Primary electors of the Christian Democratic Union, the country's main conservative party, have chosen Friedrich Merz, the current leader of their national party, as their candidate for chancellor in the country's 2025 elections

Interior Minister is considering adding war and disaster scenarios to school curricula; schoolchildren prepared for war and disasters would be a "sensible precaution", while others think it's conservative scaremongering

The Munich Philharmonic will not perform at the Flanders Festival Ghent tomorrow: concert was cancelled citing organizers' concerns over its Israeli conductor's Lahav Shani's attitude to the Israeli government; German said it's a "disgrace for Europe"

Germany's 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign got off to a disastrous start as they suffered a deserved 2-0 defeat to Slovakia

A central Berlin street with an unfortunate name referring to 'moros' has been renamed after Anton Wilhelm Amo, a Black German Enlightenment philosopher, who in 1734 became the first Africa-born scholar to receive a European doctorate