Germany Politics

• Germany’s defence minister resigns amid pressure to ramp up Ukraine aid

  Lambrecht's resignation comes at a sensitive moment, as Scholz faces mounting pressure to make another significant step forward in German military aid to Ukraine.

  World

  Jan 16, 2023
  
• Olaf Scholz to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor

  The new chancellor and his government takes office with high hopes of modernizing the European Union's most populous nation and combating climate change.

  World

  Dec 8, 2021
  
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• German leader Helmut Kohl, credited with reunifying country, dead at 87

  Helmut Kohl was Germany's longest serving post-war chancellor from 1982 to 1998.

  World

  Jun 16, 2017
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• Thousands of former Taliban fighters may have entered Germany

  Thousands of former Taliban fighters may have entered Germany over the past two years among an influx of more than a million migrants and refugees.

  Politics

  Apr 22, 2017
• ‘Alarmingly high’ growth of anti-migrant crimes in Germany

  Germany's interior ministry says a new report showing more than 3,500 attacks in 2016 on migrants and their homes is "alarmingly high and cause for concern" but says authorities are prosecuting the crimes aggressively and the numbers are now falling.

  Crime

  Feb 27, 2017