Germany's 16 states have proposed special rules for the festive season. From calling on employers to offer company holidays to allowing groups of up to 10 people to meet, here are the draft proposals.
Berlin brought in the New Year with a dazzling display of fireworks over the Brandenburg Gate, with the Berliner Sea Dogs later taking their first icy dip of 2020.
From Saturday until New Year's Eve, fireworks will be sold throughout Germany. But as warnings over safety and pollution intensify, are fireworks still a big part of German culture at Silvester?
Pyrotechnic-mad Germany loves to see in the New Year with a bang but concerns about climate change have prompted several major retailers to take fireworks off the shelves this year, local media said Friday.
It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that New Years Eve in the German capital - with fireworks flying vertically and horizontally all across the city - resembles a war zone. Berlin’s ruling coalition, fed up with widespread injuries and attacks on emergency services, have forecast a limit or even a ban to fireworks in the city. But would such a move be effective?
After several attacks on police officers and fire brigades at the turn of the new year involving fireworks and bottles being thrown, politicians have warned that those responsible could face harsh penalties.
Firecrackers left two people dead, a child injured and five people requiring amputations during New Year celebrations in Germany, police and emergency services said on Monday.
German police Friday found a tonne of fireworks allegedly stashed in cellars by a Berlin resident after they were alerted by neighbours who noticed the man was unleashing an unusually large amount of pyrotechnics on New Year's Eve.
German supermarket chain Aldi Süd weathered criticism Tuesday for offering a New Year's Eve fireworks set called "Paris", six weeks after the deadly jihadist attacks in the French capital.
After some children killed a beaver with a firecracker near Berlin, animal protectionists called for people celebrate new year without using fireworks.
Germany's football chief Thursday urged fans to refrain from setting off fireworks at matches after a bomb threat forced the cancellation of a friendly with the Netherlands this week.
Germans can start stocking up on New Year's fireworks as of Friday, but they're being advised to revel with care: The case of a man who bled to death, apparently due to an illegal firecracker, has police warning of the dangers of contraband pyrotechnics.
Police caught a 16-year-old Berlin boy trying to bypass Germany's strict fireworks laws by smuggling 4.3 kilograms of illegal bangers over the Polish border. The teen could face a fine, or even prison, police said on Monday.
As New Year’s celebrations approach, German customs officials are stepping up border inspections, hoping to stem the tide of powerful, but often illegal, Polish fireworks.
A 29-year-old Berliner was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday for throwing a firecracker from his window at a group of children who were playing too noisily while he was trying to sleep.
An annoyed resident of Berlin’s Treptow district responded to the sound of a crying child on a playground by pelting it with an illegal firecracker, the <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> daily reported on Tuesday.
