A damning new report suggests the German government is propping up inefficient airports with huge subsidies. It proposes a new grid of a small number of airports connected by high-speed trains.
Germany issued a 10-year bond at a negative interest for the first time on Wednesday, selling more than €4.0 billion with a yield of minus 0.05 percent, the German central bank or Bundesbank said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition agreed Thursday on tough measures to spur the integration of migrants and refugees, including sanctions for failing to take part in programmes such as language classes.
A planned €10.2 billion increase in defence spending agreed by ministers on Wednesday won't be enough to modernize the German army, soldiers have warned.
Around 1,000 passengers were delayed at Cologne-Bonn airport on Tuesday after a plain-clothes police officer reached airside without passing through security checks.
The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) launched a fierce defence of his euro-crisis strategy in front of German MPs on Wednesday, telling them the bank's bond-buying plan was neither inflationary nor covert aid to governments.
Chicken sold in German supermarkets is often contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a spot test carried out by environmentalists who said the over-use of antibiotics in farming posed a danger to human health.
A German DIY enthusiast accidentally walled himself into his own basement and only managed to escape by drilling his way through to his neighbours, police said Thursday.
Already under fire for his discriminatory comments against Muslims, Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin sparked further outrage with controversial remarks regarding Jews in an interview published on Sunday.
Both houses of the German parliament on Friday approved emergency aid to Greece despite strong popular opposition two days before a state election that could seriously weaken Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition.
Nearly 9,000 tenacious runners and triathletes overcame Europe’s transport chaos at the weekend to compete in the gruelling, 18-kilometre Fisherman’s Friend Strongman Run near the western German town of Weeze.
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Catholic travellers found out they were carrying much more than the Holy Spirit back from a pilgrimage in southeastern Europe on Monday evening, when customs officers in Bavaria discovered their tour buses were loaded with 50,000 smuggled cigarettes.
The toad migration season has begun, and an army of volunteers are dutifully manning the toad fences along hundreds of German roads where the creatures would otherwise come to a sticky end.
Even hardened criminals have a right to aftershave and hand cream, Germany's highest court said in Berlin on Tuesday, approving the appeal of a male inmate against gender discrimination.
Nature protection organization BUND has called the German government’s proposed environmental code book (UGB) “inadequate” and has warned its failings could triple the cost of drinking water.
