A number of railway construction projects will impact passengers in the German capital and its surrounding region this year.
A new online portal launched this January will allow internationals to apply for their German entry visas from anywhere in the world.
Five were killed by fireworks on New Year’s Eve, the Interior Minister speaks out against Elon Musk’s comments against the German President and more news on Thursday.
Five people died across Germany and a police officer was seriously injured from accidents linked to the powerful fireworks Germans traditionally set off to celebrate the new year, police said in a preliminary count.
Germany is set to start 2025 with an increasingly heated election campaign attracting attempts at influence not only on the part of Russia but also from Berlin’s traditional ally, the United States.
From a long list of tax and income changes to the beginning of electronic patient records and the increase in the monthly ‘Deutschlandticket’ price, here are the big changes coming to Germany in the first month of 2025.
In his New Year’s Eve address the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed the influence of ‘social media owners’ – a reference to Elon Musk. He appealed to a ‘majority of reasonable people’ to resist extreme opinions.
The German government, under fire for failing to prevent a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market, argued on Monday that the tragedy would have been hard to prevent and said that the suspect appeared to be mentally disturbed.
Police have begun responding to calls about unauthorised fireworks, the Foreign Minister says the Magdeburg Christmas market attacker was mentally ill, the Chancellor delivers the New Year’s address and more news from Germany on Tuesday.
New Year’s Eve in Germany is all about fireworks. Here are The Local’s suggestions for where to watch them across the country, from Berlin and Hamburg to Cologne, Munich and elsewhere.