germany

Germans' favourite European country? Easy: Germany

In a representative survey of German citizens, 47 percent named one country as particularly close to their hearts. The second favourite was behind by a country mile.

spying

German man 'used spy app to track ex-lover'

A 20-year-old man faces a Baden-Württemburg court this week after admitting he installed a spy app on his ex's smartphone and tracked her every move for over three months.

NSA

Merkel at press grilling: it's a free country

Chancellor Angela Merkel said "Germany is not a surveillance state" and insisted she only learnt of sweeping US online snooping through press reports, during a lengthy election-campaign press conference Friday.

Cars

Suzuki losing patience with VW, reports say

Japanese automaker Suzuki is getting increasingly frustrated with its larger partner Volkswagen and is eyeing deeper ties with Italian giant Fiat, German media said Saturday.

su

State demands Nokia return €41 million

Nokia has been given one week to return €41 million of the subsidies it received from the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and NRW bank. The reasoning behind this demand is that Nokia created fewer jobs since 2002 than it promised.