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 Police in Berlin evacuated on Saturday night the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz, the target of a deadly terror attack three years ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20191222/police-evacuate-german-christmas-market-after-security-scare Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:41:58 +0100 police-evacuate-german-christmas-market-after-security-scare The city will mark the anniversary with a gathering for relatives and survivors at Breitscheidplatz and the the bells of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church will ring 12 times. https://www.thelocal.de/20191219/berlin-to-remember-victims-of-christmas-market-terror-attack-three-years-on Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:50:28 +0100 berlin-to-remember-victims-of-christmas-market-terror-attack-three-years-on The Government wants to relax licence rules so that car drivers can ride motorcycles that reach speeds of over 100km/h without having to take a test, German media reported Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190620/germany-plans-to-allow-drivers-to-ride-motorbikes-without-test Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:37:00 +0200 germany-plans-to-allow-drivers-to-ride-motorbikes-without-test German unions on Tuesday called for nationwide "warning strikes" in the public sector this month after state and local governments rejected their demands for a wage hike. https://www.thelocal.de/20180314/public-sector-workers-in-germany-to-strike-for-more-pay Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:45:17 +0100 public-sector-workers-in-germany-to-strike-for-more-pay German police have warned that Germany's Euro 2016 match against old foes Poland could be the next flash point for hooligan violence when they meet in Paris on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160614/risk-of-german-hooligan-violence-before-poland-match-very-high Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:57:25 +0200 risk-of-german-hooligan-violence-before-poland-match-very-high Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted on Friday that she had made a "mistake" in her initial reaction to the poem, but held that the investigation against the comedian should still be allowed. https://www.thelocal.de/20160422/merkel-admits-mistake-over-comedian-bhmermann-turkey-affair Fri, 22 Apr 2016 20:59:11 +0200 merkel-admits-mistake-over-comedian-bhmermann-turkey-affair Barack Obama's visit to Hanover on Sunday will be the first time that a US President has visited the Lower Saxon capital's fair. And officials are taking it quite seriously: banning waving out of windows and locking down roads. https://www.thelocal.de/20160422/obama-to-arrive-in-hanover-sunday-to-open-trade-fair Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:52:18 +0200 obama-to-arrive-in-hanover-sunday-to-open-trade-fair Germany is less of a "nanny state" than most of Europe when it comes to the everyday pleasures of boozing and smoking, a new report shows. https://www.thelocal.de/20160331/germany-among-best-places-to-booze-smoke-and-nosh-report Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:16:11 +0200 germany-among-best-places-to-booze-smoke-and-nosh-report Taxi-hailing app mytaxi will no longer be allowed to offer customers 50 percent off trips, a court in Frankfurt has decided, saying that the deals represent unfair competition. https://www.thelocal.de/20160119/frankfurt-court-bans-discount-taxi-rides Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:01:32 +0100 frankfurt-court-bans-discount-taxi-rides Can you imagine how Germany must have been before the successive catastrophes of the 20th Century? Now you don't have to – thanks to a new collection of rare colour images The Local has had a sneak peek into. https://www.thelocal.de/20151217/glorious-unseen-colour-photos-of-germany-in-1900 Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:56:55 +0100 glorious-unseen-colour-photos-of-germany-in-1900 An Airbus plane suffered an unusual accident at Berlin's Schönefeld airport in the early hours of Wednesday after it collided with a light mast on the taxiway. https://www.thelocal.de/20151202/mast-collapses-onto-plane-at-berlin-airport Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:58:57 +0100 mast-collapses-onto-plane-at-berlin-airport Criminals used so much explosive while trying to rob a bank near Berlin on Wednesday night that they blasted a wall and part of the roof off the building - and may not even have got away with any loot. https://www.thelocal.de/20151126/crooks-blow-roof-off-bank-in-midnight-raid Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:00:40 +0100 crooks-blow-roof-off-bank-in-midnight-raid German security authorities will be closely watching both known Islamic fundamentalists and far-right extremists who might join an anti-Islamic backlash in the coming days, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said on Saturday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.de/20151114/germany-watching-islamists-and-far-right Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:18:45 +0100 germany-watching-islamists-and-far-right Two young women from western Germany are being hunted by Turkish authorities on suspicion of involvement in a recent spate of terrorist attacks by Isis. https://www.thelocal.de/20151027/turkey-hunts-german-isis-ankara-terrorism Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:59:41 +0100 turkey-hunts-german-isis-ankara-terrorism Germany's most important stock market index continued to suffer the effects of plunging confidence in Asia on Monday, losing around four percent of its value after a sharp fall in early-morning trading. https://www.thelocal.de/20150824/dax-index-suffers-plunge-over-asia-fears Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:29:48 +0200 dax-index-suffers-plunge-over-asia-fears Gerhard Schröder has seven publicly funded, chauffeur-driven vehicles at his disposal, despite his highly-paid private work. https://www.thelocal.de/20121112/46109 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:45:00 +0100 46109 German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp said on Friday it had won a contract worth more than a billion euros ($1.3 billion) to build a number of fertiliser plants in the United States. https://www.thelocal.de/20121102/45939 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:11:00 +0100 45939 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Germany’s attitude to its Turkish minority on his arrival in Berlin to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a "guest worker" agreement between the two countries. https://www.thelocal.de/20111102/38589 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0100 38589 It's sunflowers instead of planes and kale instead of kerosene at the German capital's legendary Tempelhof Airport, site of the Berlin Airlift and now home to one of Europe's biggest and most unusual urban gardens. AFP’s Deborah Cole reports. https://www.thelocal.de/20110829/37247 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:33:00 +0200 37247 Daimler and Deutsche Telekom may have to strike a billion-euro compensation deal with the government over the disastrous introduction of a truck road toll in Germany more than six years ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20110718/36363 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:24:00 +0200 36363