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 Germans spend more than a third of their household budgets on keeping a roof over their heads each month, new figures showed on Thursday – an increase of almost three percentage points in recent years. https://www.thelocal.de/20150910/housing-creeps-over-13-of-germans-monthly-budgets Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:11:28 +0200 housing-creeps-over-13-of-germans-monthly-budgets Shoppers who go into the red on their bank account over the Yuletide period have received some early festive good news, with a plan to clarify Germany's complex rules on overdrafts. https://www.thelocal.de/20141222/good-news-for-your-christmas-overdraft-banking-mortgages-heiko-maas-interest-rates-sparkasse Mon, 22 Dec 2014 13:35:00 +0100 good-news-for-your-christmas-overdraft-banking-mortgages-heiko-maas-interest-rates-sparkasse