MAGDEBURG, Germany—A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday. The suspect, who was in custody, is a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia who has lived in Germany […]
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 […]
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 […]
Business sentiment among German firms in China is hitting an all-time low. Companies are battle a slowing economy and growing competition from their Chinese rivals. According to the German Chamber of Commerce in China, more than half of German companies have indicated a downward trend in their industries this year.
HANOVER/BERLIN—Workers at nine Volkswagen car and component plants across Germany started strikes lasting several hours on Monday, bringing assembly lines to a halt as labor and management clash over the future of the carmaker’s German operations. Thousands gathered at the Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg. Demonstrations also took place at the Hanover plant, which employs around […]
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 […]
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 […]
WOLFSBURG, Germany—Volkswagen plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of staff and shrink its remaining plants in Europe’s biggest economy as it plots a deeper-than-expected overhaul, the carmaker’s works council head said. Europe’s biggest carmaker has been negotiating for weeks with unions over its plans to revamp its […]
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 […]
Germany is taking action to protect its domestic wind industry, as well the European wind industry, from being harmed by China’s dominance in the sector. Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck set out a plan to ensure a level playing field, upgrade cybersecurity, and reduce dependence.
President Joe Biden is en route to visit Germany, where he will discuss the Russia–Ukraine war. Germany is set to present him with the country’s highest honor, the Grand Cross special class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is attending three campaign events in the […]
President Joe Biden will depart for Germany on Thursday to discuss the war in Ukraine and other international challenges concerning the two nations. Biden originally planned to visit Germany earlier this month but delayed the visit as hurricanes hit the United States. The rescheduled visit offers the president a chance to meet with German Chancellor […]
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 […]
