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French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the right to abortion to be added to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights

A Turkish-linked mosque in the German city of Chemnitz was heavily damaged following a major fire, which may have been arson.

Germany’s justice minister on Monday launched a drive to remove from the country’s criminal code a ban on doctors “advertising” abortion services, a provision that he said is untenable.

Germany is now ‘dramatically behind’ its CO2 emissions target shortly after it abandoned half of its remaining nuclear plants, calling the tech ‘dangerous’.

A German court has convicted a former Syrian secret police officer for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus.

The number of suicide attempts amongst children increased threefold during Germany’s second lockdown, according to estimates in a university hospital report.

Germany’s president called for a thorough debate over plans for compulsory coronavirus vaccinations for all adults in the country.

Dozens of rallies have taken place across Germany, as tens of thousands continue to protest COVID restrictions in the federal republic.

Vaccinated and recovered people in one German city will soon be able to wear a special ribbon in order to convey their status to retail workers.

Lithuania has no intention of backing down from its struggle with Communist China or its support for Taiwan, an MP has told Breitbart News.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s leaders agreed Friday to toughen requirements for entry to restaurants and bars, and decided to shorten quarantine and self-isolation periods as the omicron variant spreads fast through the country.

The German city of Hamburg is to ban unboosted people who do not have a negative COVID test from restaurants

More than 100,000 took to the streets in Germany to protest the nation’s lockdown rules, as the eastern FDP demand a clampdown.

Since the start of the migrant crisis along Poland’s border, over 11,000 migrants have managed to make their way to Germany.

A number of EU member states have echoed Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in their criticism of a new ‘green’ label for nuclear power.

BERLIN (AP) – The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc´s plans for a climate-friendly future.

A German Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has suggested that the founders of BioNTech, which developed the Pfizer vaccine, should be put on Euro currency banknotes.

The German government is to support France in the goal of making the European Union “more sovereign”, according to the country’s new foreign minister.

Germany is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country will shut all nuclear plants.

The EU is currently drafting a law that will allow the government in Brussels to seize private goods in a pandemic emergency.

Germany’s highest court said that officials must craft rules to protect disabled people if hospitals triage patients during the pandemic.

BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged two Afghan brothers with murder over the July killing of their sister, whom they allegedly wanted to punish for her Western way of life.

An industry group has said that German retail trade over Christmas has been ‘dramatically bad’ due to the country’s COVID Pass rules.

In the first nine months of 2021, Germany saw a 33 per cent increase in the number of asylum seeker arrivals.

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the country’s governing ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has accused Germany of trying to create a “Fourth Reich” by pushing for a European Union federal state.

Of all the folk tales, pageants, legends, and fables to accompany Christmas, few have achieved the level of immortality as “The Nutcracker.”

Germany’s health minister said he expects a surge in coronavirus cases around New Year’s and people will likely need a fourth vaccine.

U.S. Army Private First Class Tyrel Miller came home to Wisconsin from his deployment in Germany to surprise his family for Christmas, according to WLUK.

Leading political figures in Germany have signalled that they would support a vaccine registry to collect a list of those vaccinated.

VIENNA (AP) – Germany is tightening travel restrictions for people coming from Britain in response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant there.

Members of Germany’s center-right CDU have chosen prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as its new leader.

Frustrated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters Wednesday that the European Union and Biden administration’s tactic of threatening Russia with sanctions in the event that Moscow invades Ukraine “won’t matter to anyone.”

Olaf Scholz has said that he remains “chancellor of the unvaccinated”, despite his support for mandatory vaccination.

Germans protesting against the country’s Wuhan coronavirus restrictions clashed with police on Sunday, as the government looks to crack down on encrypted messaging apps used to organise the demonstrations.

Several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks.

VIENNA (AP) – Children from 5 to 11 years old will be eligible to begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses this week in Berlin, health officials said Sunday, joining other German states in opening up appointments to younger children.