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A new hard-left party that is opposed to Germany's support for Ukraine is set to be part of a governing coalition with the conservatives and Social Democrats in the eastern state of Thuringia.

Thuringia coalition deal announced, alerts issued for snow, Merkel's memoir spotlights challenging dealings with Trump, and more news from around Germany.

Carmaker does not specify where British cuts will fall but Dagenham and Halewood will not be affected Business live – latest updatesFord has said it will cut 4,000 jobs in Europe, becoming the latest carmaker to try to reduce costs amid slowing growth in electric car sales and competition from China.The American carmaker said on Wednesday it would axe 800 […]

US car giant Ford on Wednesday announced 4,000 more job cuts in Europe, mostly in Germany and Britain, in the latest blow to the continent's beleaguered car industry.

Foreign residents applying for German citizenship in cities like Frankfurt and Darmstadt face long waits. A new investigation shines a light on the naturalisation backlogs and delays in Hesse's major cities.

Crisis-hit auto giant Volkswagen will face strikes of a magnitude unseen in Germany for decades unless it rules out plant closures, a union warned Wednesday, ahead of fresh talks.

Germans are known for their rigid rules and love of order. But when complaints against children waiting at a bus stop before school were lodged in her German village, American writer Rosamaria Mancini felt let down and asks: where is the tolerance?

This German word is often used - and you've been probably been seeing it a lot recently after an epic failure in German politics.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel was still one of the world's most popular politicians when she retired in 2021, but critics are increasingly questioning her legacy ahead of the release of her memoirs.

German police have begun clearing a protest camp near Tesla's German factory near Berlin, where activists hoped to stop the expansion of the US carmaker's only European site.

Strike with US-made missiles has prompted fears of Russian reprisal that would broaden the scope of a frontlineRussia-Ukraine war live: latest news updatesA Ukrainian strike using American-made missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia using American-made weaponry, has prompted renewed fears of reprisal through “hybrid warfare” – a chaotic tool of […]

Senior SPD figures hold talks on candidate for chancellor amid speculation about switch to popular defence ministerGermany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is under mounting pressure to step aside as his party’s candidate for the job in February’s snap election in favour of his defence minister, Boris Pistorius, the most popular politician in the […]

Germany said Tuesday it believed that recent damage to communications cables in the Baltic Sea was "sabotage", as Sweden reported damage to a second underwater link.

Boris Pistorius says ‘no one believes’ two undersea fibre-optic communications cables were cut accidentallyRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesGermany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibre-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.Two cables – one between Finland and Germany, the other […]

Deutsche Bahn will launch a new timetable on December 15th. It includes more direct services and international connections, but some tickets are pricier. We round up the key points.

Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of its futuristic brillianceAsk people what the most iconic musical road trip is and they’ll most likely direct you towards America: take Highway 61 through […]

Chancellor Olaf Scholz was under growing pressure Tuesday to let popular Defence Minister Boris Pistorius run as the top candidate for his party in snap polls in February.

Parts of Germany were on alert on Tuesday as stormy weather, strong winds and snow hit the country.

Berlin is ending its €29 monthly travel pass offer as part of austerity measures. Here's what we know so far.

Berlin moves to end the €29 transport pass, snow hits lower mountain ranges and more news from around Germany this Tuesday.

My father, Michael Halliwell, who has died aged 96, was a Church of England clergyman in Jersey who devoted much of his life to promoting Anglo-German friendship.His mission derived largely from his childhood in Jersey, where he was born to Arthur, a surgeon, and his wife, Dorothea (nee Goode). An idyllic childhood there was shattered in 1940 when the […]

This simple German word is actually more complicated than it seems, as it has at least three different meanings depending on how it's used.

Schelling Architecture Foundation refuses to give James Bridle the €10k prize after signing of open letterA German architecture foundation has rescinded one of its €10,000 (£8,360) awards from a British artist over the signing of an open letter promising a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions, citing the German parliament’s controversial […]

Pro-business party internally referred to its plans as ‘D-day’Germany’s pro-business Free Democratic party, which collapsed Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition this month in a dispute over the budget, reportedly plotted its exit weeks before the final split, referring to the plans internally as “D-day”.Newspapers Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung […]

Transparency International writes to EU requesting inquiry into potential failure to declare travel and ticket expensesAn NGO has called for an investigation into five far-right members of the European parliament, warning of a potential failure to declare expenses for a trip to attend a gala dinner in New York headlined by Donald Trump.Transparency […]

Ukrainian president says talk between German and Russian leaders on war will reduce Putin’s isolationVolodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that a telephone conversation between Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin will open a “Pandora’s box”, after the German chancellor and the Russian leader discussed the war in Ukraine in a rare call on Friday.Scholz urged his […]

Axel Scheffler says he hopes Wuschel auf der Erde will encourage more children to learn his first languageAxel Scheffler, the illustrator behind the international children’s bestseller The Gruffalo, has launched a book to help primary school pupils learn German.Wuschel auf der Erde: A New Adventure in Learning German tells the story of a friendly alien […]

Moving to a new home can be stressful and time-consuming. Can you get paid time off for it in Germany? We explore the options.

European Commission figures predict German economy, usually the engine of the EU, will contract O.1% this yearBusiness live – latest updatesGermany’s looming general election will be fought against the backdrop of a stagnating economy, the European Commission has forecast, with GDP expected to have contracted in 2024.The commission’s quarterly […]

It was once the envy of the world – but now its arrogance and failure to change or take risks lie at the root of its declineAbout 50 years ago, a man named Hans Bauer who worked in marketing for a German carmaker came up with the slogan Vorsprung durch Technik or “advantage through technology”. Poetry it wasn’t. The slogan seemed a little clumsy and […]