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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Cabinet approved legislation Wednesday that allows for lockdown restrictions during the fall and winter.

The German government have utilised a loophole to allow ministers to escape their own COVID lockdown rules forcing people to wear masks on flights.

Over half of households in Germany will be left living paycheck to paycheck or worse as a result of the country’s gas crisis, the head of a savings bank has warned.

BERLIN (AP) – German leader Olaf Scholz has denied intervening on behalf of a private bank embroiled in a tax evasion scam when he was mayor of the northern city of Hamburg, allegations that have dogged him since before he took office as chancellor last year.

At least one Ikea in Germany has told its customers not to eat french fries, with the massive corporation complaining that the food is bad for the climate.

BERLIN — Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments this week that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians.

Swedish electricity prices have increased 400 per cent since last year as costs for other goods such as food and alcoholic beverages continue to rise as well.

The head of Poland’s central bank has claimed that Germany is eyeing up ways of seizing territory lost to Poland after the end of the Second World War.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas told Germans on Tuesday, in the presence of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts.”

Police in Germany said one person has died and nine were seriously injured after a self-driving test car veered into oncoming traffic.

The German Air Force, known as the Luftwaffe, is heading Down Under for the first time and will join Exercise Pitch Black 2022 across the skies of northern Australia in coming days.

German police have identified four shisha-smoking Iraqi migrants as suspects in a forest fire in Saxony that took place last month and devastated the Saxon Switzerland National Park.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – On a day of give and take, Western nations made more pledges to send arms to Ukraine while the European Union’s full ban on Russian coal imports kicked in Thursday, adding to the sanctions against Moscow that intelligence claims are hurting its defence exports.

Authorities alleged the teenager, who lived in Germany as an asylum seeker, attacked officers with a knife at a youth support centre in Dortmund.

Germany has agreed to take as many as 3,500 migrants from Italy in the first use of a European Union migrant redistribution scheme.

A supermarket chain’s decision to sell food products styled after a former communist dictatorship has sparked anger from critics.

Plans to introduce a colour-coded vaccine status app in Germany have been criticised as an assault on freedom and akin to Communist China.

Riots resulting from gas shortages are to make anti-lockdown protests look like a “children’s birthday party”, one official has said.

Germany’s dependence on China — now its largest trading partner — makes it incredibly vulnerable to a future east-west trade war.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ emails were reportedly seized by investigators in the probe into the “Cum-Ex” tax fraud scheme.

Germany’s Antifa-linked Interior Minister has threatened the public with consequences should they decide to like posts she disapproves of on social media.

Germany can’t close its nuclear plants quick enough, but France is working to keep theirs online, temporarily setting aside green rules.

In a bid to solve delays in the country’s airports, Germany is to do what it does best: bring in more migrants, mostly from Turkey.

German state television has been accused of editing in black clouds of smoke over a nuclear power station in a report on the ongoing energy crisis.

Germany’s lockdown-loving health minister has reportedly agreed with authorities a package of COVID crazy restrictions to be forced on the population over the next six months.

Just under 1,000 elementary schools in a single region of Germany are of a migrant background, official data has revealed.

In a demonstration of Germany’s “green energy” agenda failures, a coal-fired power plant will be reconnected to the electricity grid.

A pro-migrant NGO called on the German government to stop deporting migrants to neighbouring Poland, arguing the country treats them poorly.

The number of married young adults in Germany has fallen to a record low, the country’s official statistician has revealed.

Germany’s green push to move from carbon fuels and nuclear energy to renewables has “failed”, a state Prime Minister has declared.

Inflation within the Eurozone has hit yet another record high as the currency bloc struggles to deal with the ongoing gas crisis.

The socialist Prime Minister of Spain has told the public to ditch their ties to deal with the heat amid the energy crisis gripping Europe.

The Greek government has called on Germany to halt the sale of attack submarines to Turkey, arguing that the sale could upset the naval balance of power in the region as tensions with the Islamist-led country remain high.

The German govt has delivered three Gepard tanks to Ukraine, a considerable step up from its donation earlier in the war of 5,000 helmets.

Open borders loving states within the European Union have been forced to set up tent cities after running out of places to put migrants.

The German gov plans to reduce incentive payments for buyers of electric cars and end incentives for buying plug-in hybrids.