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Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been President of the Federal Republic of Germany since 2017. On January 5th, 2021, he will turn 65 years old. This is his Christmas speech for 2020, word by word.

The Irishman Patrick J. Murphy moved to Berlin last year. While working on a tech startup, he needed a job. So he sent an application to a rather large online…

The number of countries people can travel to Germany, the rest of the Schengen Zone and the European Union from is shrinking. And it might have to be decreased…

Everyone knows flying in the Corona crisis is different. But because Ryanair's customer service is not working, many passengers do not know what to do with the cabin luggage they booked.

Travelers who needed to catch some of the few European flights that are still taking off are witnessing unusual scenes. Those include empty tarmacs and…

In Brandenburg province, just outside Berlin, the British-Czech expatriate and sound artist Emika just finished her latest album 'Klavirni Temna'. It is a piano…

Animal Rescue Sofia runs a large dog kennel in Bulgaria. The organization accepts responsibility for stray dogs, abused, abandoned and ill ones, puppies and other animals. Here, a small team and some volunteers are on a mission impossible. As it turns out, love alone does not feed hungry dogs. Eva from Paris is part of the team at the Animal…

Reimagined abandoned spaces, third wave coffee shops, expressive street art covering walls which once divided and now unite: This paints a picture of Berlin’s…

This in an opinion piece by Sara Gordon. She is British-American and lives in Berlin. She volunteers for 'British in Germany' and has organized protests with…