancellor
- Will Germany see a spike in Covid infections this summer?
- German environmentalists call for caps on energy usage
- Tell us: What's your experience of air travel in Germany right now?
- German phrase of the day: Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei
- US to end Covid testing requirement for travellers from Europe
- Germany sees steep rise in number of foreigners becoming citizens
- Flight chaos: How your travel plans from Germany could change this summer
11 June
- Living in Germany: €9 ticket impact, digital woes and Leipzig festivals
- UPDATED: German knife rampage suspect moves to psychiatric care
- German ex football star joins criticism of Qatar on gay rights
12 June
- German president calls for debate on compulsory social service
- Woman dies after stabbing on German university campus
13 June
- German Chancellor Scholz 'planning trip to Kyiv'
- Germany drops Covid entry restrictions for non-EU travellers
- Has Germany's fuel tax cut failed?
- Strikes and queues: How airline passengers in Europe face summer travel chaos
- Germany tightens border controls ahead of G7 summit
- EXPLAINED: Germany's plans to ditch sanctions for the unemployed
- What to know about German parcel delivery price hikes
14 June
- More than 600 abuse victims in German diocese of Münster
- Drivers in Germany face higher fuel prices in the morning
- 16 million people snap up Germany's €9 ticket
- Anti-Semitic church carving can stay, German court rules
- Why so many German drugstores had to close on Tuesday
- How travel between Germany and the USA has become easier
- German word of the day: Wandern
- How Germany's soaring inflation is hitting household budgets
- Germany offers €9-10 billion rescue for former Gazprom subsidiary
15 June
- Germany races to stockpile gas before winter
- Summer Covid wave has arrived in Germany, says Health Minister
- Germany boosts funding for EU's Erasmus student exchange programme
- Heatwave: Germany braces for temperatures over 35C
- German steelworkers agree 6.5 percent pay hike after strike
- Germany sees 'political' motive behind Gazprom gas cut
- Which regions in Germany have the best (and worst) weather?
- Driver in Bavaria gets €5,000 fine for giving the finger to speed camera
- Fact check: Is Germany's internet really that bad?
16 June
- Macron, Scholz and Draghi meet Ukrainian president in Kyiv
- German government moves to ramp up wind power
- German doctors call for 'empty' Covid vaccine centres to close
- Why has Germany been slow to deliver weapons to Ukraine?
- German energy crisis: Call for reduction in minimum temperatures for tenants
- 'Arrive three hours early': Your tips for flying in Germany this summer
- Will Germany's motorists and cyclists ever learn to live with each other?
- Scholz says Zelensky to take part in G7 summit
17 June
- Germany's Scholz vows military backing for Ukraine for 'as long as needed'
- Top German art show starts amid anti-Semitism row
- Why Germany is discussing whether people should ‘freeze by law’
- Germans turn to food banks as cost of living crisis hits
- German cities call for 'quick decisions' on Covid measures for summer
- Germany mulls making masks mandatory ‘from October to Easter’
- Walrus makes rare stop on German beach to delight of locals
18 June
- Germany probing several hundred possible Russian war crimes
- Europe swelters under record-breaking heatwave
19 June
- Germany to take emergency measures to meet energy needs
20 June
- Living in Germany: Summer flights, regional beers and not-so-friendly neighbours
- Heatwave: Germany sees record high temperatures
- How much energy does Germany need to get through winter?
- How Germany's population is changing during the pandemic
- Nine of the best day trips from Munich with the €49 ticket
- Germany sticks to 2030 coal exit target despite energy crisis
- German phrase of the day: Nicht die Bohne
- Germany's BMW to put €1 billion into electric vehicles in Austria
- Why are medicines in Germany only available in pharmacies?
- Will Germany keep free Covid tests after June?
