Thirteen people, including German tourists, have been killed after a cable car disconnected and fell near the summit of the Mottarone mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.
Italy's interior ministry said on Saturday it had expelled a Tunisian national linked to the man who carried out a deadly 2016 attack on a Berlin Christmas market.
Italy's freelancers and self-employed were hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic with their livelihoods threatened by the sudden loss of income. The Italian government put in a place a scheme to help them survive, but how well did it achieve its aim?
Hospitals in the eastern German state of Saxony will
take on at least six Italian coronavirus patients who are unable to receive treatment in their own country, state premier Michael Kretschmer said.
An Italian judge has said that German Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete is free to go, three days after her arrest for docking with 40 migrants aboard her rescue ship in defiance of an Italian ban.
Worker-starved Germany is desperate to fill job vacancies, including in the medical sector. That's why organizations are looking for potential employees abroad.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Sunday said he hoped for a breakthrough this week in talks with
Italy and Greece on taking back asylum-seekers already registered in those countries, as Berlin toughens its migration policies.
Italy has told Germany it will continue to accept migrants rescued at sea, at least until an EU-wide plan to address how to distribute people can be defined.
The battle over migrant flows within the EU has become so fractious that various politicians have warned that Europe’s future is at stake. But recently released numbers show that not all is as it seems.
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has warned Germans to respect the new eurosceptic Italian government, having told Italians to work harder and stop blaming the EU for the country's problems.
The standoff between Italy's president and the populist coalition hoping to form a government centres on their pick for economy minister, the staunch eurosceptic Paolo Savona, who has been described by a former finance minister as “radically anti-German”.
Italian and German police have rounded up more than 160 suspects in a vast anti-mafia operation in the two countries, cracking open a crime empire that grew rich on bread, wine and funeral services.
A German NGO whose migrant rescue boat was impounded by Italian authorities on suspicion of collusion with people
traffickers said on Tuesday it had been the victim of a "despicable smear campaign".
Ten years after one of the bloodiest mafia shoot-outs in Germany, Italian and German politicians and researchers gathered in Berlin to discuss how to combat such criminal groups that still have a solid presence in the Bundesrepublik.
Investor confidence in Germany held steady in December despite uncertainty over Italy's troubled banks and upcoming elections in Europe, the ZEW economic institute said on Tuesday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel lost a key ally on Sunday night as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after losing a referendum on constitutional reform. But anti-immigrant populists in Germany welcomed the result.
Germany pledged on Wednesday to rebuild a school in earthquake-hit central Italy as a probe intensified into why at least one primary school and other buildings collapsed, causing nearly 300 deaths.
Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced
optimism on Tuesday that Italy will be able to head off a banking crisis and insisted the situation would not snowball into a new eurozone emergency.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged
European leaders to protect EU borders or risk a "return to nationalism" as the continent battles its worst migration crisis since the Second World War.
Germans appear to be losing faith in the idea of a borderless Europe, as the results of a poll published on Tuesday showed that two-thirds would prefer the government to end the Schengen free-movement zone.
On Tuesday, German MPs, journalists and others took to the Spree river in a boat once used by refugees to get an idea of what dangerous Mediterranean crossings are like. The Local's Hannah Butler was amongst the boat's passengers - and was shocked by what she experienced.
Germany, France and Italy called for an overhaul of laws on the right of asylum and a fairer distribution of migrants throughout the European Union, Italy's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
