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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.

In Berlin, the 'Al Quds March' will take place on May 8th yet again, unless the authorities ban it beforehand. The latter is exactly what Jewish organizations…

In Berlin, Interior Senator Andreas Geisel and Police Chief Barbara Slowik presented 51 new patrol vehicles they just received. They are supposed to improve the…

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.

Germany's Bundestag elections are coming up, and the conservative 'Union' parties have not picked their candidate for Chancellor. The decision is supposed to be…

On April 19th, 2021, the German Greens will announce the name of their first candidate for Chancellor. It will have to be the party's co-chairperson Annalena…

In Berlin, the U-Bahn train lines U1 and U3 are back in business. It took the public transport provider BVG a year to renovate an overhead railway that connects the German capital's Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain boroughs.

The Eichmann case is directly connected to the darkest chapter in the history of Germany and of mankind. Sixty years ago, the young state of Israel brought the…

In Berlin, the radical left is preparing its 'Revolutionary May 1st Protest'. Yet again, the city has to rely on its Police Department. Each year, the German…

In 1980, Franz Josef Strauss, the late chairman of the CSU, became candidate for Chancellor for the conservative 'Union'. In order to get there, he blackmailed his friends in Bonn. Forty-one years later, it will likely be the CSU's turn again. No blackmailing is necessary or intended this time.