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 A Pirate party politician in Berlin found dead on Monday is believed to have stalked and killed another man before committing suicide - and reportedly wrote about it to a party mate. https://www.thelocal.de/20160922/pirate-politician-wrote-to-party-about-murder-report Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:28:22 +0200 pirate-politician-wrote-to-party-about-murder-report UPDATE: Police are investigating whether a Berlin politician killed another man and then himself after the Pirate party lawmaker was found dead. https://www.thelocal.de/20160920/berlin-pirate-politician-found-dead-after-election-defeat Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:48:30 +0200 berlin-pirate-politician-found-dead-after-election-defeat The German election campaign has been accused of being dull and out-of-touch. To rectify that The Local has travelled a step or two beyond the mainstream. https://www.thelocal.de/20130920/52017 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:44:00 +0200 52017 Germany's Pirate Party are meeting just over four months before general elections to chart a course out of a crisis that has seen its poll ratings sink amid internal squabbling. https://www.thelocal.de/20130511/49651 Sat, 11 May 2013 14:22:00 +0200 49651 The Bavarian Pirate Party may now become known as the sex and drugs party after adopting a range of policies on the two political hot potato issues at their state conference over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20130429/49421 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:46:00 +0200 49421 A zombie apocalypse in Berlin would be dealt with by the book, in a typically orderly and precise fashion, city authorities said in response to a parliamentary inquiry from one cheeky member of the Pirate Party. https://www.thelocal.de/20130320/48651 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:45:00 +0100 48651 A deaf German politician who was mocked on Twitter after speaking on television said on Monday that she was thinking about giving up her position because of the insults. Her deaf voice remained, she said, a taboo. https://www.thelocal.de/20121203/46537 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:58:00 +0100 46537 Germany's Pirate Party resumed a two-day conference on Sunday, with a sluggish policy process threatening the upstart political force's momentum heading into the 2013 general election campaign. https://www.thelocal.de/20121125/46369 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:23:00 +0100 46369 The German Pirate Party plunged into chaos on Friday when two top party members stepped down, one of whom had prevented her book from being freely distributed online, outraging her anti-copyright colleagues. https://www.thelocal.de/20121026/45805 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:55:00 +0200 45805 The German Pirate Party has distanced itself from Rick Falkvinge, the Swede credited with founding Europe's Pirate movement, over his call for owning child pornography to be legalized. https://www.thelocal.de/20120910/44887 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:21:00 +0200 44887 Germany's upstart Pirate Party wrapped up a national congress Sunday aimed at distancing the powerful new political force from the far-right. https://www.thelocal.de/20120430/42249 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:17:00 +0200 42249 A leading member of the German Pirate Party has apologised for comparing the rise of the movement with that of the Nazi party in the 1930s. https://www.thelocal.de/20120423/42113 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:43:00 +0200 42113 The Pirate Party are under mounting pressure to act decisively against right-wing extremism in their ranks after failing to sufficiently distance themselves from anti-Semitic sentiments among their members this week. https://www.thelocal.de/20120421/42085 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:07:00 +0200 42085 Germany’s nascent Pirate Party has overtaken the Greens to become the nation's third strongest political force, according to a survey published on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120410/41845 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:45:00 +0200 41845 The German upstart Pirate Party could get as much as nine percent in a national election, comfortably putting it into parliament, a new survey shows. https://www.thelocal.de/20120402/41699 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:16:00 +0200 41699 Supporters of Germany's new Pirate Party briefly hijacked a conservative party website in a mock battle over internet savviness ahead of a regional election, the parties said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120329/41631 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:14:00 +0200 41631 German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party received an electoral boost on Sunday in a regional vote which also handed her coalition allies a big defeat ahead of national elections in 2013. https://www.thelocal.de/20120325/41557 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:39:00 +0200 41557 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives are flying high in a new opinion poll, which shows them garnering their best result since her beleaguered centre-right coalition took power in 2009. https://www.thelocal.de/20120208/40607 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:53:00 +0100 40607 Support for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) has slumped to two percent, according to a recent poll. https://www.thelocal.de/20111221/39647 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:36:00 +0100 39647 One member of the Berlin Pirate Party, which spectacularly entered the German political firmament this year, has waged a bizarre sex tape blackmailing campaign against fellow party members. https://www.thelocal.de/20111216/39555 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0100 39555