The Latest Breaking News from Germany

The coming 12 months can’t promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the world’s population headed to the polls. Still, voters will cast ballots in several important elections throughout the year – and many of the themes persist: the impact of…

YouGov survey finds negotiated end to war with Russia is preferred option in four out of seven countries

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Sylvia Perkins, 88, started writing to Lisa Kull in Germany when she was 12 years old.

In Germany Fanprojekte play a crucial social-work role with football fans but a court case in Karlsruhe is threatening their existence

The new direct daytime route, via Strasbourg, sweeps through enchanting landscapes from vineyards to forests. But some say it needs to be quicker still if the train is to be more attractive than flying

Germany’s “traffic light” coalition is no more; but when it comes to cannabis, its legacy is here to stay.

Security has been tightened at France's biggest Christmas market in Strasbourg, following the attack on a market in Germany last week in which five people died and 200 were injured. Authorities have also extended the use of a surveillance measure used at during the Paris Olympics to monitor a dozen…

The suspect, originally from Saudi Arabia, shared Islamophobic messages online and criticised German refugee policies.

A mother is mourning the loss of her 9-year-old son, who was killed in the Christmas market attack in Germany, along with four other attendees.

The far-right party holds ‘memorial’ rally for victims of car-ramming attack that has inflamed debate on migration.