German parliament is set to vote for the second financial bailout for Greece amid signs of a new dispute within Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition over whether the debt-laden nation sho

Chancellor Angela Merkel said her coalition and the opposition had agreed on Sunday to nominate former East German rights activist Joachim Gauck as a consensus candidate to become Germany's next presi

Angela Merkel's hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favours, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro zone cr

The eurozone finance ministers have called off an emergency meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, which was intended to approve a USD 170 billion financial rescue package for Greece, raising new fears tha

Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook 'friends' to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state's interior minister.

The

A policeman from the former communist East Germany has been doing the rounds in his squad car for 22 years without a valid driving licence, a police spokesman said on Friday.

The oversight was discov

Indian-origin MP Sebastian Edathy, will head a parliamentary inquiry committee, which has been set up in Berlin to investigate a string of racist motivated murders carried out across Germany by a neo-

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti warned on Wednesday of possible 'anti-European' protests in his country if Rome's reform efforts were not recognised, ahead of a key meeting with Germany's chancello

The eurozone crisis seemed to vanish from the headlines for a brief moment as 2011 ticked over into 2012, but it is about to return with a vengeance.

The coming months will be decisive in determining

The new year will probably be worse than the last, but Germany, Europe's biggest economy, should be able to withstand it, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview on Monday.

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