Salafist Muslims have been handing out free Korans across Germany in recent weeks. But the group’s radicalism has many politicians concerned — as does a recent video posted on YouTube that allegedly threatened journalists...
Iran has halted oil exports to Germany, according to Iranian television, in an apparent effort to strengthen its position ahead of a fresh round of nuclear talks with Western powers in Istanbul on Saturday....
Swiss arrest warrants issued over the weekend for German tax inspectors have sparked heated debate in Berlin over the ongoing tax evasion conflict with Bern. German commentators on Monday discuss how renewed tensions could...
(Reuters) – Joachim Gauck is poised to become Germany’s third president in just two years on Sunday after winning support from the country’s main political parties, but the feisty theologian may prove an awkward...
Imams in Germany have long tended to be older men who preach primarily in Turkish or Arabic. Now, though, officials are worried about a new breed of cleric: young, dynamic and followers of a...
BERLIN — Angela Merkel’s hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favors, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro...
“Who is Mr Schäuble to insult Greece? Who are the Dutch? Who are the Finns?” retorted President Karolous Papoulias, himself a teenage resister against the Wehrmacht in Epirus almost seventy years ago – though...
The interior ministers of Germany’s federal and state governments are in the process of re-examining whether they can — and should — ban the NPD. Since authorities uncovered the Zwickau terrorist cell and its...
