http://www.thelocal.de/ German news throughout the day from The Local en-gb Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:10:01 +0100 Copyright: (C) The Local Europe AB http://www.thelocal.de/images/chromeLogo100px.gif http://www.thelocal.de/ 100 32 http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120206-40577.html Germany, holding up better than its eurozone partners in the current economic crisis, is battling the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "burnout" which is supposedly costing its economy billions of euros each year. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:33:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/money/20120206-40575.html Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, saw the release of further favourable economic data on Monday with industrial orders in December partly reversing steep falls seen the previous month. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120206-40571.html Germany shivered through record low temperatures of -29 degrees Celsius overnight, but the German Weather Service has forecast an even deeper freeze ahead of snow showers midweek. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:57:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120206-40569.html Four young car thieves in the western German state of Saarland notified the police on Sunday night after they stumbled on the corpse of a small baby in the boot of a car they were breaking into. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:48:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120206-40567.html One of Germany's most famous opera houses, Dresden's Semperoper, gave teenagers front row seats to the premiere of its new production of Alban Berg's "Lulu" - which centres on a murderous prostitute. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:18:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120206-40563.html Ernst Uhrlau, former head of Germany's foreign intelligence agency the BND, has been on the payroll of Germany's biggest bank since the start of February, just two months after his retirement. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:48:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20120206-40565.html Increasingly citing Germany as a model for France, President Nicolas Sarkozy will look to give his re-election hopes a boost Monday in a joint TV interview with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:57:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120206-40561.html A man had to be rescued from the frozen River Elbe in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday after his canoeing trip in sub-zero temperatures turned out not to be such a good idea. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:01:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120206-40559.html New figures on politically-motivated crime show a sharp increase in leftist crime in Germany last year, along with a slight fall in right-wing crime, it was revealed Monday. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:33:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/money/20120206-40557.html China's Premier Wen Jiabao said a stable Europe was key to stability at home, in comments published Sunday, at the end of a week that saw Germany's chancellor visit Beijing. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:06:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120205-40555.html The Russian-Orthodox Church canonised one of the founders of the anti-fascist group the "White Rose," Alexander Schmorell, over the weekend in Munich, nearly 70 years after his execution by the Nazis. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:28:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120205-40553.html Police investigating the Zwickau-based neo-Nazi terror cell identified one of the group's alleged members, Beate Zschäpe, as the person who blew up the home she shared with two other suspects by analysing her socks, a new report said. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:10:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20120205-40551.html German President Christian Wulff faced fresh allegations at the weekend over his conduct in office, with a new report claiming he leased a car from the VW Group for a special discount. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:48:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120205-40549.html The head of a middle school in the southern German town of Passau has declared the forms of "hello" and "goodbye" commonly used among northerners unwillkommen in the classroom, claiming they sound disrespectful. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:02:00 +0100 http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120205-40547.html Germany's foreign minister heaped criticism on Russia and China on Saturday over their veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at ending the violence in Syria, calling it a "veto against the Syrian people." Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:32:00 +0100