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 Bavarian minister-president Horst Seehofer stoked anger over the weekend with plans to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin – Chancellor Angela Merkel's greatest foreign opponent. https://www.thelocal.de/20160201/bavarian-premier-plans-to-get-chummy-with-putin Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:47:54 +0100 bavarian-premier-plans-to-get-chummy-with-putin A top neo-Nazi politician appeared in a Berlin court on Wednesday facing incitement charges after police found CDs with racist music on, in his military shop. He claimed he never knew they were there. https://www.thelocal.de/20131113/neo-nazi-politician-in-court-over-racist-cds Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:47:00 +0100 neo-nazi-politician-in-court-over-racist-cds After being stopped this week for drunk driving, the state justice minister of Lower Saxony said on Thursday the incident was embarrassing, but it would not affect his political career. https://www.thelocal.de/20130207/47831 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:22:00 +0100 47831 The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) won Berlin’s state election on Sunday, setting up a likely coalition with the Greens. The upstart Pirate Party sailed easily into parliament. https://www.thelocal.de/20110918/37665 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:29:00 +0200 37665 Berliners go to the polls on Sunday, with indications suggesting they will re-elect their Social Democratic Mayor Klaus Wowereit yet force him to switch coalition partners from The Left party to the Greens. The Pirate Party could also sail into parliament. https://www.thelocal.de/20110916/37629 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:04:00 +0200 37629 Another CD packed with evidence of German tax evasion on money totalling €500 million has been spirited out of a bank in Liechtenstein and is being offered to investigators, media reported Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100722/28669 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:06:00 +0200 28669 The Christian Democrats (CDU) on Sunday suffered a bruising election defeat in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, robbing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition of its majority in the upper house of parliament. https://www.thelocal.de/20100509/27081 Sun, 09 May 2010 20:10:00 +0200 27081 The German music industry is expecting a “single-figure” percent drop in turnover for 2008, according to the German Music Industry Association. Experts say that German music consumers are not quite ready for new technologies. https://www.thelocal.de/20081226/16377 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:38:00 +0100 16377