“I am skeptical,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now said with regard to the new model of voluntary military service, which his government had agreed upon in August. It is to be debated and approved... Read more »
Beatrix von Storch, deputy chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag, recently made headlines with her visit to the United States in September 2025. In Washington, von Storch... Read more »
It remains unclear whether the peace plan unveiled in Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump will mark a turning point in the war in Gaza. Filmmakers from... Read more »
When the league stage of the UEFA Women’s Champions League begins on October 7, it will do so without the game’s most expensive player. France midfielder, Grace Geyoro, signed for newly-promoted London... Read more »
Reducing bureaucracy costs by 25% by 2029, offering more public services online and using artificial intelligence in government and in courts are some of the projects Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s cabinet agreed to this past week. Among the plans... Read more »
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the biggest opposition party in the Bundestag, is steadily gaining support, with some polls suggesting that the AfD has pulled ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s... Read more »
Following the end of World War II in 1945, a defeated Germany was divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the Allied powers: the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet... Read more »
(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||;w[q].push([“_mgc.load”])})(window,”_mgq”); Munich Airport in southeastern Germany shut down all flight operations for nearly seven hours overnight on 2-3 October after multiple drone sightings near the airfield, affecting thousands of passengers and forcing... Read more »
Elisabeth Kaiser is from Gera, in the eastern state of Thuringia. When the federal commissioner for eastern Germany was born in 1987, Germany was still divided. Two years later, the Berlin Wall... Read more »
It was a football game for the history books: On March 28, 1954, 53,000 spectators at Ludwigspark stadium in Saarbrücken watched Saarland battle West Germany to qualify for the Football World Cup,... Read more »