Germany

The German authorities carried out approximately 830.000 border checks for Euro 2024 and 603 people were arrested for offences ranging from non-payment of alimony to murder, from international terrorism to right-wing and left-wing extremism

A German administrative court has ruled that the far-right Alternative for Germany party is allowed to use the public facility of the Grugahalle for the AfD party's federal conference on 29 and 30 June

In 2023, the German police recorded over 256.000 acts of violence in which the alleged perpetrators were family members, partners or ex-partners, a 7% increase over the previous year

Crimes against politicians have increased over the last year in Germany, a trend confirmed by the recent attacks against a couple of prominent politicians during their election campaign

The far-left Die Linke party have called for a cap on the price of doner kebabs, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admitted that the issue of what has been dubbed 'donerflation' is put to him 'everywhere he goes'

The country will send a new frigate to the Red Sea in August to help secure maritime traffic, which has now been disrupted for months due to Houthi attacks

The Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, has approved the so-called "self-determination law," a provision that makes it easier to change gender identity and name at the registry office

The parliamentary groups in current governing coalition are pushing for a strong legal framework to clarify the use of social media by parliamentary groups in the Bundestag to ensure transparent and legal use of taxpayers' money allocated to these groups

Those seeking German citizenship may soon have to answer test questions on anti-Semitism, Germany's commitment to Israel, and Jewish life in Germany

Citizens can now register online to indicate their willingness to donate organs after death; until now, people could only register such decisions on paper or on an organ donor card

In a long-running dispute over asylum policy between the German federal states and the central government, the states made a request to outsource asylum applications to third countries

The approximately seven million Germans - almost one-tenth of the population - who, according to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, habitually consume cannabis will be able to legally purchase cannabis 'for recreational use' from 1 April