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 Germany on Wednesday rejected a fresh demand from Greece for hundreds of billions of euros in World War I and II reparations, insisting the issue had been legally settled decades ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20190605/greece-calls-on-germany-to-negotiate-war-crime-reparations Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:13:40 +0200 greece-calls-on-germany-to-negotiate-war-crime-reparations Greece's parliament on Wednesday began a debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations, an issue long disputed by Berlin. https://www.thelocal.de/20190417/german-war-crime-payments-debated-in-greece Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:21:59 +0200 german-war-crime-payments-debated-in-greece German Chancellor Angela Merkel headed to Greece on Thursday amid tight security to show post-austerity solidarity with Athens and lend diplomatic support on a name change for neighbouring Macedonia. https://www.thelocal.de/20190110/merkels-greece-visit-to-focus-on-post-austerity-solidarity Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:58:56 +0100 merkels-greece-visit-to-focus-on-post-austerity-solidarity Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will stand for the May 2019 European election in Germany, a country he once locked horns with during the Greek debt crisis, the political movement he launched has announced. https://www.thelocal.de/20181126/greeces-former-finance-minister-to-stand-for-election-in-germany Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:49:08 +0100 greeces-former-finance-minister-to-stand-for-election-in-germany Germany wants a stronger EU border agency to handle migration to Europe, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Thursday while judging "unsatisfactory" the squalid living conditions for thousands of migrants in Greece. https://www.thelocal.de/20180920/heiko-maas-says-germany-wants-stronger-eu-border-agency-on-migration Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:22:15 +0200 heiko-maas-says-germany-wants-stronger-eu-border-agency-on-migration The German Interior Ministry says it has struck a deal under which Greece would take back asylum seekers already registered there, and voiced optimism about reaching a similar agreement with Italy. https://www.thelocal.de/20180817/germany-reaches-agreement Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:25:38 +0200 germany-reaches-agreement Greece will process 1,500 asylum applications from Germany as part of a deal signed between the two countries, Greece's migration minister said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180718/greece-to-process-1500-asylum-requests-from-germany Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:36:34 +0200 greece-to-process-1500-asylum-requests-from-germany The battle over migrant flows within the EU has become so fractious that various politicians have warned that Europe’s future is at stake. But recently released numbers show that not all is as it seems. https://www.thelocal.de/20180625/why-nrw-is-arguably-more-of-a-front-line-state-on-refugees-than-italy Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:47:06 +0200 why-nrw-is-arguably-more-of-a-front-line-state-on-refugees-than-italy Berlin has been one of the main lenders to Greece during its debt crisis. While conservative parties warned that supporting Greece would come at the cost of the German taxpayer, new figures show Germany has made money on the crisis. https://www.thelocal.de/20180621/germany-made-billions-on-greeces-debt-crisis-berlin-confirms Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:35:56 +0200 germany-made-billions-on-greeces-debt-crisis-berlin-confirms Syrians with a German residence permit are increasingly traveling to Turkey, often with the help of smugglers, an investigative report from German broadcaster NDR reveals. https://www.thelocal.de/20180412/report-increasing-numbers-of-syrian-refugees-in-germany-returning-to-turkey Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:54:20 +0200 report-increasing-numbers-of-syrian-refugees-in-germany-returning-to-turkey The German ability to chomp down white asparagus is second to none in the entire world. Thanks to the Greeks, they don’t need to go cold turkey in the coldest months of the year. https://www.thelocal.de/20180320/how-greek-farmers-feed-germanys-asparagus-habit-through-the-winter Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:44:12 +0100 how-greek-farmers-feed-germanys-asparagus-habit-through-the-winter Greece on Saturday freed two German journalists who had been arrested at the border with Turkey for allegedly entering a restricted area, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.de/20180311/greece-frees-german-tv-journalists Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:13:01 +0100 greece-frees-german-tv-journalists Greek police will help bolster airport checks in Germany in a dispute over hundreds of passengers allegedly caught flying out of Greece with falsified papers, a police source told AFP. https://www.thelocal.de/20171123/greek-police-to-help-german-airports-catch-migrants-with-fake-papers Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:29:36 +0100 greek-police-to-help-german-airports-catch-migrants-with-fake-papers Germany's hardline former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble on Wednesday said he would have found it far from easy to impose on his country austerity measures like the ones he helped design for Greece. https://www.thelocal.de/20171025/schuble-admits-he-wouldve-dreaded-imposing-greek-austerity-on-germany Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:55:28 +0200 schuble-admits-he-wouldve-dreaded-imposing-greek-austerity-on-germany Germany's bone-hard stance on Europe's response to dealing with Greece's debt mountain has hardly endeared it to a nation labouring under the effects of austerity that multiple bailouts have engendered. https://www.thelocal.de/20170919/greeks-brace-for-more-merkel-worrying-about-potential-sway-of-liberal-allies Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:48:31 +0200 greeks-brace-for-more-merkel-worrying-about-potential-sway-of-liberal-allies Credit and bond purchases that benefited Greece also brought in revenues to Germany, to the tune of €1.34 billion, according to a media report on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170712/germany-made-more-than-1-billion-from-helping-out-greece-report Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:00:55 +0200 germany-made-more-than-1-billion-from-helping-out-greece-report A large majority of Europeans have a positive view of Germany, while seeing Berlin as still having too much power in EU affairs, a new survey shows. https://www.thelocal.de/20170616/europeans-see-germany-favourably-but-think-it-has-too-much-power Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:38:16 +0200 europeans-see-germany-favourably-but-think-it-has-too-much-power Greece and Germany have agreed to slow the reunification of refugee families divided between the two nations during their scramble to safety, according to a leaked letter published on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170529/greece-germany-agree-to-slow-refugee-family-reunification-report Mon, 29 May 2017 19:03:48 +0200 greece-germany-agree-to-slow-refugee-family-reunification-report Update: A Greek far-left group on Thursday claimed it sent a parcel bomb to the German finance ministry, over six years after waging a similar campaign against European officials. https://www.thelocal.de/20170316/explosive-parcel-at-german-ministry-sent-from-greece Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:10:12 +0100 explosive-parcel-at-german-ministry-sent-from-greece The Greek debt crisis is back on the agenda again. With Athens needing yet more money to pay off its huge loans, Germany is once again being accused of prolonging the Hellenic tragedy. https://www.thelocal.de/20170221/heres-why-germany-is-so-tough-on-greece-over-its-debts Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:48:33 +0100 heres-why-germany-is-so-tough-on-greece-over-its-debts