The Latest Breaking News from Germany

In today’s newsletter: Nationalising utilities, firing up disused coal plants and restrictions on air con – this is how other nations are tackling spiralling energy chaos

Germany’s environment minister says the mass die-off of fish in the Oder River is an ecological catastrophe and it's not clear yet how long it will take the river to recover

Crops, power plants, barge traffic, industry and fish populations devastated by parched waterways

Shipping companies are preparing to halt the transport of goods on the Rhine as water levels in Germany’s biggest river near a critically low point

Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, France, the Netherlands and the UK are enduring severe droughts this summer.

Poland’s environment minister says laboratory tests following a mass fish die-off detected high salinity levels but no mercury in Central Europe’s Oder River

The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Germany has worsened in the wake of Berlin government’s rejection to pay huge additional compensation to the families of the athletes killed during an attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Families of the 11 Israeli athletes who were killed in a Palestinian attack at…

My son was born soon after we moved to Berlin to open a bookshop. Last year I had twins – and things went far less smoothly

Formula Regional Asia squad Evans GP says one of its cars has been stolen and is somewhere in Germany.