The German military’s current airport home in Berlin may be closing, but the Luftwaffe still lacks concrete plans for a move to a new air hub currently under construction, daily newspaper <I> Tagesspiegel</I> reported on Tuesday.
The shares of Germany’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn will cost between €20 to €24 a piece, business daily <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> reported on Friday.
The city of Berlin on Wednesday will rename a street after late student leader Rudi Dutschke at the spot where a gunman made an attempt on the life of the leftist in 1968.
Germany’s ruling parliamentary coalition unified on a partial privatization of the country’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn late on Monday night.
The German parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ratify the European Union's Treaty of Lisbon, a new legal framework for the EU that replaces the rejected European constitution.
Drivers of cars with high carbon dioxide emissions are likely to see their annual licensing fees rise again under a new German Finance Ministry plan, according to a report on Thursday in <i>Bild</i> newspaper.
The number of German families facing destitution is rising, as one out of every four households live below the poverty line, according to a new survey.
Germany’s politicians are all atwitter after the environmentalist Greens agreed to form a coalition with the conservatives Christian Democrats in Hamburg this week. The Local takes a look at the historic alliance’s impact on the political landscape.
Federal President Horst Köhler will run for a second term, according to reports in the Saturday edition of <i>Bild</i>. He already has a broad base of support from the parties, and the approval of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A storm is brewing in Germany's grand coalition government amid signs that the ambitious plans by the government might jeopardize its aim of balancing the budget by 2011.
The president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, said a boycott of this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing should be considered if China does not rethink its actions in Tibet.
The CSU, the Christian Social Union of Bavaria and sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU, is putting forward its own tax concept that would see more money in the pockets of average working citizens and families.
Most of some 7,500 new recruits to the hard-line socialist Left Party in Germany last year came from states in the former West Germany, party leaders told news agency DPA this week.
According to poll published on Thursday, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is believed to be the best candidate for the chancellor from the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) in the upcoming 2009 election.
A poll released on Tuesday by German weekly <i>Stern</i> reveals that the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) continue to lose popularity, reaching an all-time low for the second time in two weeks at 22 percent.
Germany’s Social Democrats continued to squabble over the direction of their party on Monday. Despite calls to rally behind embattled party chairman Kurt Beck, centrist SPD members urged him to forgo a bid to become chancellor in 2009.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said on Saturday the Social Democrats had seriously damaged Germany’s ruling coalition with his Christian Democrats by swinging to left politically.
Andrea Ypsilanti, the leader of Hesse's Social Democrats, has abandoned her bid to become the German state’s premier after a renegade MP torpedoed her attempts to form a government with the support of the hard-line socialist Left Party.
The conservative Christian Democrats and the environmentalist Greens in Hamburg have signaled they will enter negotiations to form Germany's first ever coalition between the parties.
Reneging on a campaign promise, the head of centre-left Social Democratic Party in the German state of Hesse, Andrea Ypsilanti, is seeking to build a minority government tolerated by the hard socialist Left Party.
