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Some injured seriously and others possibly fatally when a driver ploughed car into a trade union rally in Munich on Thursday morning. 

A collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg left one person dead and 25 injured, six of them seriously, police said.

A ‘February surprise’ has been dropped on the chancellor candidate for the far-left German Green party, Robert Habeck, with a prominent media researcher accusing the finance minister of plagiarism in his dissertation with just two weeks left before voters head to the polls.

The leader of the centrist Christian Democratic Union doubled down on his vow to not form a coalition with the populist Alternative for Germany as he squared off with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a debate held two weeks before Germans head to the polls for a federal election.

Hundreds of sabotaged cars in Germany may have actually been attacked by Russian agents in a plot to discredit Green politics, reports claim.

The Munich summit is a regular forum for global international security discussions which has taken on new significance amid the Ukraine war.

Germany’s failed green agenda is in the sights of leading leftist populist Sahra Wagenknecht as her upstart party laid out its campaign promises this week ahead of the federal election in little over two weeks.

Members of Germany’s top two populist parties, the AfD and BSW, have both been banned from this year’s Munich Security Service, which ironically justified the decision by claiming that populists did not believe in “peace through dialogue”.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he wants Ukraine to trade “rare earths and other things” for continued American military and financial support.

The U.S. trade relationship with the UK “can be worked out” but the “atrocity” of Europe has made tariffs inevitable, he said. 

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.

There are reportedly concerns that putting too many troops in Ukraine would leave Europe’s northeast border with Russia perilously unguarded.

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.

Federal Election poll sees dramatic shifts, with the governing left-globalists experiencing a “statistically significant decline”.

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.

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp.

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.