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Is this actually Berlin? It does not feel like it. Not with those new curfews. This situation, experienced during a nightly bicycle ride, is surreal.

Next year, Germany's last nuclear power plants will be switched off for good. The three 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima made Chancellor Angela Merkel change her…

The three Senate parties, namely the SPD, the Greens and 'Die Linke' just elected their candidates for Governing Mayor. All of them have a chance, but the Greens are the frontrunners.

Germany's Infection Protection Act was just amended. Most of the country will be affected starting on Saturday, April 24th, 2021. These are the new rules.

The die is cast. Annalena Baerbock is the first candidate for Chancellor the German Greens ever named. Could she actually end up in the Chancellery?

In Berlin, President Frank Walter Steinmeier held a speech at a commemoration event for almost 80,000 people who have died of COVID-19 in Germany alone. The next of kin of some Corona victims spoke about the loved ones they lost, in place of tens of thousands of others.

Speeding or parking in no standing zones will be a lot more expensive in Germany. After months of arguing, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer and his colleagues…

The Berlin Senate just decided to start planning an extension to tram line M10. In a few years from now, it is supposed to take passengers all the way to Hermannplatz, a chaotic square in Neukölln. Those trams will have to cross a river and a canal. Besides, their tracks will run through rather narrow urban canyons.