The Local Germany

Crystal meth usage rising in Germany

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:35:00 +0100

Usage of the highly addictive drug methamphetamine, also known as “crystal meth”, has gone up in Germany and it is being rapidly imported into the country, the Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.

Train retraces East German route to freedom

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:07:00 +0200

A historic train left Prague for Germany on Thursday to retrace a trip taken by thousands of freedom-hungry East Germans who fled their communist country just before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

German neo-Nazis march in Czech town

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:25:00 +0200

Nearly 500 far-right militants from the Czech Republic and Germany rallied late Saturday to mark the 64th anniversary of punishing Allied air raids on the Czech city of Usti nad Labem, near the German border.

Berlin hopes Czech woes won’t kill EU deal

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:12:00 +0100

Germany said on Wednesday that it remained confident the EU reform treaty would be passed despite political turmoil in the Czech Republic, which currently holds the European Union’s rotating presidency.

Czech shoppers head across the border to Germany for bargains

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:36:00 +0100

Czechs have turned old economic clichés around and are flooding into Bavaria – to go on cheap shopping sprees.

Westerwelle: Berlin must oppose US missile defence

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:10:00 +0200

Guido Westerwelle, the head of German opposition Free Democrats, on Thursday urged the German government to oppose the US missile defence system to be built in neightbouring Poland and the Czech Republic.

HSV's Jarolim handed ban for 'genital squeeze' foul

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:10:00 +0200

Czech international David Jarolim has been slapped with a four-match ban by Bundesliga disciplinary chiefs after he was ruled to have squeezed an opponent's genitals.

Crime rises after end of eastern German border controls

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:57:00 +0200

A hundred days after the European Union ended border checks along Germany's eastern borders, residents on both sides are complaining of increased crime, according to Berlin daily Der Tagespiegel.

Berlin to set up memorial for war displaced

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:46:00 +0100

The German government on Wednesday agreed on the outlines of a memorial project for ethnic Germans expelled from their homelands that had drawn fire from the Czech Republic and Poland.