Macron makes rare state visit to Berlin to boost ties, defend democracy | Politics News

Macron makes rare state visit to Berlin to boost ties, defend democracy | Politics News

For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, a French president visits Berlin to warm frosty ties. Emmanuel Macron has begun the first state visit to Germany by a French president in 24 years, to boost ties between the two countries and to emphasise the importance of…

Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests | Israel-Palestine conflict News

ā€œWe are witnessing a great endangerment of academic freedom ā€“ and this has started since the beginning of Israelā€™s war on Gaza,ā€ says Cecilia, an undergraduate student at Berlinā€™s Free University. After her university published what she saw as a one-sided statement of support for Israel following the Hamas attacks…

Germany puts alleged leaders of suspected far-right coup plot on trial | The Far Right News

Germany puts alleged leaders of suspected far-right coup plot on trial | The Far Right News

Nine defendants, including Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss, go on trial in Frankfurt for ā€˜treasonousā€™ 2022 coup plot. A prince, a former MP and former army officers are among nine defendants who have gone on trial in Germany, accused of masterminding a conspiracy theory-driven plot to attack the German parliament and…

German ā€˜Reichsbuergerā€™ coup plotters go on trial: Is democracy at stake? | The Far Right News

German ā€˜Reichsbuergerā€™ coup plotters go on trial: Is democracy at stake? | The Far Right News

A high-profile trial of members of a far-right group accused of plotting a coup to overthrow the German government is set to begin in Frankfurt on May 21, amid concerns over growing ā€œextremismā€ ahead of European and national elections. The leaders of the so-called ā€œReichsbuergerā€ movement are expected to take…

The statistics behind Leverkusenā€™s historic unbeaten Bundesliga title win | Football News

The statistics behind Leverkusenā€™s historic unbeaten Bundesliga title win | Football News

Bayer Leverkusen is the first team in Germanyā€™s top-flight league to go all season undefeated. Here are the key numbers. Bayer Leverkusen sealed a historic unbeaten Bundesliga season as they lifted the title with a 2-1 win against Augsburg on Saturday. Here are the numbers behind the remarkable run of…

Germany boss Nagelsmann ignores Hummels, sticks with regulars for Euro 2024 | UEFA Euro 2024 News

Germany boss Nagelsmann ignores Hummels, sticks with regulars for Euro 2024 | UEFA Euro 2024 News

Germanyā€™s national football coach Julian Nagelsmann ignored the late claims of Borussia Dortmundā€™s Mats Hummels and Julian Brandt when he named a largely unchanged squad for the 2024 Euros. 2014 World Cup winner Hummels and midfielder Brandt have been key figures in Dortmundā€™s run to the Champions League final, where…

Court convicts German far-right figure Bjorn Hocke for using Nazi slogan | The Far Right News

Court convicts German far-right figure Bjorn Hocke for using Nazi slogan | The Far Right News

Hocke was fined for using a Nazi motto ā€“ illegal in modern-day Germany ā€“ during a campaign rally in 2021. A court has convicted one of the best known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of using a Nazi slogan in a speech and ordered him to…

Germany hopes to relive World Cup ā€˜fairytaleā€™ with Euro 2024 | UEFA Euro 2024

Germany hopes to relive World Cup ā€˜fairytaleā€™ with Euro 2024 | UEFA Euro 2024

As Germany prepares to host Euro 2024, the 2006 FIFAĀ World Cup ā€“ the last major international football tournament on German soil ā€“ still plays a formative role in the nationā€™s collective consciousness. Now widely known as the Summer Fairytale, the tournament is remembered as the moment a unified Germany shook…