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German Insolvencies Fall for First Time in Years
Germany’s corporate insolvency rates experienced a notable decline in November, marking the first time in three and a…
Retirement Age Tied to Work Years Sparks Outcry
The proposal to decouple the German retirement age from chronological age and instead link it to years of…
Link Pensions to Work Years
A key advisor to German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil is advocating for a significant recalibration of the nation’s…
Youth Leader Defends New Year’s Tweet
The former chair of the Green Youth, Jette Nietzard, has delivered a stark assessment of her year in…
Police Shoot Girl Twelve Years Old
A deeply troubling incident in Bochum has triggered widespread condemnation and raised serious questions about police procedure and…
Rail Fares Frozen First Time in Years
The German national railway, Deutsche Bahn (DB), is enacting a significant and potentially politically charged, shift in its…
Germany Still Divided After 35 Years
Thirty-five years since German reunification, substantial regional reservations persist between eastern and western Germany, according to a recent…
Scholz Celebrates 50 Years With SPD
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) is planning a formal recognition of former Chancellor Olaf Scholz to mark the…
Dortmund Elects First CDU Mayor in 78 Years
Following the initial round of municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, run-off elections were held in numerous municipalities…
Sarkozy Faces Five Years Behind Bars
A Paris court has delivered a five-year prison sentence for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, concluding a lengthy…
ZDF New Year’s Gala Relocates to Hamburg
The longstanding New Year’s Eve gala produced by German broadcaster ZDF is relocating from Berlin to Hamburg. Sources…
Bolsonaro Faces Over 27 Years in Prison>
A former Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison by…
Gas Prices Plummet To Year’s Low
Consumers switching or entering new gas contracts are currently benefiting from significantly lower prices compared to the beginning…
Civil Servants Should Work Five Years Beyond Retirement Age
The Pestel Institute has entered the debate surrounding working life and retirement age with a proposal aiming for…
Party Membership Surges After 35 Years
New data reveals a significant shift in the landscape of German political affiliations. For the first time in…
German Deaths Dip Below Last Year’s Level
Preliminary data released by the Statistical Federal Office (Destatis) on Wednesday indicate a significant decrease in mortality rates…
Military Deployment Extended for 5 More Years!
In a decisive vote, the German Bundestag has extended the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Bosnia and Herzegovina,…
Railway Delay: Germany’s High-Speed Dreams Derailed by Four Years
Germany’s Railway Network Renovation Delayed by Four Years The German railway network renovation, initially planned to be completed…
First Decline in Employment in Years
According to a recent study by the Institute of the German Economy (IW Köln), the German retail industry…
Club World Cup to Become the New Normal in 10 Years, Says Former Bundesliga Star
A former Bundesliga player, Christoph Kramer, expects the controversial 32-team club football world cup in ten years to…
1 in 5 Shuts Down in Just 15 Years!
Germany’s Pharmacy Count Continues to Decline The number of pharmacies in Germany has been steadily decreasing over the…
Minister’s Silence Sparks Fears of a New Year’s Eve Crackdown
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has yet to publicly announce a stance on a potential fireworks ban for…
Coffee Crisis: Prices Skyrocket by 31.2% in 4 Years – What’s Behind the Jolt?
Consumer Prices for Coffee Rise Sharply in Germany According to the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the prices…
Record 249,901 Foreigners Get German Passports in 2024, a 24,806 Increase from Last Year’s Record!
Germany Sees Record Number of Naturalizations in 2024, with 249,901 People Gaining Citizenship According to data from 13…
Thousands of Travel Documents for Departure of Foreigners in Five Years
German authorities have revealed that in the past five years, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF)…
HEATWAVE APOCALYPSE: WMO Warns of Unrelenting Record-Breaking Temps in the Next 5 Years
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released a report predicting that the coming years will see continued heat…
Band Tops German Album Charts After 15 Years!
In the latest update from the German music charts, Linkin Park takes the top spot with the Deluxe…
Germany Grants Asylum to Just 350 Russians in 3 Years Amid War
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine over three years ago, only slightly more than 350…
Up 4,048 Euros in 10 Years!
According to data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) released on Tuesday, full-time employees in health and care…
55 Years Later: New Suspect in Shocking 1970 Munich Jewish Center Attack Emerges
Munich prosecutors are following a new lead in the unsolved arson attack on the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde community center…
China’s War Threat Looms in Just 2 Years?
Taiwan has a potential date mentioned for a Chinese invasion, according to a document of the Taiwanese Defense…
LAST CALL: Iconic Jelmoli Department Store Shuts its Doors After 140 Years of Shopping Memories!
Jelmoli, the iconic Zurich department store, closed its doors for the last time on Friday after 126 years…
BUNDESBANK BOMBSHELL: German Central Bank Suffers Historic Loss for the First Time in 45 Years!
The German central bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank, reported a balance sheet loss of 19.2 billion euros for the…
Membership Numbers Double in Just Two Years, But What’s Behind the Boom?
According to preliminary membership numbers, the Left Party has seen significant growth, primarily due to strong increases in…
80 Years of Devastation, 1 Night of Fury Unleashed
On Thursday, the 80th anniversary of the near-total destruction of old Dresden by British-American bomber squadrons at the…
1,900 Jobs to be Axed in the Next Few Years!
Porsche, the luxury sports car manufacturer, plans to cut around 1,900 jobs in the coming years, according to…
25% Surge in 13 Years!
