https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German police said Friday they are raiding apartments and offices over possible links to the Austrian Islamic State sympathiser who went on a deadly gun rampage in central Vienna. https://www.thelocal.de/20201106/german-police-say-raiding-flats-offices-over-vienna-attack Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:39:37 +0100 german-police-say-raiding-flats-offices-over-vienna-attack Germany has stepped up checks at its border with Austria following multiple shootings that have left four people dead. https://www.thelocal.de/20201103/germany-steps-up-checks-at-austria-border-after-vienna-attack Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:06:15 +0100 germany-steps-up-checks-at-austria-border-after-vienna-attack Bavarian authorities have urged people in Austria not to go shopping across the border while most of the country has been classed as a risk zone by Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20201026/covid-19-bavaria-warns-austrians-against-cross-border-shopping Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:58:50 +0100 covid-19-bavaria-warns-austrians-against-cross-border-shopping A debate over tightening border controls in Germany has been sparked as countries, including Austria and the Czech Republic, battle with increasing coronavirus infections. https://www.thelocal.de/20201020/should-germany-impose-border-controls-as-covid-19-rates-rise-across-europe Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:35:59 +0200 should-germany-impose-border-controls-as-covid-19-rates-rise-across-europe Austria has withdrawn a general travel warning for Germany's most populous state issued after a massive coronavirus outbreak at a meat processing plant. https://www.thelocal.de/20200629/austria-relaxes-general-travel-warning-for-german-state-of-north-rhine-westphalia Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:02:48 +0200 austria-relaxes-general-travel-warning-for-german-state-of-north-rhine-westphalia An Austrian court has ruled that a German tourist who took exception to a World War II portrait in an Austrian guesthouse had no right to complain about it on travel sites. https://www.thelocal.de/20190907/tourist-told-to-pull-nazi-grandpa-comments-in-austria Sat, 07 Sep 2019 11:21:05 +0200 tourist-told-to-pull-nazi-grandpa-comments-in-austria A Czech court said Friday an Iraqi man and woman faced extradition to Austria in connection with two 2018 attacks on trains in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20190329/germany-train-attack-suspects-face-extradition-to-austria Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:57:55 +0100 germany-train-attack-suspects-face-extradition-to-austria A Vienna court has ordered a car dealer to reimburse a customer who bought a Volkswagen car because it was fitted with software designed to cheat emissions tests, the buyer's lawyers said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180607/austrian-car-buyer-to-get-refund-for-emissions-cheating-volkswagen Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:41:37 +0200 austrian-car-buyer-to-get-refund-for-emissions-cheating-volkswagen The Austrian and German federal police and the Bavarian state police plan for the first time this Friday to work together in their border area to assess ways they can combat increasing illegal immigration and crime. The authorities will start by taking a closer look at rail traffic. https://www.thelocal.de/20180601/germany-and-austria-strengthen-borders-to-combat-risky-illegal-migration Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:40:49 +0200 germany-and-austria-strengthen-borders-to-combat-risky-illegal-migration It is almost exactly 80 years since Hitler’s Wehrmacht marched into Austria. But while the dictator was after Austrian gold, he didn’t immediately intend to annex the country of his birth, a historian in Vienna claims. https://www.thelocal.de/20180308/hitler-wehrmacht-annexation-austria Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:42:09 +0100 hitler-wehrmacht-annexation-austria Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz clashed over immigration in their first meeting Wednesday, with the seasoned German chancellor saying Vienna's resistance to sharing out refugees across the bloc was "wrong". https://www.thelocal.de/20180117/merkel-rebukes-austrian-chancellor-over-refugees-on-first-to-berlin Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:36:05 +0100 merkel-rebukes-austrian-chancellor-over-refugees-on-first-to-berlin An 18-year-old is suspected of planning acts of terror in Germany and Austria as well as instructing a 12-year-old German boy to attack a south German Christmas market in 2016. https://www.thelocal.de/20180108/austrian-teen-charged-with-plotting-terror-attack-with-german-boy Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:38:59 +0100 austrian-teen-charged-with-plotting-terror-attack-with-german-boy In this week's podcast we look at how Austria's government could soon include an ex-Nazi party. How right wing could it get? https://www.thelocal.de/20171020/listen-austria-venice-referendum-france-weinstein Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:51:29 +0200 listen-austria-venice-referendum-france-weinstein Austria's hard-right Freedom Party has a shot at sharing power after elections on Sunday, having narrowly lost out in a presidential vote last year. https://www.thelocal.de/20171014/how-far-right-parties-are-faring-across-europe Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:59:53 +0200 how-far-right-parties-are-faring-across-europe German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière announced on Thursday that Berlin would be extending border controls for a further six months, meaning checks will stay in place in the Alpine region. https://www.thelocal.de/20171012/border-controls-between-austria-and-germany-to-stay-in-place-berlin-confirms Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:38:07 +0200 border-controls-between-austria-and-germany-to-stay-in-place-berlin-confirms The government in Vienna is now taking legal action before the European Court of Justice against a car toll in Germany planned for 2019. https://www.thelocal.de/20171012/austria-files-lawsuit-against-germany-over-autobahn-foreigner-tolls Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:50:08 +0200 austria-files-lawsuit-against-germany-over-autobahn-foreigner-tolls Airbus CEO Tom Enders warned on Friday that the aircraft manufacturer could face "significant penalties" relating to ongoing corruption probes including one into the sale of fighter jets to Austria. https://www.thelocal.de/20171007/airbus-chief-warns-of-significant-penalties-from-bribery-probes Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:29:22 +0200 airbus-chief-warns-of-significant-penalties-from-bribery-probes German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday said that the far-right defeat in Austria's presidential election was "a good omen" for Europe. https://www.thelocal.de/20161205/austrian-vote-a-good-omen-for-europe-german-minister Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:57:38 +0100 austrian-vote-a-good-omen-for-europe-german-minister An Austrian man has won a ten year court battle over an extra €2.50 he was asked to pay to get into a swimming pool in Bavaria a decade ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20160824/man-wins-ten-year-court-battle-over-250-surcharge Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:39:34 +0200 man-wins-ten-year-court-battle-over-250-surcharge Germany could lift temporary border controls brought in last year to help stem the migrant flow by mid-May if the number of arrivals continues to dwindle, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160406/germany-could-lift-border-controls-in-may-interior-minister Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:33:17 +0200 germany-could-lift-border-controls-in-may-interior-minister