New Year

Berlin's new Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey visited a fire department and a police station on New Year's Eve. She was informed about today's large operation. More than 50 firecracker ban zones needed to be guarded.

In his first new year's speech as Chancellor, Olaf Scholz asked the nation to stick together in order to defeat the Coronavirus in 2022. He also asked for…

For New Year's Eve, Berlin put in place firecracker bans in dozens of areas, on top of the firecracker sales ban which applies in all of Germany. The main goal…

New Year's Eve is some six weeks away. So far, the authorities have not decided whether there will be a sales ban on pyrotechnical products, as there was last year. Corona and firecrackers are not really compatible.

In Germany, First Ministers, First Mayors and the Governing Mayor of Berlin used their New Year speeches to remind people to keep on following the Corona rules.…

In Berlin, thousands of police officers from several federal states were on duty on New Year's Eve. Luckily, there were less problems than anticipated, but some…

Angela Merkel just recorded her last New Year's address as Chancellor. She said this winter was hard, and it would continue to be. And she slammed conspiracy theorists.

In the next 48 hours, thousands of policemen and policewomen will be enforcing assembly bans, Corona restrictions and 56 fireworks ban zones in Berlin. The…

Berlin just forbade the use of pyrotechnical products in 56 zones throughout the city on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. They include streets, squares and…

Berlin's Interior Senator Andreas Geisel fears an escalation on New Year's Eve. This is not only about fireworks and firecrackers. Corona deniers intend to stage yet another major protest that day. And there are even more problems.