Nearly two months after the general election, Germany has been plunged into political uncertainty after attempts to form a coalition government collapsed. There is now a distinct possibility that the country could face another election.
The German chancellor left a government building in Berlin on Friday morning at 4am (local time), after a 15-hour negotiation session with her potential coalition partners. She was back in front of reporters at the Christian Democratic Union headquarters before 11am, explaining that “it’s definitely going to be hard” to try and form a government—but that she believes it’s worth it.
The European Union has been aiming to strengthen ties between its countries’ armies since 2007. This week, it finally took a concrete step towards that, with 23 of the bloc’s 28 member states signing a defense pact.
Saul Luciano Lliuya is a farmer and mountain guide in the Peruvian Andes, and he’s worried that a glacier lake is at risk of melting and overflowing, causing damage to his home town of Huaraz. He’s already spent more than €6,000 ($7,054) on measures to protect the town, but now he needs another €17,000 to build more flood defenses.
It took 70 years, but the European Union finally signed a pact today (Nov. 13) agreeing to integrate military funding, weapons development, and deployment of European defenses.
VW is wise to the emotional power of its iconic past models. It announced in October that the I.D. Buzz electric camper-van concept—that looks like the beloved VW T1—would go into production for the US, China, and Europe in 2022.
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany today ruled that there must be a third-gender option on birth certificates to allow for the registration of intersex babies, as part of their constitutional rights.
Thousands of protesters gathered yesterday (Nov. 5) in the heart of German mining country to demand that Berlin make an immediate exit from fossil fuels. Mine operator RWE was forced to shut down its machinery as activists marched into Europe’s largest open-pit mine in Hambach, in the Rhineland, not far from Bonn, where almost 200 countries gathered today for the United Nation’s 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summit.
A group of car companies has taken an important step toward making electric cars a more viable option for consumers, by forming a joint venture to build hundreds of fast-charging stations across Europe.
It appears the real estate sector is no less susceptible to Brexit jitters than the financial one. As the months drag on with no clear UK plan on how to exit the European Union in sight, real-estate investors are eyeing up more predictable, lucrative places to put their money—and stable haven Germany is proving a major draw.
Former US president Barack Obama returned to the political stage at a rally for Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate on Oct. 19 and expressed his concern at the divisive, “nasty” state of US politics.
Catalonia formally declared its independence from Spain on Friday (Oct. 27) and the central government in Madrid hit back within hours, stripping the region of all its autonomy. Prime minister Mariano Rajoy triggered the never-before-used Article 155 of Spain’s constitution and, early Saturday local time, sacked the whole Catalan government and its regional police leaders, and called for fresh local elections.
As if the cost of the iPhone X wasn’t jaw-dropping enough. Priced by Apple at $999, Best Buy is charging an additional $100 for the phone, bringing the cost of the 64 GB model to $1,099 and the 256 GB model to a whopping $1,249 for customers who want to buy the iPhone X outright through the retailer.
Tensions are high this morning (Oct. 28) ahead of two big American white supremacist gatherings in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee. They have been organized by the Nationalist Front, who will be joined by other white-supremacy groups, such as League of the South, Vanguard America, Anti-Communist Action, and The Right Stuff.
German biggest carmakers have sometimes been accused of being asleep at the wheel when it comes to gearing up for the electric-vehicle age. However, they don’t seem to be short of ideas when it comes to autonomous-driving technology.
“Germany’s economy is powering ahead.”
Catalonia’s push for independence from Spain is getting messier by the day.
In honor of Wolfgang Schäuble’s last day as finance minister of Germany, more than 300 of his staff at the finance ministry in Berlin donned black and formed a circle celebrating Schäuble’s famous schwarze null (“black zero”)—shorthand for his fanatical mission to balance Germany’s budget.
The German government wants refugees to know the truth about coming to Germany by dispelling the lies they’ve heard from people traffickers.
Soon after Tesla fired hundreds of workers at its plant in Fremont, California, it managed to settle a problem with its German staff that could have been far, far worse.
In the world of luxury one-upmanship, “my other house is an Aston Martin” is a boast you might hear soon.
German chancellor Angela Merkel begins talks today (Oct. 18) to form a three-way coalition government with two parties—the Free Democrats and the Greens—who have historically been enemies.
Lufthansa has spread its wings further, clinching a deal to buy up more than half of its bankrupt rival Air Berlin, in what its CEO Carsten Spohr described as “a milestone in the history of Lufthansa and Berlin.”
Wind farms out at sea may be the answer to humanity’s insatiable demand for energy.
