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.