German municipal revenues from the real estate tax have significantly increased in recent years. According to the Federal…
Billionaire Tatjana Kim, Russia’s Richest Woman, Files for Divorce After 22 Years of Marriage!
Tatjana Kim and Wladislaw Bakaltschuk, the founders of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, have officially ended their 22-year…
Leipzig’s State-of-the-Art Hub Delayed for Two Years!
Leipzig’s Abhörzentrale, a joint project of Saxony-Anhalt and five other eastern German states, is not expected to be…
Merkel’s Successor Spends 39 Billion Euros on Military Exports in Just 3 Years!
The outgoing federal government has significantly approved more arms exports than the government led by Angela Merkel in…
Soviet Escapees from Mauthausen’s Darkest Secret Revealed 80 Years Later
In the spring of 1944, Soviet officers, captured as prisoners of war, were aware that their chances of…
80 Years of Silence Broken, Thousands of Innocents’ Lives Remembered
Each year, the Kaliningrad Oblast commemorates the victims of a heinous Nazi crime in former East Prussia. Since…
US Pushes for Elections by Year’s End
The US is urging Ukraine to hold presidential and parliamentary elections this year, particularly if a ceasefire is…
80 Years of a Tragic Mystery
Through the Red Army’s advance in January 1945, the land route for the Germans in East Prussia was…
Oslo Deploys Brigade at Russian Border for First Time in 70 Years
Norway to Establish Own Brigade to Strengthen Military Presence on Russian Border Norway’s Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide,…
Guns Galore: German Arms Exports Skyrocket in 2024, Doubling Previous Year’s Figures
Germany’s export of portable war weapons, including machine guns, mortars and anti-tank rockets, has nearly doubled in 2024…
Shocking Truth Revealed 5 Years On!
In the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany, Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Katrin Göring-Eckardt has called for a candid…
Virus Cover-Up: Shocking Truth Revealed 5 Years After Pandemic’s Start
Five years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virologist Christian Drosten finds it “remarkable”that China has…
Bodyguard of 23 Years Nominated as Secret Service Director!
Washington D.C. – The United States Secret Service has a new director, according to a post on former…
Nordrhein-Westfalen: 120,000 New Jobs Boon in 10 Years!
The number of employees in the public sector in North Rhine-Westphalia has increased by 16 percent over the…
Trump’s US: Four Years of Economic Armageddon?
Moritz Schularick, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), believes that Germany will likely…
‘Biodeutsch’ Named Word of the Year’s Worst
The word “biodeutsch” has been chosen as the “Unword of the Year” for 2024 by the jury of…
Three Lost Years of Safety Under the Red-Green Coalition
CDU Politician and former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, accuses…
80,000 Expelled in 2024, a Shocking Double the Previous Year’s Total!
Thousands of Migrants Deported in 2024 Russia has seen a significant increase in the number of migrants deported…
Foreign Fireworks Felons Flood Berlin’s New Year’s Eve Chaos
Berlin’s New Year’s Eve Sees Violence, Arrests, and Injuries Berlin’s New Year’s Eve celebrations turned violent, with 58…
Midlife Crisis: Swiss ‘Die Mitte’ President Steps Down After 9 Years
Swiss Politician to Step Down in 2025, Making Way for New Generation Gerhard Pfister, the 62-year-old Swiss National…
299 Injured, a Grim New Year’s Toll!
Two weeks after the Magdeburg Christmas market attack, the official death toll has been revised upward. According to…
New Year’s Bloodshed in Zurich!
Ukrainian Migrant Community in Switzerland in Turmoil After Violent Incident A violent altercation in Zurich’s Schwamendingen district, in…
Russia’s New Year’s War on Ukraine
Russian Forces Target Ukrainian Cities in New Year’s Eve Strikes, Reports Say Russian military forces carried out attacks…
Burning Ambitions: Berlin Fire Department’s Mixed New Year’s Eve
Berlin Fire Brigade Draws a Chaotic New Year’s Eve Balance. In total, 1,892 calls had to be handled…
BERLIN BURNS: New Year’s Mayhem in the German Capital!
Berlin Sees New Year’s Eve Marred by Violence and Chaos In the German capital, Berlin, the traditional New…
5 Killed in New Year’s Eve Explosions
Multiple fatalities due to firecrackers on Silvester night in Germany. In Hamburg, a 20-year-old man lost his life.…
Scholz’s New Year’s Message
A Call for Unity Amid Growing Concerns In a year that has seen a surge in concerns, German…
Unbroken Germany: Scholz’s New Year’s Call to Unity
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) called for social cohesion in his New Year’s speech, despite the various crises.…
BOMBSHELL: Old School Wins Again! ‘Telefon’ Stuns as Favored Method for New Year’s Greetings in a Digital Age!
The most popular way to send New Year’s greetings in Germany remains the phone. According to a survey…
Dax’s 12-Pound New Year’s Crash Diet!
The Dax started the trading day on Friday after the Christmas break with light gains. By around 9:30…
UNCOVERED: Driver Hid Keys to Damascus Embassy Secrets for Years!
Over more than a decade, a driver for the German Embassy in Syria has kept the key to…
Shock Reveal: Dynamic Electricity Prices in Last 5 Years a Total Turn-Off for Consumers!
Dynamic electricity tariffs have not paid off for most consumers in Germany over the past five years, according…
Pension Bombshell: Public Servants’ Golden Years Under Threat!
The number of public sector pensioners in Germany increased by 0..8% in 2024 compared to the previous year,…