The Latest Breaking News from Germany

German government distances itself from navy chief's comments on Putin

The German government on Saturday distanced itself from comments made by its navy chief after video footage emerged in which the vice-admiral said Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved respect and that Kyiv would never win back annexed Crimea from Moscow.

Reuters · Jan 22, 2022

Germany: Party picks conservative leader for post-Merkel era

Delegates from the party of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel have endorsed prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as the Christian Democratic Union’s new leader

The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2022

German conservatives elect right-winger Merz as new party leader

Germany's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) on Saturday elected arch-conservative Friedrich Merz their party leader to follow the more centrist Armin Laschet, who lost September's national election to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats.

Reuters · Jan 22, 2022

Setting sail for a powerful India-German partnership

The Indo-Pacific, with India as its centrepiece, features prominently in Germany’s foreign policy outreach

The Hindu · Jan 21, 2022

Western embassies reject Serbia PM's protest allegations

The United States, the U.K. and Germany have rejected allegations that the three countries financed protests that have shaken the Balkan nation’s populist government

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2022

Germany to lift minimum wage to 12 euros per hour from October - draft law

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats are pushing ahead with one of their key election promises by increasing the national minimum wage to 12 euros ($13.62) per hour from October onwards, a draft law seen by Reuters showed on Friday.

Reuters · Jan 21, 2022

On the hunt for Syrian war criminals hiding out in Europe

On January 13, in the first European trial against a high-ranking Syrian regime official, a former senior intelligence officer was sentenced to life in prison in Germany for crimes against humanity. Former head of interrogation at a detention centre in Damascus, Anwar Raslan was found guilty on 4,000 counts of…

France 24 · Jan 21, 2022

Exclusive-Islamist attacker's suspected accomplices used crypto exchange Binance, German police say

Two men suspected by Germany of assisting an Islamist gunman, who killed four people in Vienna in 2020, used the major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, German federal police said in a confidential letter seeking information from the company.

Reuters · Jan 21, 2022

Munich – The Edge of War: women in historical films are too often unrealistic

In September 1938, Britain, Germany, Italy and France met in Munich as a new European war loomed. Hitler was demanding to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia so in a bid to avoid war the Four Powers Agreement was signed and Czechoslovakia would surrender its border regions and defences. British…

The Conversation · Jan 21, 2022

How Germany Can Enter The Adult-Use Cannabis Market Successfully

By Michael Sassano, CEO of Somai Pharmaceuticals Germany Recreational Cannabis is Close.

Benzinga · Jan 21, 2022