Germany
11 Feb
As the country experiences more strikes, Germany's trade unions are reporting increasing membership numbers and engagement after years of decline.
11 Feb
Gabriel Attal is on his first trip abroad as France's new prime minister, visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Monday. The visit will be about more than just reinforcing Franco-German relations.
9 Feb
"Japa" is a Yoruba word meaning "to run away." That's what many Nigerian youth are doing in the search for greener pastures and better job opportunities. Chiamaka Ikeanyi, a young software engineer, moved to Berlin to build her career and experience life abroad. One lesson she learned: leaving home means also leaving a lot behind.
4 Feb
The German government plans to introduce a new law to make it easier for people to legally change gender. Using disinformation, the far-right actors are leveraging the issue as a way to push their own political agendas.
4 Feb
Germany phased out nuclear energy nearly a year ago. But even with the multi-billion euro problem of how to store radioactive waste, some policians are calling for new nuclear plants to be built.
4 Feb
Germany's railway workers have launched a nearly weeklong strike amid a labor dispute with Deutsche Bahn. DW explains what is behind the dispute and what it means for passengers.
4 Feb
Germany has seen an increase in the number of Imams who grew up in Germany and completed their religious training here. Muslim associations across the country are seeing a generational change and a general reorientation.
4 Feb
Trade union Verdi has announced a strike for some 90,000 drivers operating buses, trams and subway services in most of Germany.
1 Feb
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the two-state solution that Germany backs. Accusations against the UN's relief agency for Palestinian refugees are complicating matters even further for Berlin.
31 Jan
The controversial budget for 2024 is being debated in parliament this week. The squabbling and delays were just a foretaste of what is to come in 2025 when tax revenue will decline.
30 Jan
Amid mounting protests against the far right, calls are growing to ban the Alternative for Germany party. But German law sets the bar high for banning a political party.
30 Jan
Germany has been one of the biggest spenders in the world on everything from social welfare to foreign aid. But national income has fallen and Germany's government is dealing with a budget shortfall.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Berlin is firm in its resolve to defend the Baltic states against Russian aggression. His comments came on a visit to Lithuania, where German troops are to deploy permanently.
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Can you still send strong messages when you have rolled out the red carpet and chilled the champagne for a state dinner? China’s Xi Jinping feted in the French capital for his first visit to Europe since 2019, this despite trade tensions, spy scandals and insistence that he isolate Vladimir Putin over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How much has changed since a year ago when Emmanuel Macron was accused of lax messaging on human rights and Taiwan when he traveled to Beijing?