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Germany’s former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness, officials announced.

Europe´s economy stagnated at the end of last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output.

Former Chancellor Merkel, who led Germany and the continent into the Europe Migrant Crisis of 2015 has made a rare break from retirement.

In what may serve as a pivotal moment of the federal election campaign and perhaps the future of German politics as a whole, the ‘firewall’ baring establishment parties in Berlin from working with the AfD broke down on Wednesday as Angela Merkel’s former party partnered with the populist party on a vote calling for migration restrictions.

Germany’s Chancellor tacitly compares Trump Greenland plan to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while France says it offered to deploy the army.

Denmark on Monday announced a $2 billion investment in Arctic security, implicitly acknowledging President Donald Trump’s criticism of the region’s vulnerability to Russian aggression — a vulnerability Trump wanted to address by taking control of Greenland.

A row over Germany’s open borders immigration system threatens to upend the political status quo ahead of the February general election, as the leader of Angela Merkel’s former party opened the door to passing restrictions with the help of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, sparking panic among the Berlin establishment.

Western nations deploying troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers would be “absolutely unacceptable to Russia”, their Foreign Ministry complains. 

The likely next Chancellor of Germany has categorically ruled out a coalition between his supposedly centre-right conservative party and the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), opting instead to partner with a leftist party.

Left-wing German leader talks tough after yet another migrant attack, expressing outrage the government — that he leads — did nothing.

The globalist “managerial” philosophy favoured by the European Union has lost, and Trump has “won”, a panellist at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos admitted.

At least two people have been killed, including a child, in a mass stabbing at a historic but now crime-plagued park in a Bavarian town. 

United Nations refugee commissioner Filippo Grandi reported on Saturday that almost 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria since Iran- and Russia-backed dictator Bashar Assad was overthrown by a jihadi insurgency in early December.

Morning-of-inauguration coverage loaded with dire predictions, accusations, and even unfavourable comparisons to dictators. 

Germany’s ambassador to the United States reportedly warned that Donald Trump’s incoming administration will undermine “basic democratic principles” and seek a “redefinition of the constitutional order.”

Chancellor Scholz said Musk’s support for the far-right in Europe is “completely unacceptable,” adding to his previous criticism.

Panel of linguists select ‘Unword of the Year’, decrying it for supporting “racist, biological form of nationality”.

The German Defence Ministry announced that it will no longer actively post on Elon Musk’s X social media site amid growing calls to censor the platform in Europe.

Defense ministers of Europe’s five top military spenders described meeting President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge as complicated.

Police are investigating suspected sabotage after persons unknown attempted to access the water treatment plant at a German NATO airbase.

Donald Trump can’t see the “bigger picture”, a top Eurocrat says, as Zelensky calls for Western troops to “force Russia into peace”.

German police stated most arrests were Germans, but leaked list of suspects suggests truth may not be exactly as authorities wish to portray. 

The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has begun to surge while establishment parties continue to slide as Germans prepare to head to the polls for a federal election in February.

Luca Meixner, a 22-year-old soccer player for the German club team SSV Reutlingen 05, has passed away “unexpectedly,” the club announced on Saturday.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will again call on allies to boost its air defenses at this week’s meeting in Germany, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes over later this month with a vow to end the almost three-year war quickly.

A man was shot and killed by German police in the state of Baden-Württemberg on New Year’s Eve after stealing an excavator and going on a violent rampage with the vehicle.

A man has been arrested after several people were injured Tuesday in an apparent Berlin knife attack, which resulted in two people being hospitalised.

Multicultural Europe with history of extreme New Year’s Eve violence including the harrowing Cologne mass sex attacks prepares for violence.

Musk promoted the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in unambiguous terms in a column, prompting the publication’s opinions editor to resign.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

City and its police department may be held criminally liable for failing to prevent last week’s Christmas market attack that killed five,.

It is time for democracy to find answers to economic stagnation, mass migration, and wars in Europe and the Middle East, the President said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Kurdish militias in Syria on Wednesday to either lay down their arms or be “buried.” On the same day, the Turkish military said it killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq – including members of the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the leading Syrian Kurdish force allied with the United States against the Islamic State.

As Brexit foreshadowed Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, the defeat of Kamala Harris and the Democrats this year was preceded by the fall of globalists in Europe, leaving limited options for any real challenge to Trump’s authority from across the Atlantic.

Rival protests took to the streets of Magdeburg on Monday evening, which had been the scene of an apparent terrorist attack last week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has developed a habit of biting the hand that feeds, the NATO Secretary General cautions.