MAGDEBURG, Germany—Germans on Saturday mourned the victims and their shaken sense of security after a Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people, including a small child, and wounding at least 200 others. Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at the site of the attack in Magdeburg […]
HANOVER—Volkswagen on Friday announced sweeping changes to its German operations, including more than 35,000 future job cuts and sharp capacity reductions in a last-gasp deal between Europe’s top carmaker and unions to avert mass strikes. Union leaders hailed the agreement as a “Christmas miracle” after 70 hours of grueling negotiations, the longest in the company’s […]
MAGDEBURG, Germany—A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring at least 200 others in what authorities suspect was an attack. The driver was arrested shortly after the car barreled into the market at around 7 p.m., when it […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Dec. 16, paving the way for an early election in February. Scholz, who called the vote, secured the support of 207 lawmakers in the 733-seat lower house, or Bundestag, while 394 voted against him and 116 abstained, leaving him far short of […]
WOLFSBURG, Germany—Volkswagen workers ramped up pressure on its management with further strikes at the carmaker’s German sites on Monday, as a fourth round of talks was set to begin in an increasingly bitter standoff over wage cuts and plant closures. The latest round of negotiations, which initially kicked off in September, comes as Europe’s largest […]
Three and a half months before Shen Yun Performing Arts is set to grace the stage of the Leipzig Opera again, tickets are already sold out. Leipzig, Germany—once home to Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and briefly Friedrich Schiller as he wrote his famous poem “Ode to Joy”—remains home to major cultural institutions such as the […]
According to Germany’s DPA news agency, the crew of a Russian vessel in the Baltic Sea reportedly fired signal ammunition at a German military helicopter conducting reconnaissance. There is no information as of yet on what vessel was involved. The Epoch Times has not been able to independently verify these claims. A defence ministry spokesperson […]
VILNIUS, Lithuania—A DHL cargo plane crashed on approach to an airport in Lithuania’s capital and skidded into a nearby house Monday morning, killing a Spanish crew member, officials said. The cause of the accident is under investigation. The head of the country’s firefighting service said that the plane skidded a few hundred meters (yards), and […]
Damage to two undersea fiber-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea—one between Lithuania and Sweden, and the other between Finland and Germany— should be regarded as sabotage, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday. “No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally. I also don’t want to believe in versions that these were […]
BERLIN—Eleven people were injured when a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt hit severe turbulence while travelling over the Atlantic, the airline said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, five passengers and six crew members suffered mostly minor injuries,” a Lufthansa spokesperson told Reuters in an email, confirming a report by the DPA news agency. “The safety […]
BERLIN—Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations, and official events commemorating one of the country’s most historic days on Nov. 9, 1989. It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today,” Chancellor Olaf […]
Germany has arrested a U.S. citizen on suspicion of providing China with U.S. military intelligence. That’s according to statements by the German federal prosecutor’s office on Thursday. Meanwhile, Italy is preparing plans to keep its technology out of foreign countries’ hands. The strategy targets Italian universities and research institutions.
BERLIN—German opposition parties and business groups on Thursday urged Chancellor Olaf Scholz to trigger a new election quickly to minimize political uncertainty after his rocky three-way coalition collapsed. The coalition fell apart on Wednesday when years of tensions culminated in a row over how to plug a multi-billion-euro hole in the budget and revive Europe’s […]
BERLIN—Germany’s ruling coalition collapsed on Wednesday as Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election. After sacking Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats (FDP) party, Scholz is expected to head a minority government with his Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, the second-largest party. He would […]
BERLIN—German police are searching for a man who abandoned a bag of explosives at a Berlin train station and ran away after being stopped by federal officers, according to police. “We are investigating all possibilities,” a police spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, adding that authorities had not yet been able to identify the suspect. Police […]
President Joe Biden is urging the United States’ European allies to continue supporting Ukraine as he prepares to leave office in January. Biden is currently in Germany, where he met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Oct. 18. The four discussed Ukraine and the future […]
HELSINKI—Two German men died when their World War II-era airplane crashed and caught fire in southern Finland minutes after takeoff, police said Thursday. The single-engine, two-seater T-6 Texan plane—a popular American military trainer aircraft introduced in the 1930s and now used mainly in air shows—crashed into a forest near the Rayskala aviation airfield on Wednesday, […]
BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany—A German court on Tuesday acquitted a man who is also under investigation in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in a trial on charges of unrelated sexual offenses. The Braunschweig state court acquitted the 47-year-old German national, who has been identified by local media as Christian Brueckner, of two counts of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Sept. 12 that if NATO allows Ukraine to strike inside Russia with Western-supplied long-range missiles, it would be tantamount to becoming directly involved in the war and would change the nature of the conflict. “If this decision is taken, it will mean nothing less than the direct involvement […]
MOHACS, Hungary/PRAHOVO, Serbia—The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War II have emerged near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river’s water level drop. Four vessels dating from before 1950 have also come to light in Hungary’s Danube-Drava National […]
