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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.

'Referendum Car-Free Berlin' is both the name and the goal of a group in the German capital. By 2027, it wants to ban most cars from Berlin's city center.…

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?

This past weekend brought new Corona rules to Berlin. Since they change all the time, remembering them at all times is almost impossible. So, what about masks,…

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…

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 from the federal states approved a compromise. Their last attempt to change the schedule of penalties had failed.