BERLIN (CONVERSEER) – The head of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), Holger Münch, said more than 1,000 suspicious drone flights had been recorded in Germany so far this year up to mid-December. The agency has been compiling a nationwide assessment of suspected cases since the start of the year, drawing on all available data…
FRANKFURT (DPA, CONVERSEER) – German cyclist Georg Steinhauser said on Monday that he is feeling better after finally receiving a diagnosis of Lyme disease following a dramatic loss of performance. The 24-year-old won a stage of the Giro d’Italia in 2024 and was tipped for big things. But his 2025 has been dominated by an…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against a man who is accused of being a former guard at a Syrian prison under the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The man is “sufficiently suspected of murder, torture and deprivation of liberty as crimes against humanity,” the authority said in a statement…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – German exports to the US declined sharply in the first three quarters of 2025 as a result of significantly increased tariffs, according to an analysis published on Monday. The German Economic Institute (IW) said the automotive, chemical and mechanical engineering sectors were particularly affected. The value of exports to the US…
MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Only a small minority of German companies are confident about the coming year, despite slightly better economic prospects, according to a survey published on Monday. The Munich-based ifo institute said that just under 15% of companies expect their situation to improve in 2026. A sizeable majority, 59%, do not expect any…
LEIPZIG (CONVERSEER) – Tatjana Haenni has been appointed RB Leipzig CEO, making her the first woman to hold such a position at a German Bundesliga football club. Haenni, 59, will start on January 1 in the position that had been vacant since Oliver Mintzlaff’s departure three years ago. She will head RB Leipzig’s management board…
MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The National Football League (NFL) will return to Munich for regular season games in 2026 and 2028 which means that Germany will have a game every year until 2029. Munich’s Allianz Arena, the home of football top club Bayern Munich, previously hosted NFL American football matches in 2022 and 2024. This…
HAMBURG (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The Flightright legal services company that represents passenger compensation claims is not allowed to disparage Irish budget carrier Ryanair, a German court has ruled. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg prohibited the online company from claiming, among other things, that the airline was trampling on consumer rights, it said on Friday….
By Christian Ebner, dpa BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – A total of 6.3 million people in Germany worked for low wages at the point of calculation this year, earning a maximum hourly wage of €14.32 ($16.69), the Federal Statistical Office reported on Friday. The statistics are based on the month of April 2025, when salary averages…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The chief executive of chemical giant BASF sees no signs of deindustrialisation in Germany despite the country’s ongoing economic difficulties. “Industry in Germany will not disappear,” Markus Kamieth told the Handelsblatt business newspaper in an interview published on Friday. “We are an economic area with a high proportion of industry in…
