News We Liked
As with any news service, the ticker-tape snippets we run on our front page are frequently updated, but we think the old ones are often too good to throw away!
- Rail fares drop for 2020
- Germany ‘world’s second most innovative country‘
- German cities to trial free public transport
- Tourism increases by 3.6 percent
- Germany now has ‘best international image‘
- GNTB publishes list of top 100
- Berlin tourist revenue increases by €1 billion
- Europa Park wins world’s top theme park award
- New German law to hit social media
- Caves become Germany’s 42nd UNESCO site
- The new luxury waterside hotel coming to Hamburg
- Europa Park opens the world’s first ‘flying theatre’
- German comedy ‘best film of 2016’
- Germany ‘the most powerful passport‘
- Germany gets a load of new Michelin stars
- Guardian readers choose their ‘best of Germany’
- There’s a reason why there’s limited wifi in Germany
- Germany comes 1st in ‘best country’ ranking
- Renewable energy sources hit 32 percent of electricity
- Germany’s public finances at record levels
- Regional elections challenge Merkel’s authority
- Football Museum opens in Dortmund
- All DB sleeper trains to be disbanded.
- First staff free hotel opens in Germany
- Angela Merkel is Time magazine’s Person of the Year
- Germany to join the fight in Syria
- Merkel ‘walking on thin ice’ on migrant issue
- Spiegel’s take on ‘the excessive elite’ in UK
- Germans are ‘the largest ethnic group’ in the US
- Merkel ‘will run for a fourth term’
- Germany ‘strongest growth nation’ in European tourism
- German railways launches bus services to London
- DW launches English language channel
- ‘Homeland’ to be filmed in Berlin
- Motorway tolls are coming
- Tourism totals rise for the 5th year
- Martin Luther becomes Playmobil’s fastest selling figure
- Serious violence returns to German football
- A new 365km walking route along the Mosel opens this year
- Want to know more about Prussia?
- First there was Ostalgie, now comes Westalgie
- Germany introduces first ever minimum wage
- ‘Frauenquota’ law to set women in boardrooms at 30 per cent
- Mannheim, Hanover and Heidelberg become UNESCO ‘Creative Cities’
- Like a war zone: drive-thru of Berlin on New Years Eve
- The African king who rules his country from Germany
- ‘Ostalgia’ lives on
- Graphic animation of the growth of the Wall
- Germany knocks USA off top popularity spot
- The German village still divided, 25 years on
- German universities scrap tuition fees
- Germany 7th in top ten ‘most visited countries’
- Hitler’s birthplace to become Holocaust Museum
- Berlin’s popularity soars, now just 3rd in Europe
- Germans who live long live north and west
- Germany stages its first WWI exhibition
- Victory makes Germany ‘more likeable’
- Germany can now produce ‘half its energy from solar’
- Two years overdue: the Berlin airport fiasco
- UK now ranks 2nd (NL is 1st) for overnight stays in Germany
- Cannabis ‘should be legalised’ in Germany
- More art found at Munich dealer’s Austrian address
- Inside a German ‘mega-brothel’
- German bread seeks UNESCO recognition
- Germany worried about the effects of Wifi
- Hypnotic slo-mo of pax on the platform at Alexanderplatz
- Snowden interview from German TV
- Eurostar is to sell tickets to six German cities
- Hamburg plans to get rid of cars
- A German perspective on the Romania/Bulgaria immigration issue
- CityJet is to axe London City services to Paderborn, Munster and Nuremburg
- Gay German footballer sparks debate
- More discussions about introducing a motorway charge for foreigners
- You can now officially be ‘third gender’ in Germany
- ‘400,000 prostitutes catering to 1m men a day’ says the Economist
- Why are Germans ‘rude’?
- Tolls could be coming on the autobahns
- Hostel in Bonn leads the way in indoor caravanning
- Lufthansa invests in 59 new planes
- Gap between rich and poor ‘getting wider’
- Germany’s ‘ugliest buildings‘
- Should German bread be UNESCO-recognised?
- Wolves, wildcat and bison are returning to Germany
- Stats show Germany one of the cheapest countries in the Eurozone
- German railways invest in drones for war on graffiti
- Airline Germania to offer Gatwick to Erfurt from November
- Germany ‘most popular country in the world’ says BBC
- A bit of light relief from Flula
- Germany sees big increase in int’l hotel stays last year
- New travel brand specialising in tailor-made holidays to Germany
- Does Germanophobia still exist?
- Bundesbank study shows Germans ‘poorer’ than neighbours
- Baiersbronn (see our page in ‘South’) gets great PR from the NY Times
- The Sun (!): 10 reasons why we should love Germany
- The Telegraph asks: why do so few Britons head to Germany
- Cityjet announces new flights to Dresden from March
- Trivago study finds Dresden has ‘best hotels on the planet’
- Hitler satire is a surprise bestseller
- British students going Deutsch
- Berlin airport opening deferred again
- Broadcaster DW has handily packaged Ger’s UNESCO sites into routes
- Truffles galore found in the Black Forest
- Munich airport introduces ‘Napcab’ sleep pods for weary travellers
- Germany’s birthrate is the lowest in Europe
- Auntie Angie ‘doesn’t do dinner parties‘
- Alice in Wunderland exhibition at Hamburger Kunst
- ‘Forest Boy’ unmasked
- Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican till August
- East Germany a ‘godless zone’
- Leipzig zoo welcomes ‘world’s ugliest bird’
- How to irk a Dirk
- Al Murray knows why British tourists flock to Germany
- From 3rd June: New airport in Berlin and new LH flights from £39
- Yvonne the cow to get her own movie
- Oops, German finance minister a naughty boy!
- Frankfurt’s Städel Museum opens stunning new underground space
- Hail Hamburg: St Pauli among best places to live worldwide, says the Guardian
- Europa Park: wooden rollercoaster ‘Wodan -Timburcoaster’ to open on 31.03.2012
- Travel without leaving home courtesy of these German panorama pix
- God’s igloo: snow church completed in Bavaria
- Germany comes joint first (with Austria) in Holidaycheck hotel awards
- World record for strong beer won by brewer in Gunzenhausen: ‘Schorschbock’ has 57,5% alcohol!
- Sneaker Museum opens in Cologne. Whatever next.
- Angela Merkel, one of The Guardian’s Women of the Year 2011. Who would have guessed, when she first emerged, that she would become such a force in Europe.
- Have you come across Flula? We think he’s a bit of a hoot. There’s lots of him on Youtube, but this one is a good one too.