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 officials are on tenterhooks this month as they wait to learn the fate of a bid to attain Unesco World Heritage status for historical Jewish sites in Erfurt, the capital of the eastern state of Thuringia. https://www.thelocal.de/20230907/germany-seeks-unesco-status-for-erfurts-jewish-heritage-sites Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:34:15 +0200 germany-seeks-unesco-status-for-erfurts-jewish-heritage-sites A further person has been arrested in connection with a blood doping network based in the German city of Erfurt, the state prosecutor in Munich confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190320/new-arrest-in-erfurt-doping-scandal Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:56:36 +0100 new-arrest-in-erfurt-doping-scandal On April 26th 2002 a 19-year-old took a gun into a high school in the eastern German town of Erfurt and shot 16 people dead. The event was the first of its kind in Germany and the impact was immense. https://www.thelocal.de/20170426/how-a-school-shooting-15-years-ago-changed-germany Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:00:19 +0200 how-a-school-shooting-15-years-ago-changed-germany Outside of Berlin there are only two mosques in the whole of the former East Germany. The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are trying to scupper plans for a new one in Erfurt, state capital of Thuringia. https://www.thelocal.de/20160518/church-fights-afd-over-plans-to-block-mosque-build Wed, 18 May 2016 14:23:39 +0200 church-fights-afd-over-plans-to-block-mosque-build Federal police said on Tuesday that they had arrested a man suspected of causing havoc with a bomb threat against the main train station in Erfurt. https://www.thelocal.de/20150414/erfurt-man-arrested-over-false-bomb-threat Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:13:04 +0200 erfurt-man-arrested-over-false-bomb-threat In the tug-of-war between federal and local government over who should bear the costs of housing refugees, the states and communities are demanding a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. https://www.thelocal.de/20150413/thuringia-far-right-racism-state-leader-threatened-over-refugee-homes Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:29:31 +0200 thuringia-far-right-racism-state-leader-threatened-over-refugee-homes City administrators in Thuringia's state capital Erfurt have proposed housing refugees in accommodation currently used by members of the Landtag (state parliament). https://www.thelocal.de/20150305/efurt-considers-replacing-mps-with-refugees Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:28:28 +0100 efurt-considers-replacing-mps-with-refugees Thuringia officially has a Linke (The Left) politician as minister-president after Bodo Ramelow was sworn in on Friday to lead the red-red-green coalition. https://www.thelocal.de/20141205/linke-politician-takes-power-in-thuringia Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:59:00 +0100 linke-politician-takes-power-in-thuringia 25 years ago today, just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of ordinary people stormed into Stasi offices in Erfurt to stop the repressive secret police destroying the records it kept on East Germans. https://www.thelocal.de/20141204/how-ordinary-people-smashed-the-stasi Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:00:00 +0100 how-ordinary-people-smashed-the-stasi Around 4,000 people demonstrated in Erfurt on Sunday against politicians' plans for a state government led by the Linke (Left) party. https://www.thelocal.de/20141110/thousands-march-against-left-state-government Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:33:00 +0100 thousands-march-against-left-state-government The path is clear for the far-left party, Die Linke, to lead a German state for the first time, after its future coalition partners voted in favour of forming a government in the eastern state of Thuringia. https://www.thelocal.de/20141105/way-clear-for-first-far-left-german-state-leader-since-1990 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:00:00 +0100 way-clear-for-first-far-left-german-state-leader-since-1990 Police are investigating a football fan who allegedly made the Hitler salute at the former Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140825/man-gives-hitler-salute-buchenwald-concentration-camp-erfurt-jena-thuringen Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:08:00 +0200 man-gives-hitler-salute-buchenwald-concentration-camp-erfurt-jena-thuringen A beer bike ran over a three-year-old girl in central Germany on Saturday night, sparking a mass brawl with 60 people. https://www.thelocal.de/20140707/beer-bike-crash-sparks-mass-brawl-erfurt Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:26:00 +0200 beer-bike-crash-sparks-mass-brawl-erfurt An 86-year-old woman damaged 11 cars when she tried to drive out of a multi-storey car park in central Germany on Thursday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.de/20140509/woman-crashes-into-11-parked-cars-in-erfurt-germany Fri, 09 May 2014 12:15:00 +0200 woman-crashes-into-11-parked-cars-in-erfurt-germany Get The Local flavour of Germany with our series offering an insider's take on life in his or her adopted hometown. This week, Karthik Subramanian takes us to Erfurt. https://www.thelocal.de/20130315/48541 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:45:00 +0100 48541 German criminal police who used hidden cameras for 18 months to try to find a toilet paper thief in their own office were probably breaking the law, it has emerged. https://www.thelocal.de/20130118/47411 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:54:00 +0100 47411 Shift workers in the public sector have no right to public holidays if they are scheduled to work - they must take a holiday day if they want to have the time off, a German labour court ruled on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20130115/47349 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:02:00 +0100 47349 People working for religious institutions have the right to go on strike - but only under certain conditions, the German federal labour court said on Tuesday, in a ruling that affects nearly 1.3 million people. https://www.thelocal.de/20121121/46287 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:48:00 +0100 46287 Germany's first national weapons register should be online at the start of next year to provide information about the six million legally-held guns in the country, authorities said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20121120/46273 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:20:00 +0100 46273 Employers in Germany can demand that sick employees provide a doctor's note from the first day they call in sick, a state labour court ruled on Wednesday. Critics voiced concern that bosses could abuse the new power. https://www.thelocal.de/20121115/46179 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:54:00 +0100 46179