The central Berlin street home to the British Embassy could be opened to traffic again after 11 years, with politicians putting pressure on security officials to remove the bollards.
A majority of Germans and Brits want a greater role for their national parliaments in EU decision-making, a poll released on Wednesday suggested. It comes ahead of EU talks between Angela Merkel and David Cameron in London.
A British man who went missing after losing his job at a call centre has been found three years later living in Munich. His parents were due to be reunited with him in Germany on Monday.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier gave a lukewarm reception on Monday to Britain's hopes of EU treaty change, days after France poured cold water on any renegotiation of London's membership.
The UK and Germany are locked in the same debate over the arrival of a new wave of immigrants from eastern Europe. But despite their arguments being the same, their presentation is very different, argues The Local’s Tom Bristow.
Nobody cares to eat alone, but for decades Germans have rung in the New Year by watching a little-known British comedy skit "Dinner for One." The Local explains a Teutonic tradition.
An interpreter who worked for British troops in Afghanistan for five years has won asylum in Germany after the UK government said it could not give him refuge. He told The Local he felt abandoned by the British.
Thousands of British and American expats in Germany are living off unemployment benefit as calls to restrict payments to “welfare migrants” grow louder.
As the data surveillance scandal unravels further and evidence of new data-tapping arises daily, Germany's press is in overdrive discussing the implications. <b>The Local's Media Round-up</b> delves into some of the juicy bits.
British secret services are tapping a fibre-optic cable carrying data from Germany to the US, German media say, in the wake of bombshell revelations that the British are watching Europeans on a larger scale even than the Americans.
German children may be part of Britain's plans to recreate the 1914 Christmas truce football matches between British and German troops as part of the commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of World War I.
Britain's Royal Air Force said on Friday that it has questioned one of its former servicemen over claims that he sexually abused children at a British base in Berlin in the 1980s.
French President Francois Hollande said Friday that Germany "did not want to isolate Britain" during tough summit talks that failed to agree a seven-year budget for the European Union.
Germany and Britain pressed the Group of 20 leading economies on Monday to tighten international standards for corporate tax regimes in order to close loopholes for big companies.
Amid wrangling over the EU's budget, Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to London on Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron after first outlining her views on the bloc's future in Brussels.
A 106-year-old German Jewish woman who fled the Nazis and has been living in Britain for more than 70 years has finally been granted British citizenship – the oldest person ever to receive it.
German media giant Bertelsmann said on Monday that it was going to merge its English-language division Random House with Penguin books, owned by British publisher Pearson. Bertelsmann is to be the main share-holder.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague accused Germany of alienating many from European ideas by pushing too hard for too much integration. “Sometimes less is more,” he said at a policy forum in Berlin.
While German officials talk about building new museums, they should first copy their British colleagues and open their collections to the people for free, says <b>Matthias Thibaut</b>, the <i>Tagesspiegel</i> newspaper’s London correspondent.
The Olympics and the jubilee made it a fun year to be Britain's ambassador to Germany. But <b>Simon McDonald</b> told The Local in an exclusive interview he also dealt with euro-suspicion at home and German aspersions about UK industry.
German discount supermarket giant Aldi said on Monday they would open 40 new stores in the UK by 2013 and double its outlets over the next decade, as it targets increasingly price-conscious middle class customers.
Germany has set out its demands over the proposal to create a merged BAE-EADS aerospace giant, insisting on a parity of power with France, Friday’s <i>Die Welt</i> newspaper reported.
