Long delays in issuing passports as the holiday season begins are causing frustration, according to an association that represents German towns and cities. “There are rumbles in the cities’ passport and identity document sections,” association head Helmut Dedy told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland German media group on Sunday. “It is currently taking up to eight weeks…
Germany winger Leroy Sané has thanked the home fans for their big support at Euro 2024 where the team was knocked out in the quarter-finals by Spain. To be so close and still fail is incredibly painful,” Sané said on platform X on Sunday in the wake of Friday’s 2-1 extra-time defeat from Mikel Merino’s…
More than 300,000 people have joined an online petition calling for a rematch of Germany’s Euro 2024 quarter-final against Spain because of alleged referee mistakes including the Marc Cucurella handball incident. The initiator of the petition on the change.org website, Erik V, explained his move with several wrong calls from English referee Anthony Taylor during…
The proposed increase in defence spending earmarked in Germany’s 2025 draft budget is nowhere near enough to “do justice” to the current security situation nor to “Germany’s responsibility to the world,” the head of the German Armed Forces Association has said. André Wüstner, the chairman of the organization which represents the interests of some 200,000…
compromise over the 2025 federal budget arrived at by his three-party coalition in the face of scorn from the opposition. A way had been found to fund assistance to Ukraine, while also financing Germany’s own needs, Scholz told a meeting of his Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Weimar to the south-west of Berlin. “And for…
