The EU's top court on Tuesday threw out German objections to the European Central Bank's 2012 controversial programme of buying up government bonds, saying it was compatible with EU law.
Germany on Monday said it was open to talks on allowing Romania and Bulgaria into the passport-free Schengen zone,
which has been a delicate subject among European countries.
As MPs meet to discuss a planned law which would force large companies and the government to hire more women managers and executives, experts say that the bill hasn't been properly drafted.
Tax investigators are working their way through the files of 2,106 people with links to Germany revealed to have had secretive accounts with the Swiss branch of HSBC by leaks on Monday.
Germany's economy is expected to continue growing in 2015, new forecasts from the European Commission (EC) showed on Thursday, although progress is set to remain sluggish.
"Blackfacing", used by Germans to describe white people painting their skin dark to mimic black people, has been named Anglicism of the Year by a jury of linguists.
In a new feature, The Local will look into a successful entrepreneur's life each week - the story behind their successes, major challenges and how being an entrepreneur changed their life forever. Kicking things off from Berlin this week AUPEO! co-founder and CEO Holger Weiss.
Speculation is rising about why the head of the parliamentary committee investigating NSA spying in Germany quit on Wednesday. The opposition claims he was pushed in an attempt to avoid souring relations with the US.
Less than a week until the general election and Germany's Green Party leader faces part of his past he thought forgotten. The politician put his name to an election manifesto in 1981 pushing for paedophilia to be legalized.
A teenager has successfully persuaded Germany's highest court to slap down a judge who said he should be put on the national sex offenders register - because he groped his teenage girlfriend and left a love-bite on her neck.
Germany could face a probe into whether it has breached EU competition rules by letting consumers partly foot the bill as it switches to renewable energy, <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported on Sunday.
Ahead of government summit on integration of foreigners, German Economy Minister Philipp Rösler on Tuesday said the country desperately needed more skilled workers to to stave off a shortage in vital sectors of Europe's largest economy.
German wages should rise to increase domestic demand and stop the export-heavy, low-wage economy drifting away from its partners in the eurozone, the European Commissioner for Employment said.
Germany's foreign minister is no longer ruling out that the country could supply weapons to the Syrian opposition, he told a daily newspaper on Friday. The move could free the way for lifting the EU embargo.
Germany is the world's third largest arms exporter behind the US and Russia, a five-yearly report revealed on Monday. Between 2008 and 2012, Germany was responsible for seven percent of global arms exports.
Disgraced former Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has escaped criminal prosecution for plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation â by making a $20,000 donation to charity. Is that really fair? Have your say.
German prosecutors said Wednesday they dropped a plagiarism probe against a former defence minister and mooted successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel after the multi-millionaire made a donation to charity.
Croatia and Serbia's European Union prospects will be on the agenda when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the region on Monday, when she will also press for a cooling of frictions between Belgrade and Kosovo.
A day before he is due in Germany, Turkish President Tayyib Erdogan has harshly criticized Germanyâs policy towards Turkish efforts to join the European Union, saying it should support full membership.
Some 50,000 new jobs are expected to open up in Germanyâs metal and electrical industries this year, the <i>Gesamtmetall</i> industrial employersâ association said in Berlin on Monday.
German business confidence ended the year at an all-time high, the Ifo institute said Friday as Europe's top economy headed for record growth thanks to a solid rebound on the domestic front.
Bavariaâs Christian Social Union was embarrassed this week by flyer included in the conservative party's newspaper advertising holidays to âoccupied East Prussia,â using German names for territory now belonging to Russia and Poland.
Business English has long been mandatory for would-be German managers, but lately more American students have been enrolling for business German to improve their own job prospects.
German business managers are surfing a wave of confidence, as a key survey released on Friday showed another surprise jump in October to the highest level since May 2007.
