Fed up with inaction, Germany’s climate activists contest EU elections
German activist Lina Eichler regularly used to stick her hands to roads to block traffic in protest at what she saw as inaction in combating the climate crisis. Now the…
Germany’s legal weed sparks calls to protect young people
Smoking weed will soon be legal for over-18s in Germany, but addiction experts are calling for more prevention efforts to ensure young people are protected from the dangers of cannabis…
German far right seeks to exploit farmer protests
Brandishing suspect flags and even posters calling for opponents to be sent to the gallows, the conspicuous presence of far-right protesters at week-long tractor blockades by farmers have sparked fears…
German budget row prises open debt brake debate
Germany’s budget crisis has given new momentum to reforming self-imposed borrowing limits even among the opposition conservatives, as hunger for sorely needed investment trumps an earlier political obsession with fiscal…
From war bunker to penthouse to market flop: how Germany’s property boom ended
It has been a tumultuous year for one prominent German property developer: his efforts to sell his penthouse atop a Nazi-era air raid shelter have stalled, and just weeks ago…
All aboard: grocery bus caters to isolated German villages
In the western German village of Lohne, where the only grocery store closed its doors earlier this year, residents now do their food shopping on board a red-and-green supermarket bus…
Rewetting German marshes to blunt climate change impact
Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe’s largest reclaimed marshes. Just four years ago, the 10-hectare (25-acre) plot…
Mass fish deaths haunt river on Polish-German border
Fisherman Henry Schneider stopped work for several months after a toxic algae bloom hit the Oder river last August, decimating his catch. Schneider, 43, whose family has made its living…
Germany’s ‘China city’ seeks new direction amid fraying ties
Duisburg once touted itself as Germany’s “China city” due to strong links to the Asian giant, but it is now desperately seeking an image makeover as geopolitical tensions upend bilateral…
German Greens in doldrums over bitter compromises
When Germany’s ecologist Greens hold a mini-party congress Saturday, members of the junior coalition party are expected to vent their fury over tradeoffs that have sent the party’s popularity plunging.…