21 June
- German art show slammed over anti-Semitic images
- German states seek powers to enforce tougher Covid rules in autumn
- One dead and two badly injured after Bavaria storm wreaks havoc
- EXPLAINED: The Covid rules in place across German states
- Germany opens anti-cartel probe into Google Maps
- Budget airline passengers in Europe face travel headaches as more strikes called
- The most expensive (and cheapest) cities in Germany to rent a room
- Russian gas supply cut is an 'attack', says German minister
22 June
- Why Germany is debating a shorter working week
- German Health Minister wants to scrap free rapid Covid tests for all
- Is Germany planning more energy relief measures?
- KEY POINTS: German Health Ministry lays out autumn Covid plan
- Reader question: Will retirees benefit from Germany's energy relief package?
- Covid-19: European summer holidays threatened by rise of subvariants
- Q&A: What are the rules for subletting your apartment in Germany
- German word of the day: Abgefahren
23 June
- 8 of the coolest places in Germany to visit on hot summer days
- German nuclear power debate resurfaces over Russian gas threat
- 'Scarce commodity': Germany raises gas alert level as Russia reduces supply
- Frankfurt among the 'world's most liveable cities'
- How Germany plans to make trains more punctual
- German students to get higher grants from winter 2022
- Is Frankfurt a good place for foreigners to live?
- German airline Lufthansa axes 3,000 flights over staff shortages
24 June
- Can German Chancellor Scholz create a Merkel-like buzz at the G7 in Bavaria?
- Germany will see further food price hikes, says minister
- 'Arrive early': Passengers at European airports warned of travel disruption
- Pandemic in Germany unlikely to end this year, says top virologist
- Germany consigns Nazi-era abortion law to history
- What to know about cryptocurrency in Germany
- Germany to charge €3 for rapid Covid tests
- How Germany's property boom could be slowing down
- Reader question: Can under-5s get vaccinated against Covid in Germany?
25 June
- IN PICTURES: German climate activists pull 'oil stunt' at Chancellery
- WHO says European festivals should go ahead despite monkeypox risk
27 June
- Living in Germany: Shorter work weeks, €9 tours and hitzefrei
- German phrase of the day: Auf dein Nacken
- Germany's €9 ticket won't continue in autumn, says minister
- Weather: Germany sees extreme heat and storms
- Germany to 'recruit workers from abroad' to ease airport chaos
- EXPLAINED: Bavaria's plans to introduce tuition fees for non-EU students
- 101-year-old former Nazi guard pleads innocent in German trial
- Germany may place caps on gas use in winter, warns minister
28 June
- How Germany wants to prevent a wage-price spiral
- IN PICTURES: Germany hosts G7 summit with Bavarian twist
- Germany and G7 to 'develop a price cap' on Russian oil
- Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year jail sentence
- Everything that changes in Germany in July 2022
- Will Germany manage to tackle its airport chaos this summer?
- German health insurance costs set to rise next year
29 June
- Scholz says Germany to become biggest NATO force in Europe
- Passengers face disruption due to German air traffic control problems
- EXPLAINED: What you need to know about gun laws in Germany
- 'Something always goes wrong': What I learned taking the train through Europe with two kids
- EU extends Covid travel certificates until 2023 but what does this mean for travellers?
- Germany plans return to debt-limit rules in 2023
- EXPLAINED: Germany's planned changes to Covid vaccination status
- Will Germany introduce a new transport offer after the €9 ticket?
- German inflation slows in June as government steps in
- Flight chaos: How Germany wants to relax red tape to recruit foreign workers
- German word of the day: Isso
30 June
- Germany starts charging for Covid-19 antigen tests
- Ukrainian refugees push up German unemployment rate
- Less traffic, more ticket sales: How the €9 ticket has impacted Germany
- Germany plans to make legal gender change easier
- Should tenants in Germany be shielded from energy price hikes?
- 9 of the best day trips from Frankfurt with the 'Deutschlandticket'
- EXPLAINED: The new rules on getting a Covid test in Germany