BMW and Daimler are aiming increase their clout in the shared-mobility arena by merging their DriveNow and Car2Go car-sharing companies. As well as fusing the car-sharing units into a joint company, they will also pool their app-based services, such as the MyTaxi ride-hailing app, and BMW’s ParkNow parking space finder.
Carles Puigdemont, the former president of Catalonia, is set to spend Easter in a jail in northern Germany. He was arrested Sunday night by German police, acting on a European Arrest Warrant issued by Spain, as he crossed the border into Germany from Denmark.
She’s been chancellor of Germany for 12 years, reduced to a caretaker for the past six months until she could form a new government. Today (March 21), Angela Merkel gave the first speech of her latest term to parliament, addressing the controversial topic of migrants and their place in German society.
Austin police reported on Wednesday morning that the suspect behind the spate of bombings in the city this month killed himself in his car with an explosive device as he was being pursued by police in Round Rock, a town 20 miles north of Austin.
Tesla has been pretty much alone in blazing a trail in the high-performance electric car segment, but it’s soon going to have some company. Porsche, the iconic German sports car maker, is gearing up to launch its new Mission E sports car at the end of next year.
One of the first orders of business for the freshly-formed government in Berlin next week was meant to be a vote on striking a law introduced by the Nazis in the 1930s, making it illegal for doctors to publicly say that they offer abortion services or abortion advice.
A labor lawyer, a detail-obsessed pragmatist, a lifelong member of the Social Democrats, Olaf Scholz is now set to become the second most powerful politician in Germany.
Women across Spain are taking a stand against gender inequality, sexual discrimination, violence, and the country’s macho culture today, downing tools in their jobs and domestic lives for a nationwide 24-hour strike under the banner “If we stop, the world stops.”
Alice Weidel, parliamentary leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is no stranger to the dark arts of publicity. The AfD’s election campaign stood out for its racist, sexist, and Islamophobic messages. For its pre-election online offensive, it enlisted the help of Texas-based Harris Media, which worked on Donald Trump’s campaign in the Republican primaries.
The German government and the country’s car industry lobby has hit back at Donald Trump’s tweet this weekend, where he threatened to slap an import tax on cars from the European Union.
German carmakers and diesel drivers were dealt a blow today, when the federal court in Leipzig gave the go-ahead for German cities to ban diesel vehicles that emit unsafe levels of nitrogen oxide from entering city centers.
Sunny Singapore topped the charts for the third year in a row in HSBC’s annual expat survey (pdf), just beating out Norway, which climbed four spots from last year to come in a close second.
Berlin’s wealth of museums, galleries, and nightlife is what expats love most about the German capital. A new survey from HSBC found 70% of expats rated Berlin as having a great cultural scene, putting it at the top of the culture rankings out of 52 cities surveyed, ahead of Buenos Aires in second place and London in third.
Tesla’s luxury electric sedan is leaving its German gas-powered rivals in its rearview mirror. The Model S outsold BMW’s flagship 7 Series and Mercedes’ luxury S-Class in Europe for the first time last year.
It’s been five long months since Germany’s 2017 general election flung the country into a state of political limbo and forced chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats (CDU) into trying to form the first ever “Jamaica” coalition between the CDU, the Free Democrats, and the Left party.
For some the word “Heimat,” which translates as “home” or “homeland,” may conjure up visions of beer, Lederhosen, and idyllic German landscapes. For others, it harks back to the dark era of national socialism in Germany. For many, it’s devoid of patriotic or nostalgic sentiment, a word simply used to describe the place they were born.
The volume of anti-Semitic crimes is not decreasing. According to a police report seen by the Tagespiegel newspaper, there were 1,453 crimes against Jewish people in 2017, around the same as in 2016, and up from the 1,366 in 2015. That’s an average of four per day.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is taking matters into its own hands and is launching its own online newsroom because it believes its not getting enough press or is being presented it in the way it would like.
It took more than four months, but Germany finally has a reached an agreement to form a coalition government.
When Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the engine that bears his name, jumped (or was pushed) over the railings of a ship bound for England in 1913, he couldn’t have had any inkling how his invention would eventually power the ships, trains, buses, trucks, and cars of the global economy.
When US president Donald Trump rolls up to the World Economic Forum in Davos later this month with his large delegation in tow, he’ll be preaching one message: “America First.” The president will use the gathering of elite global leaders to promote “his policies to strengthen American businesses, American industries, and American workers,” according to a White House.
Update: Mike Krieger, CTO of Instagram, has denied the allegations in the Globe and Mail report via Twitter:
Saturday Night Live had a surprise for audiences in its opening sketch of 2018, debuting Bill Murray as Steve Bannon in a sendup of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” sparring with Fred Armisen’s Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury.”
Nearly four months after Germany’s general election, chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) have hammered out a blueprint for forming a new government with the Social Democratic party.
