Former Health Minister Jens Spahn announced he will leave the leadership of the influential CDU Münsterland district organization, a move being interpreted within the party as a...

Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil is reworking parts of his proposed income-tax changes after resistance from the SPD’s left wing threatened support for the 2027 federal budget.

The federal government proposed legislation requiring international streaming platforms and television broadcasters to reinvest a fixed share of German revenue into local film a...

Environmental and consumer groups criticized major beverage producers, including Coca-Cola, over continued large-scale production of disposable plastic bottles and recycling per...

Municipal providers in Brandenburg and areas around Berlin are preparing substantial increases in water and wastewater fees to finance aging networks and measures against worsen...

Cologne authorities acknowledged procedural errors after a repeat offender seeking asylum was not deported because deadlines were missed and state-funded return assistance was i...

Opposition lawmakers accused senior CDU officials in Berlin of attempting to redirect millions of euros in cultural funding toward politically connected projects, citing interna...

Berlin Justice Senator Felor Badenberg asked the University of Cologne to formally examine her dissertation after anonymous allegations of improper academic work.

A Robert Koch Institute survey found almost a quarter of German adults experience chronic sleep deprivation or sleep disorders, with occupational-health experts linking the prob...

Industry associations say implementation of the European NIS2 cybersecurity directive will require thousands of medium-sized companies to make costly security upgrades or face p...

Free Democratic Party lawmakers are resisting parts of a planned intelligence overhaul, citing civil-liberties concerns over broader financial monitoring and digital surveillanc...

BSW leader Sahra Wagenknecht criticized efforts by established parties to maintain a government while excluding the Alternative for Germany, arguing that the arrangement has bec...