With a double-digit score across Europe's biggest countries including a stunning 20 percent in Germany, the Greens bagged record gains in European elections on Sunday with younger voters leading calls for action to halt global warming.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's fragile coalition took a fresh knock on Sunday with historic low scores at European elections, exit polls showed, raising questions on whether it could survive the latest body blow.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right bloc was leading in European elections in Germany, exit polls showed Sunday, but the score was shaping out to be a historic low, while the Greens recorded a surge.
If you’re hoping to fill one of the tens of thousands of engineering jobs in Germany expected to be lacking by 2026, look no further. The Local spoke to three engineers who’ve settled here to find out what you should know.
In Germany’s biggest political upset in years, FDP liberals walked out on coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Greens. So what is Merkel’s next move? We take a look at the possible scenarios.
Some Brits in Germany have been left furious after their postal votes for the UK's EU referendum haven't arrived in time, depriving them of a voice in the historic vote.
Scandal-hit car giant Volkswagen is set to sink huge sums into building a factory for batteries to power its future electric cars, German media reported on Friday.
It’s still a long way to go until the Euro 2016 championships, but Germany has already scored the first victory over rivals England. Rather than on the football field, however, they've taken their first shot on a TV screen - in the form of a commercial.
If you're a pro-EU Brit living abroad, there's plenty you can do to keen Britain 'in', explains Laura Shields from the Brits Abroad: Yes to Europe initiative.
Educate yourself a bit about the mainstream music landscape in Germany where even the world-famous Adele is apparently no match for Schlager Christmas hits.
Military historian Robin Schäfer explains why he and thousands of German families are horrified by a British TV show promoting the looting of German war graves - exactly as happened to his own great-uncle's remains.
Scientists in Germany said Thursday they had reached a milestone in a quest to derive energy from nuclear fusion, billed as a potentially limitless, safe and cheap source.
Germany on Friday passed a law banning professional assisted suicide services - even if practitioners say they do so purely in the interest of suffering people.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that she would not be turned from her course in the refugee crisis by headwinds in the polls or rumours of rebellion in her own party, repeating her insistence that Germany can weather the storm.
Thousands of exhausted refugees received a hero's welcome Sunday as they streamed into Germany and other European nations, but Austria warned the emergency measures are only "temporary" as the EU struggles to establish a united response to the crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said the refugee crisis facing Europe is testing the core ideals of universal rights at the heart of the European Union.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday that talks to unlock a third financial aid package for Greece would be “unusually difficult”, with little room for manoeuvre around strict European rules.
The European Central Bank should not provide any more emergency liquidity to Greece, the head of the German central
bank said on Thursday, calling for any further financial aid to the debt-wracked country to be put up by governments.
