Germany’s chemical industry is looking better than expected in the first half of the year, the industry association VCI reported in Frankfurt on Monday. This means that the forecasts for the year as a whole remain unchanged. Turnover is expected to increase by 1.5% in 2024 and production by 3.5%. In the first six months,…
The number of known cases of sexual abuse of children and adolescents increased in Germany last year, according to a police report published on Monday. However, as the police assume that there is a large number of unreported cases of this type of offence, this alone is not an alarming finding, the report states. In…
The European Commission launched an investigation on Monday to find out if German government state aid for Lufthansa during the Covid-19 pandemic breached EU rules. The investigation comes after a judgement from the EU General Court in May 2023 to annul the state aid awarded to the German airline worth €6 billion ($6.5 billion). In June 2020,…
Tino Chrupalla, the co-chairman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), on Sunday said there would be no “power struggle” between party leaders, as the party prepares for national elections in 2025. Speaking in German public broadcaster ARD’s annual summer interview, Chrupalla said his co-chairwoman Alice Weidel would be a “good candidate for chancellor,” while…
A memorial marking the deportation of Jews from Berlin during the Nazi era has been defaced with graffiti of a political nature, police in the German capital reported on Sunday. The memorial known as the Mirrored Wall is a Holocaust Memorial on a square in the Steglitz district in south-western Berlin. READ ALSO: Far-right German leader…
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will introduce internal border checks if it takes power in two states following elections in September, co-leader Tino Chrupalla told national public broadcaster ARD on Sunday. The anti-immigration party would also immediately suspend the mechanism agreed for distributing migrants between the 16 states, he said. “That for example would…
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…