Germans headed to the polls in two key regional elections Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives bracing for a drubbing on anger over a corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives are trying to end corruption allegations roiling their ranks over mask procurement, ordering MPs to declare all financial gains related to the pandemic days ahead of key regional elections.
Two senior lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance have resigned after accusations they profited from the coronavirus pandemic through alleged kickbacks for state purchases of face masks.
German Finance Minister Olaf
Scholz came under fire Friday after documents showed he knew about suspicions
of misconduct at disgraced payments company Wirecard as early as 2019.
German payments provider Wirecard
filed for insolvency Thursday, just days after admitting €1.9 billion
missing from its accounts likely "do not exist" and its ex-CEO was arrested.
The former chief executive of
Wirecard, Markus Braun, has been arrested on suspicion of market manipulation,
German prosecutors said Tuesday, after the payments provider admitted that €1.9
billion missing from its accounts likely "do not exist".
A criminal syndicate helped Nigerian immigrants get residency by providing Berlin authorities with fake papers. The immigration authority reportedly ignored internal warnings and kept approving the applications.
Many refugees in the city of Bremen are worried that they could face deportation after a major scandal at the city’s immigration authority, where officials allegedly took bribes in return for offering asylum.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has said that he won’t spare reputations in his efforts to get to the bottom of a scandal that has hit public trust in the asylum process. What is the so-called 'Bamf affair'?
The southern state of Bavaria is bringing a legal case against Volkswagen over the impacts of the emissions cheating scandal that has rocked the car manufacturer.
German regulators suspect that Italian-American auto maker Fiat Chrysler, like Volkswagen, used illegal software to cheat on emissions tests, a newspaper report said Sunday.
Germany’s biggest car manufacturer also has a sideline in currywurst. In 2015 the scandal-hit company sold more of the spicy sausages than they did cars.
Germany's football association promised a package worth millions of euros to secure a crucial vote from disgraced official Jack Warner for its bid to host the 2006 World Cup, Der Spiegel said on Friday.
Germany's transport minister said on Sunday that in the wake of the Volkswagen emission cheating scandal, major automakers would have to disclose their engine software to state regulators.
The German Football Association (DFB) has reportedly requested a right of reply in the news magazine Der Spiegel to refute the cash-for-votes allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany.
Car maker Opel on Friday rejected claims by environmentalists that its diesel-powered cars emit up to 17 times more NOx during normal driving than under test conditions.
A group of leading environmental organizations called on Monday for the German government to implement more comprehensive pollution tests for cars in the wake of Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal.
Police have raided Volkswagen's French headquarters over an investigation into the massive pollution-cheating scandal that has engulfed the German auto giant, a judicial source said Sunday.
Italian police on Thursday raided Volkswagen's main office in the country and those of its sports car unit Lamborghini in connection with the investigation into the company's rigging of emissions tests.
Scandal-hit Volkswagen on Friday opened a webpage for customers to check if their diesel vehicle is fitted with a device aimed at cheating pollution tests.
Embattled German carmaker Volkswagen named Matthias Müller, head of its luxury sports car brand Porsche, as its new chief executive on Friday, tasked with steering it out of the wreckage of its pollution test rigging scandal.
Porsche CEO Matthias Müller has been chosen to become the new leader of Volkswagen amid the company's ongoing emissions cheating scandal, Reuters reported on Thursday.
