Politics

In Berlin, some 1000 members of Jewish congregations from all over Germany came together for the annual Jewish Community Day on Thursday. Political discussions were the focus on the first day of the event.

After an intense round of negotiations in Berlin, Germany has the final version of its 'Climate Package'. The Berlin Bundestag and the Bundesrat will approve it…

Great Britain's Conservative Party got an absolute majority in yesterday's general elections. In Germany, high-ranking politicians commented on Boris Johnson's…

Germany's U.N. Ambassador Christoph Heusgen will be included in the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 'list of worst outbreaks of antisemitism' this year. In March, he had compared Hamas' attacks on Israelis to the destruction of terrorists' homes.

Hamburg is the next federal state within Germany to hold elections for its legislative assembly. The wind of change is reaching the north too. On February 23rd,…

As expected, Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans were elected leaders of the oldest party in Germany, the SPD. The new team wants to take the Social…

Many cities in Germany have implemented zones in which the use of firecrackers and fireworks is banned on New Year's Eve. Berlin just added two more of them. Bans of this kind are being imposed for several reasons.

For the first time during her 14-year term as Chancellor, Angela Merkel has visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland, which is a memorial today.…

For Germany, or any other country, becoming eco-friendly or climate-Neutral is not for free. Making headway in this regard does cost money. And it is time to…

Germany's Federal Prosecutor's office does not usually take over murder cases, unless there are big political implications. And Chancellor Angela Merkel does not usually get involved. In this case she did.